This “Private Post Card”, otherwise unattributed, has an undivided back and was mailed in 1905 with stamp and partial postmark.  We rarely resort to statements like this, but what you see is what you get.  And, yes, there is a lighthouse in the photo but it is as small as it can be.  Grade: 3 

Unused UNIC card 21684-C (5957) with serrated edges.  The lighthouse is not specifically identified.  Grade: 2

Mailed in 2013 with two stamps, faint postmark, and trilingual Priority.  Grade: 2

Somewhat unusually for cards of this era (and location), this unused 1966 card of a lighthouse 50 miles south of San Francisco is captioned in both English and Spanish.  Grade: 2

The full caption title reads: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina’s Outer Banks,” and goes on to explain that this is/was the only lighthouse owned by the National Park Service, built in 1870, and at 208′ high, the tallest in the U.S.A.  Not certain if all of that is true now, but the caption also points out that “in the foreground are the remains of the second Cape Hatteras lighthouse.”  This unused Dexter Press card is dated 1969, aging, and has a small abrasion on the reverse.  Grade: 3

Unused.  Grade: 1

Unused card, just beginning to age.  It has a maroon circular “Grouse Mountain Chair Lift” chop on the reverse.  We won’t downgrade the card because of that.  Grade: 2

This unused old card is in great condition.  Grade: 1

Unused Plastichrome card P38089 of “One of the old landmarks of the 1000 Islands area.”  Grade: 1

Unused Curteichcolor card 5C-K1896.  Grade: 2

Unused Lusterchrome card K-2561.  Grade: 1

Unused Plastichrome card P53421 (M-2218) of the “highest light above the sea on the Maine coast,” first built in 1795, but the tower you see was built in 1857, and 53′ tall.  Grade: 1

Unused Dexter Press card 43523-B (M-2534) with serrated edges.  Grade: 2

Unused but heavily handled old New England News Company card 7004.  Grade: 4

What an odd little card, like a tiny diorama, with a colourful caption.  Unused, Plastichrome card P66191, suitable as a lighthouse postcard variant.  Grade: 1

We will describe this as accurately as we can, even if we don’t understand it.  Linen C.T. Art-Colortone/Wesley Andrews card 8A-H78 (464) with no message or address or extra writing on the back–but there is a 3-cent “Boulder Dam 1935” stamp pasted upside down in the correct area, and that stamp has a few faint lines of postmark on it.  Yet clearly the card was not mailed “as-is.”  Grade: 4

Mailed in 1985 with 14-cent stamp and postmark.  Serrated edges.  Grade: 3

Mailed in 1909, the stamp is all here but partly folded at time of mailing; full postmark.  Grade: 2

Our newest of several cards featuring this landmark.  Mailed in 2013 with two stamps and partly legible postmark.  Some processing abrasions on the reverse.  Grade: 3

An 1862 lighthouse on a card mailed in 2013 with stamp, faint postmark, and Priority label.  Grade: 1