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Porto Colom, Spain
A card with a split personality. The lighthouse is in Spain but the card was produced in, and mailed from, Germany with three stamps and blue trilingual Priority label, along with address label. Grade: 3
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Cape Reinga Lighthouse, Far North New Zealand
Mailed in 2011 with stamp, obscured postmark, and Par Avion label. Address label is pasted on. Grade: 3
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Lighthouse in the dunes
Not sure where the lighthouse is. The card was printed for IKEA, licensed in Denmark (no, not Sweden), and mailed from Netherlands with stamp and partial postmark. Abrasion on lower front corner. Grade: 3
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Kap Arkona (Germany)
Two cards are available. One was mailed in 2011 with stamp, postmark, and Priority label, the only problem is some postal battering on the lower left corner. The other was mailed in 2012, three stamps, postmark and Priority, similar condition (Grades: 3, $4)
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Macau Scenery 4 – Renowned Landmarks (front cover) (set)
An unused set of 10 cards from the Chio Sio Chi oil painting collection. As you can see from 34000092B, they show contemporary and historical scenes, including the Guia lighthouse. Grade: 1
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Macau Scenery 4 – Renowned Landmarks (back cover) (set)
See description for 34000092A.
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Macau Postcard (set)
A set of ten unused cards, in glossy cover, all very high quality, and showing (among others): a night scene, Nan Van at night and day, Venetian Macao Resort (and casino), Macau Tower and Sai Van Bridge, St. Paul’s, the lighthouse, and Senado Square. And, yes, it’s the cards themselves that use these variant spellings of Macau. Grade: 1
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Tahkuna Lighthouse (Estonia)
The front of this Estonia postcard is great but the reverse is loaded up with little stickers, address label, Prioritaire sticker, but then also a large stamp and postmark. Grade: 4
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Eluanbi Lighthouses, Pingtung (Taiwan)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and full Taipei postmark. Grade: 1
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Pescadero (California)
Lighthouse built in 1972 (115′ high), card mailed in 2012 with three different stamps. Illegible postmark, as is the norm now. Grade: 1
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IJmuiden – Havenhoofd (Netherlands)
From 2012, with four stamps, postmark, and the address label affixed. Grade: 3
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Crete, Chania – Waves (Greece)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Uto Lighthouse (Finland)
Very nice contemporary card, in great condition. Mailed in 2012 with stamp, Priority, and illegible postmark. Grade: 1
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Grand Traverse Lighthouse, Northport (Michigan)
Not postally used, but with extensive message on the reverse. Grade: 4
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The Maritime Museum of Finland, Lightship “Kemi” (Helsinki)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, faint postmark, and blue Priority label. The white streak you may see in the water below the ship is a postal abrasion. Grade: 3
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Lighthouse on Pointe du Pontusval, Brittany (France)
Mailed from Germany, not France, in 2012–because the card was made in Germany. Two stamps and partial postmark. Grade: 3
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North Sea lighthouse (Germany)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, most of the postmark, Priority label, and orange postal barcoding, this is a somewhat flimsy card that appears to have been ordered online through Deutschepost. Grade: 1
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Sunderland – Hylton Castle, lighthouse, Seaburn Beach (England)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Lighthouses of Michigan (USA)
Not postally used, but with extensive message on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Leuchtturme der Nordsee (Germany)
Great for collectors of lighthouse postcards: all 12 of these are identified. Mailed in 2012 with two stamps and blue trilingual Priority label. Grade: 1
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Povorotniy Lighthouse, Baltic Sea (Russia)
No. 6 in the photoFabrique “Lighthouses of Russia” series, this one is in the Gulf of Finland. Two of these are available. One was mailed in 2012 from Ukraine (not Russia!) with four stamps, postmark, a sticker of a duck, and two address labels affixed (Grade: 4, $1) and the other in 2013, also from Ukraine, with three stamps and two postmarks (Grade: 1, $3).
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Oceanside Small Craft Harbor, South Basin Shore (California)
We will forever associate this little area with Jolly Roger, whose day may have come and gone but still hangs on–like many of us! Two of these unused cards are available, just starting to age. Grades: 2
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Oceanside Harbor (California)
Two unused cards are available. Grades: 1
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Cabrillo National Monument, “Old Spanish Lighthouse” (San Diego, California)
On Point Loma, and first lighted in 1855. Unused card. Grade: 2
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Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego (California)
On Point Loma, and first lighted in 1855. Unused Plastichrome card P36597, but notably aging. Grade: 2
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Paljon Onnea! (Happy Birthday) (Finland)
Mailed from Italy (not Finland!) in 2012, with two different stamps and full Pisa postmark. Grade: 3
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Nida (Lithuania)
Card from 2012, and the writer explains everything. Large stamp, postmark, and Pirmenybine label. Grade: 1
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Semarang Lighthouse – Tanjung Emas (Indonesia)
Not postally used, but with messages written on the reverse. This Real Photo card of the facility at Tanjung Emas should be compared with the same view through Google Earth now! Grade: 4
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Southwold Beach and lighthouse (England)
Mailed from Wales in 2012 with stamp and blue Air Mail label, and fully legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Lighthouse Aniva, Sakhalin (Russia)
Photo Fabrique card No. 1 from the series “Lighthouses of Russia”. This lighthouse, on the Sea of Okhotsk, is on a card mailed from Ukraine (not Russia!) in 2012 with five stamps and full postmark. The card itself was heavily handled in transit and has a highly crumpled appearance. Grade: 4
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Cape Mudge Lighthouse, Quadra Island, BC (Canada)
The lighthouse was built in 1898; the card much later, unused, with serrated edges. Grade: 1
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Old Baldy Lighthouse (North Carolina, USA)
According to the caption, “The oldest lighthouse in North Carolina, Old Baldy stands 90 feet high.” This 4-7/8″ x 6-7/8″ card was mailed in 2012 with two stamps and readable postmark. Faint orange barcoding on the front. Grade: 2
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Michigan Lighthouses
The reverse caption of this card (mailed in 2012, $1.05 stamp and readable postmark) identifies these lighthouses as Holland Harbor, Tawas Point, Little Sable, Muskegon, Old Mission, and Point Betsie. We hope this satisfies the search engines (and you!). Grade: 1
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Cape Cod, old lighthouses (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C14485 (and MA1491) showing Nauset Light at Eastham, Highland Light at North Truro, and Nobska Light at Woods Hole. Grade: 1
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Lighthouses on Cape Arkona on Rugen (Germany)
This may be an internet card, but definitely was mailed in 2012 with two stamps, postmark, and priority. Grade: 1
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Deutsche Post, lighthouse (Germany)
This extraordinarily flimsy card (light as a feather, almost) was published by Deutsche Post but for whatever reason they do not say what lighthouse this is. The card survived mailing in 2012 with one stamp, full postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 1
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Eluanbi Lighthouse (Taiwan)
We believe this to be a made-to-order card, but it is well done, so we list it anyway. Mailed in 2012, sturdy stock, three stamps, postmark, blue bilingual airmail rubber-stamp. Grade: 1
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Germany
This postcard was produced in Germany and mailed from Netherlands, but we can’t see that the caption (in German) identifies the lighthouse. Grade: 3
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Government Breakwater and Lighthouse, San Pedro (California)
Unused Van Ornum Colorprint card 479. Aging, but still Grade: 2
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Bass Harbor Head Light (Maine, USA)
Mailed in 2012 with $1.05 stamp, readable postmark, and some postal abrasions on front and back. Grade: 3