Dexter Press card 82810 (D-26), mailed from Kittery in 1958 with two stamps.  Well-loved over the years.  Grade: 3

Unused card.  Grade: 1

We put the number in the header to help differentiate from other, similar cards.  This is an unused old card whose only attribution is the small “crown” logo on the reverse.  Grade: 1

Mason Bros. & Co. card 472, not postally used but with a long message to Anna from Cousin Ella on the reverse.  Grade: 4

Mailed in 1908 with sending and receiving postmarks overlapping each other.  The stamp is still there.  With some ink transfer on the front, Grade: 3

Not postally used, but with full message and address on the reverse.  Grade: 4

The postmark tells us this undivided back card was mailed in 1906 but the stamp is gone and the reverse is badly abraded.  Grade: 5

Unused linen United Art Co. card 44857 (and 209), explaining that this is (was) one of many lights in Massachusetts Bay, sold to the U.S. in 1847 and rebuilt in 1860.  We have not followed its history after that.  Grade: 1

Classic, vintage lighthouse postcard c-380 published by Blanchard, Young & Co.  Mailed from Provincetown in 1907 with stamp and large, full postmark.  The card is unusual for not naming the lighthouse, but that will be easy enough to find out.  Minor abrasions.  Grade: 2

With cards like this, one can almost imagine bales of tea floating by.  Two cards are available.  The one you see here was mailed in 1907, with stamp and sending/receiving station postmarks, undivided back card 5209 published by The New England News Company of Boston, Leipzig, and Dresden.  Ink on the front as you see it  (Grade: 3, $9).  The other is aging but unused.  Please note that the “Deer Island” legend in red is somewhat smudged (Grade: 3, $5).

We know we have no other postcard like this.  It is a 2-ply card (it doesn’t open up) framing a clear montage of Taiwan scenes on what may be a Cellophane or plastic insert in that map section:  you can see through this.  The scan shows the front of the card, with Kenting National Park.  On the reverse, along with space for stamp and address, is a picture of Eluanbi Lighthouse.  (Yes, you can still see those other photos through the map area.)  All this is still in the original plastic wrap.  Unused, Grade: 1

An unused card cut into the shape of the Island of Taiwan and still in the original cellowrap.  Grade: 1

A beautiful photo, and three large different stamps, and full postmark … but … unfortunately the (English) caption does not identify the specific lighthouse:  it just says what you see here.  Blue Par avion chop, and address label affixed.  Grade: 3

We do this for you, but we also do it for the search engines:  here are the names of the eight lighthouses on this card, mailed in 2012 with stamp and heavy postmark:  Portland Head, Indian Island, Mount Desert Rock, Cape Neddick, Pemaquid, West Quoddy Head, Bass Harbor, and Goat Island.  Grade: 2

When this (unused National Park Concessions) postcard NPC-131 (S-40909-1) was printed, the lighthouse in Lake Superior was manned by the U.S. Coast Guard.  However, Wikipedia gives us a number of reasons why it was automated in 1978.  There should have been a Stephen King movie made there.  Grade: 1

Unused Dexter Press card 2924-C, aging and with rounded corners.  Grade: 2

If the lighthouse has another name, this unused 1952 card 60653 from L.L. Cook doesn’t mention it.  Heavily aged and fingermarked over the years.  Grade: 3

Unused “local” card.  Grade: 2

Unused “local” card.  Grade: 1

Unused Plastichrome card P4058 (Z-2).  Grade: 1