Libraries – Page 2 – Global Postcard Sales

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Grad Slovenska Bistrica (Slovenia)
Not a public library, but a museum memory-room of a Slovenian writer. Mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and minor postal abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 33900052
Price: $2.00
Tampere Main City Library (Maximum Card) (Finland)
Unused Maximum Card no. 8, issued on 15 May 1987. Quoting the caption, “A design competition for a new city library in Tampere was held in 1978. The architects Raili and Reima Pietela received the first prize for their proposal ‘A Wood Grouse’s Courting Images’. On this basis the new city library was built in 1983 to 1986.” Grade: 1

Code: 33900053
Price: $7.00
Eldon House (London, Ontario, Canada)
Unused, aging Plastichrome card P42816. Grade: 2

Code: 33900054
Price: $1.00
Mexico DF, University City, Library and mosaic
Card possibly mailed during the 1960s and while the stamp is there, the postmark is not quite legible. Bilingual caption in Spanish and English explaining the murals in mosaic by Juan O’Gorman. Grade: 2

Code: 33900055
Price: $2.00
Turku City Library (Finland)
The card was made in 1992 but was mailed in 2013, with stamp, postmark, and orange Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 33900056
Price: $3.00
Pavlovsk, The Great Palace, Library of Maria Feodorovna (Russia)
Mailed in 2013 with three stamps and two very large postmarks. Fully captioned in four languages, which does take some space. Grade: 1

Code: 33900057
Price: $3.00
Lenin Library, reading room of the Theses Department (Belarus)
We’re listing this as Belarus though it is a Soviet-era card from Moscow. Captions in multiple languages, and the sender (in 2013, with torn stamp) explain everything. Grade: 4

Code: 33900058
Price: $3.00
St. John’s College Old Library, West Side
Internet card printed in Russia in 2012, and mailed from there in 2013 with three stamps and postmark. No, we’re not sure where the library is, though probably not in Russia … Grade: 1

Code: 33900059
Price: $1.00
State L.N. Tolstoy’s Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum (Russia)
One is expected to know where this is, and the clue is not in the caption but in the separate line about where and when the card was produced: Moscow, 1988. (That’s just a clue.) But the card was mailed in 2013 from Belarus, with a Belarusian “M” stamp and full Minsk postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 33900060
Price: $2.00
Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
An unused old card, whose elaborate and florid caption takes up nearly half of the message space. Grade: 1

Code: 33900061
Price: $5.00
Buchladen (Germany) (not a library)
Not a library, but a bookstore, on a card mailed in 2014 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33900062
Price: $1.00
Boeken 1
Not certain whether a library would stack its stock this way, but these are definitely books on a card mailed from Netherlands in 2014, with stamp, postmark, and orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 33900063
Price: $1.00
Hasmik Asatrian
Internet card, mailed from Russia with two stamps and postmark and assorted chops. Grade: 2

Code: 33900064
Price: $1.00
National Central Library, Taipei (Taiwan)
Mailed in 2014 with what looks like a pre-printed stamp (but we think it’s just the design), and a coloured postage meter label. Some postal abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 33900065
Price: $2.00
Monumental edifices (set of 5) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
Our scan shows four of the five cards in this set of five maximum cards dated 2009. Visible cards include Taedongmun Cinema, Electronic Library of Kim Chaek University of Technology, Okryu Restaurant, and Chongryu Restaurant. The card we don’t show has the Pyongyang Grand Theatre. Bilingual captions on the fronts. This is a nice set where everything comes together well, including clearer postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 33900066
Price: $34.00
Apeldoorn, CODA (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2014, with Priority label affixed, but none of the three stamps were postmarked. Value for money. Grade: 4

Code: 33900067
Price: $1.00
National Library, Minsk (Belarus)
Unique shot on a card mailed in 2014 with five stamps and two very faint postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 33900068
Price: $3.00
Irish Homes
Well then, the card’s photo came from a book called Romantic Irish Homes (R. O’Byrne) and the card may have been produced anywhere, but it was mailed from Japan in 2013 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33900069
Price: $1.00
Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche National Bibliothek (Germany)
Mailed in 2014, with two stamps, trilingual Priority label, and illegible postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33900070
Price: $2.00
South Dakota State College, Coolidge Sylvan Theatre and Library (Brookings) (USA)
Unused Albertype Co. card. Grade: 1

Code: 33900071K
Price: $5.00
University of Kansas, Watson Library (Lawrence, Kansas)
Unused card of a library named after Carrie Watson, an 1877 graduate of the university. Grade: 1

Code: 33900072
Price: $1.00
Roachdale Public Library (Indiana, USA)
Unused, real-photo card. The library is still there, having already celebrated its 100th birthday (Congratulations!), and in the same building. Grade: 1

Code: 33900073
Price: $4.00
Library of Gen. Lew Wallace, Crawfordsville (Indiana, USA)
Indiana News Company card C 12429, mailed in 1909 from Stella to her mamma. What a nice message it was. Stamp and postmark are there, and fine too. Grade: 1

Code: 33900074
Price: $4.00
Gen. Lew Wallace Library, Crawfordsville (Indiana, USA)
Unused and clearly ancient E.C. Kropp postcard 1078. Various states of aging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 33900075
Price: $5.00
Minsk, The National Library of Belarus
We’re not certain what ice hockey has to do with the National Library. Do they clear the shelves and play indoors? Long (4″ x 8″) card mailed in 2014 with M stamp and very clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33900076
Price: $4.00
Polatsk Library Museum (Belarus) (not a postcard)
On the front, this 5-1/2″ x 8″ card looks like a postcard but the problem is that it looks more or less the same on the back, fully pre-printed. One could mail it as a postcard, with a little effort, but it is what it is. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 33900077
Price: $3.00
Chicago, The Public Library
A card with multiple personalities. You can see the front, with a Cheyenne, Wyoming postmark. But the card was mailed from Chicago to Cheyenne in 1906 (with stamp and postmark), there are a total of three postmarks on the back (two days from Chicago to Cheyenne, not bad), and a rubber-stamp indication “Denver, Colo. Forwarded”. It’s interesting that there is no forwarding address, so did everyone know where everyone else was in those days? Hard to grade. Call it: Grade: 3

Code: 33900078
Price: $7.00
Plzeň, library (Czech Republic)
Also known as Pilsen, and famous for beer, not to mention being the fourth most-populated city in the Czech Republic, this city also has a nice library, and here it is. There’s an extensive caption. Mailed in 2014, with stamp, postmark, and blue Prioritaire label. Slight degrading on upper right corner. Grade: 2

Code: 33900079
Price: $2.00
The New York Public Library
A Gray Line card from Dexter Press (DT-91328-C), unused. Left perforated edge indicates it had been part of a book or maybe a set. Grade: 1

Code: 33900080
Price: $2.00
St. Gall, The Abbey Library 42 571 (Switzerland)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 33900081
Price: $2.00
St. Gall, Abbey Library 39855 (Switzerland)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 33900082
Price: $2.00
Taipei Public Library Beitou Branch (Taiwan)
Sub-captioned “Taiwan’s first ‘green’ library”, we wonder what makes it so? The books are all imaginary? From the FunTaiwan series, mailed in 2013 with two stamps and partial postmark. Postmark ink transfer on the front, too. Grade: 3

Code: 33900083
Price: $3.00
Chicago, Newberry Library
Wikipedia tells us: “The Newberry Library is a privately endowed, independent research library for the humanities and social sciences in Chicago, Illinois. Although it is a non-circulating library, the Newberry is free and open to the public.” This old card, mailed in 1911 with stamp and partial postmark, has been heavily handled over the years but still represents the library well. Grade: 3

Code: 33900084
Price: $4.00
Museo de La Plata, Biblioteca principal (Argentina)
From a series of old cards from this museum, an unused sepia card, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 33900085
Price: $4.00
St. John’s College Old Library, Books
Compare this card with our entry 33900059. Same place. This card was mailed from Russia in 2014 with two stamps and large postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33900086
Price: $1.00
Minsk, National Library of Belarus
Mailed with a “M” stamp and bilingual Prioritaire chop, but no postmark. Because of that, Grade: 4

Code: 33900087
Price: $2.00
The Municipal Library, La Paz (Bolivia)
This is an accordion-style folio of 16 fold-out photos, in postcard style but individually they are not postcards because each side of each panel has a photo. So you unfold the insert and see eight photos on one side and eight on the other. One panel contains the Municipal Library. The back cover has a person’s name in the address area. Though hard to evaluate, we’ll assign Grade: 3

Code: 33900088
Price: $14.00
Pasadena, Huntington Library and Museum (California)
Unused Plastichrome card P8934. Grade: 1

Code: 33900089
Price: $1.00
Campobello Island (NB), Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Plaque and Public Library (Canada)
Unused, somewhat aging card. Grade: 1

Code: 33900090
Price: $2.00
Labor, Congressional Library (Washington, DC)
Unused B.S. Reynolds card 70564, of a painting by Charles Sprague Pearce. Grade: 2

Code: 33900091
Price: $1.00

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