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Warwick Neck Lighthouse (Rhode Island)
Unused “Rooster Booster” card LK-86, with drawing of the state map printed on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 34000467
Price: $4.00
Narragansett Bay, Plum Beach Light, West Passage (Rhode Island, USA)
Classic vintage lighthouse postcard, Rhode Island News Company A 8064, mailed from Providence in 1912 with stamp and postmark and message. This is the kind of card you might say really has “character”. Grade: 3

Code: 34000468
Price: $6.00
Ida Lewis Lighthouse, Newport (Rhode Island)
We wanted to know more about a lighthouse named after a person, so we went to Wikipedia to see the story. Beginning as the Lime Rock Lighthouse, this building served its purpose in one form or another from 1854-1963 and is now the clubhouse of the Ida Lewis Yacht Club. There was more than one Ida, and they both did their work well. Unused, undivided back card No. 957 from Hugh C. Leighton Co. The scan won’t show, but the card was made with some glitter along the shoreline and pier structures. Grade: 3

Code: 34000469
Price: $7.00
Old Wickford Lighthouse (Rhode Island)
Unused Transcolor Corporation card 48822, rounded corners, of a lighthouse built in 1831 and now (or at the time the card was printed) a private residence. Grade: 1

Code: 34000470
Price: $3.00
Port Isabel Lighthouse (Texas)
Unused Dexter Press card 3935B (DB-574) of an inactive lighthouse built in 1852 and “permanently discarded from use in 1905”. Of 16 lighthouses originally built along the Texas Gulf Coast, this is now the only one open to the public. Grade: 1

Code: 34000471
Price: $4.00
Milwaukee, Entrance to Lake Park, Light House and Lion Bridge (Wisconsin, USA)
Not postally used, but with name and message written on the back. Grade: 4

Code: 34000472
Price: $2.00
Milwaukee Breakwater Light (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused L.L. Cook card 44958 (280-Z), dated 1960. Grade: 1

Code: 34000473
Price: $4.00
Nova Scotia, Peggy’s Cove, The Lighthouse (Canada)
Unused Plastichrome card 111981. Grade: 2

Code: 34000474
Price: $4.00
Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse, Nova Scotia (Canada)
H.S. Crocker card BR-589, mailed in what looks like 1964 with 4-cent stamp and partly legible postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 34000475
Price: $4.00
Coastal Sunset
The card does not identify the location or identity of the lighthouse, but there it is. As for the card, it was made in Ireland (a clue?) and mailed to the USA in 1966 but as it was sent through US military facilities, it bears an 8-cent USA stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 34000476
Price: $1.00
Hospital Point, Beverly (Massachusetts)
Though the stamp and postmark are still there, the defining clue to the date is on the front of the card showing Hospital Point Lighthouse. There’s a message on the back as well. Grade: 3

Code: 34000477
Price: $3.00
Bug Light, Boston Harbor
Unused undivided back card 7529 from The Metropolitan News Co. Aged and corner-abraded. Grade: 3

Code: 34000478
Price: $5.00
The Lighthouse, Atlantic City (New Jersey, USA)
This card just calls it “The Lighthouse,” though at some point the official name had become “Absecon Lighthouse,” with construction starting in 1854 and deactivation for actual use in 1933. The card was mailed in 1909 with stamp and clear Atlantic City postmark. Normal, minor marks and abrasions for a mailed card of this age. Grade: 2

Code: 34000480
Price: $7.00
Old Windmill, Prescott (Ontario)
This is a very old “local” B&W card of what is now called “Battle of the Windmills Historic Site”. We knew nothing of the background, so we looked it up and were interested to see that 300 Americans invaded Canada in 1838 (the card says 1837) with the idea that Canadians would rather be Americans, and when the Americans lost this battle, many were sent off to Australia. We suspect there’s more to the story, but the card is here waiting for you. And by the way, it is not a mistake that we are placing this in our “Lighthouse” category. For that, a good search engine will help. Grade: 1

Code: 34000481
Price: $8.00
New Taipei City, Fuguei Cape Lighthouse (Taiwan)
From the very nice FunTaiwan series, and so up-to-date that it has a QR code on the back, this card mailed in 2012 with two different stamps and a light blue trilingual Air Mail sticker affixed. Grade: 1

Code: 34000482
Price: $4.00
Constanta, lighthouse and statue (Romania)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and two postmarks. Minor postal bumping on lower left corner. Grade: 2

Code: 34000483
Price: $4.00
Pemaquid Light (Maine, USA)
Yet another view of this famous lighthouse, on a Mike Roberts unused card C4533. Two are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34000484
Price: $4.00
Portland Head Light, Casco Bay, Portland (Maine, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone linen card 4A-H2166 (and 100). Grade: 1

Code: 34000485
Price: $4.00
The Race Point Light, Provincetown, Cape Cod (Massachusetts)
Unused Tichnor Bros. Lusterchrome card K-2200. Grade: 2

Code: 34000486
Price: $3.00
Absecon Light House by night, Atlantic City (New Jersey)
Nice vintage lighthouse postcard showing the facility in its intended use. Mailed in what looks like 1925 (the “5” in the postmark isn’t completely clear), the 2-cent stamp is there. Grade: 2

Code: 34000487
Price: $6.00
San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island
If you’re looking for the iconic Alcatraz postcard, you’ve found it. Mailed in 1911 with stamp and postmark, and some ink transfer on the front (clearly visible in the scan). Grade: 3

Code: 34000488
Price: $6.00
San Diego, Government Lighthouse, Point Loma (California)
Unused, slightly aging I.L. Eno card 4396. Grade: 2

Code: 34000489
Price: $4.00
Point Loma Light (Union Oil Company No. 45), California
Unused card No. 45 from Union Oil’s extensive “Natural Color Photographic Scenes of the West” series, dated 1939 and showing Point Loma Light, which was in operation from 1855 through 1891. Now, Cabrillo National Monument. Grade: 1

Code: 34000490
Price: $5.00
San Francisco, Mile Rock Light House, Golden Gate Strait
Unused, aging Edward H. Mitchell postcard 2307. Grade: 2

Code: 34000491
Price: $4.00
Ogunquit, Panorama View of Surf and Rocks (Maine, USA)
Unused “local” postcard, aging somewhat. Grade: 1

Code: 34000492
Price: $3.00
Annisquam Lighthouse (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused Lusterchrome card K-6572 of this facility overlooking Ipswich Bay. Grade: 1

Code: 34000493
Price: $3.00
Annisquam Light, Gloucester (Massachusetts)
Unused vintage postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 34000494
Price: $6.00
Boston Harbor, Bug Light
Careful, please! We have several different old Bug Light postcards, and they can all seem the same, but they’re not. For this particular card (which lacks the auxiliary structure off to the right, if you compare with 34000391, for example) we have three copies. The scan you see was published by New England News Company (#5215) and mailed from Boston in 1908 with stamp and full postmark (Grade: 2, $6). Another with the same photo and card number was mailed in 1910, also with stamp and postmark but with more ink transfer on the front (Grade: 3, $4). The third was mailed in 1911, again the same photo but yet another print run, less ink on the front, mailed in 1911 with stamp, postmark, and very detailed message (Grade: 3, $4).

Code: 34000495
Price: $6.00
Entrance to Grand Marais Harbor (Minnesota)
Unused C.T. American Art Colored card 107535. Grade: 1

Code: 34000496
Price: $4.00
Detroit, Palmer Park, Feeding the Swans (Michigan, USA)
We normally don’t do serious editorialising, but one might see postcards like this and think of less troublesome times in Detroit. Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 34000498
Price: $3.00
Tillamook Lighthouse, Cannon Beach (Oregon, USA)
Mailed in August, 1941, with stamp and large postmark. The message is faded but definitely of the era. Grade: 2

Code: 34000499
Price: $4.00
Cape Blanco Light House (Oregon, USA)
Unused Wesley Andrews card 2A184 (965). Grade: 1

Code: 34000500
Price: $3.00
Umpqua Light House, Oregon Coast Highway
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone/Wesley Andrews linen card 7A-H3958. Grade: 1

Code: 34000501
Price: $3.00
Bodie Island Lighthouse, The Outer Banks of North Carolina
The Lighthouse is now part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Park, and the former Keeper’s Lodging was turned into a museum. Unused Plastichrome card P81362, just beginning to age. Grade: 2

Code: 34000502
Price: $3.00
Tibbets Point Light House, Cape Vincent (New York)
Unused Plastichrome card P89317 of a lighthouse first built in 1827 and rebuilt in 1854. More details are in the caption. Grade: 1

Code: 34000503
Price: $4.00
Ogdensburg Lighthouse (New York)
Unused Curteichcolor card 7C-K2555. This lighthouse is on the St. Lawrence River. Grade: 2

Code: 34000504
Price: $4.00
Sunken Rock Lighthouse, Alexandria Bay (New York)
Unused Curteichcolor card 0DK245, also showing Heart Island and Boldt Castle. Grade: 1

Code: 34000505
Price: $3.00
West Point on the Hudson, Light House and “Old Crow Nest” Mountain (New York)
American News Company undivided back Poly=Chrome card 5351, mailed in 1906 with sending and receiving postmarks, and the stamp. Grade: 2

Code: 34000506
Price: $3.00
The Mull of Galloway (Scotland)
Unused Colourmaster card PT36318 (WG 134). Grade: 1

Code: 34000507
Price: $4.00
Vancouver, entrance to Vancouver Harbor and Lions Gate Bridge
The lighthouse is surprisingly not identified. We have three of these unused Plastichrome cards P6977, a view from Brockton Point. One is Grade: 2 ($1); one is actually Grade 1 but slightly misregistered during printing ($1); and one is just Grade 1 ($3).

Code: 34000508
Price: $1.00

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