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Habana, Carnival at Malecon Promenade
Unused “Republica de Cuba” C. Jordi card No. 45 (and 106670). Grade: 1

Code: 34000173
Price: $6.00
Noordwijk aan Zee (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2012 with three stamps (two are “Europa”), with Priority and address labels also stuck on. Grade: 4

Code: 34000174
Price: $1.00
Cape Meganom, Black Sea (Ukraine)
Mailed in 2012 with three large and different stamps, and blue bilingual Par Avion label. This is card #3 in the series, “Lighthouses of Ukraine”. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 34000175
Price: $5.00
Morro de Sao Paulo Lighthouse (Brazil)
Mailed from Sao Paulo with a postage meter in 2012, fingerprint and some white correctional fluid on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 34000176
Price: $5.00
New Haven, Aerial view of Lighthouse Point (Connecticut, USA)
Unused card. It’s called a summer resort even though the photo makes it look like a gigantic construction site. Grade: 1

Code: 34000177
Price: $2.00
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island Lighthouse (Georgia, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 30952-B of a lighthouse near the entrance to the South Channel of the Savannah River. Grade: 1

Code: 34000178
Price: $4.00
Ocean County, Barnegat Lighthouse State Park (New Jersey, USA)
Unused card dated 1965, an aerial view showing “America’s second oldest lighthouse, Barnegat, which was built in 1856-58 by Lt. General George Meade.” This claim is at odds with other lighthouses (and their postcards) in our website, but we don’t make these things up. Grade: 1

Code: 34000179
Price: $4.00
Oldfield Lighthouse (New York)
Unused Dexter Press card K-225-D-48 (and 50340), rounded corners, of an “old landmark on the north shore of Long Island”. Aged and with some edge abrasions. Grade: 2

Code: 34000180
Price: $3.00
Horton’s Point Lighthouse, Southold (Long Island, New York)
Unused, gently aging card. Grade: 1

Code: 34000181
Price: $5.00
Stratford Shoal (Middle Ground) Lighthouse (Connecticut, USA)
Unused Tomlin Art card 5D-68783-B of a lighthouse built in 1877. Grade: 1

Code: 34000182
Price: $4.00
Yaquina Head, Newport (Oregon, USA)
Two unused Smith-Western cards of this lighthouse built in 1874 are available. One bears number S-22624-7 (and K-93), is aging but clean, and still Grade: 1 ($3). The other has a slightly different number S-22624-3 (and K-93) and more aged (Grade: 2, $2).

Code: 34000184
Price: $3.00
Beaver Tail Light, Entrance to Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, USA)
Two of these Poly-Chrome cards A 8067 are available. One was mailed from Providence in 1908, with stamp and two postmarks. Some postmark ink transfer on the front also (Grade: 2, $6). The other is unused, with a smudge on upper right front (Grade: 3, $4).

Code: 34000185
Price: $6.00
Bolivar Lighthouse (Texas)
Unused Curteichcolor card 9DK-268, of this 117′ lighthouse built in 1872. Grade: 1

Code: 34000186
Price: $4.00
Hilton Head Island, Sea Pines Plantation, Harbour Town Lighthouse (South Carolina, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 64525-C. Grade: 1

Code: 34000187
Price: $2.00
Palmetto Dunes Lighthouse, Hilton Head Island (South Carolina, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 53684-C, which the caption describes as “Weather Beaten Lighthouse”. Grade: 1

Code: 34000188
Price: $3.00
Port Isabel Lighthouse State Park (Texas)
Unused Dexter Press card 14395-C (and FW-649) of this inactive lighthouse dating from 1852. It was “discarded from use” in 1905 and somehow is still there. Grade: 1

Code: 34000189
Price: $4.00
Cape Disappointment Lighthouse (Washington)
Unused card 081186 of this 58,000 candlepower facility, completed in 1858 and operated at the time the card was printed by the U.S. Coast Guard. Grade: 1

Code: 34000190
Price: $4.00
Grays Harbor Light, Westport (Washington, USA)
“Built in 1898 of brick on sandstone base,” at Port Chehalis, with 180,000 candlepower. Unused card 175486. Grade: 1

Code: 34000191
Price: $3.00
Fort Casey Lighthouse (Washington, USA)
“One of the three forts overlooking Admiralty Inlet established to guard the entrance of Puget Sound,” on the west side of Whidbey Island. Unused local card 51326. Grade: 1

Code: 34000192
Price: $4.00
Chinook, Fort Washington State Park, Light House Lens (Washington, USA)
Unused local card 69954. This appears to be just the lens on display, not the entire lighthouse. Grade: 1

Code: 34000193
Price: $5.00
Entrance to Milwaukee Harbor (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused L.L. Cook card 43117-B (and 165Z) dated 1961. Neither the lighthouse nor the ship are named. Grade: 1

Code: 34000194
Price: $3.00
St. David’s Lighthouse (Bermuda)
This unused card would be Grade 1 if someone had not inked an index number over the stamp area. Therefore, it becomes Grade: 3

Code: 34000195
Price: $4.00
Quebec, Gaspe Nord
Unnamed lighthouse on this unused UNIC card 60773-C (and 6463) with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 34000196
Price: $2.00
Colchester County, Five Islands, Sandy Beach Lighthouse (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Though this unused card couldn’t find anything special to say about the lighthouse, it does say “The tides in this area are among the highest in the world.” Exact location: along the north shore of Minas Basin. Grade: 1

Code: 34000197
Price: $4.00
Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia (Canada)
Unused wholly Canadian card, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 34000198
Price: $3.00
M.V. Prince Nova (Canada)
Lots of bilingual detail about the ferry vessel on this unused Plastichrome card P68702, but nothing about the lighthouse. We think the photo location may be Prince Edward Island. Grade: 1

Code: 34000199
Price: $2.00
M.V. Bluenose passing Yarmouth Light (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Unused, aging Dexter Press card 69386-B. Grade: 2

Code: 34000200
Price: $4.00
Souris Lighthouse, Prince Edward Island (Canada)
Unused Book Room Ltd. card ES-24. Grade: 1

Code: 34000201
Price: $5.00
A New Brunswick lighthouse on the Bay of Fundy (Canada)
New Brunswick is identified on this unused, aging Plastichrome card P63479, but unfortunately the lighthouse isn’t. Should be easy enough to find out. Grade: 2

Code: 34000202
Price: $2.00
Quebec, La Gaspesie, Lighthouse at Shipshead (Canada)
Unused Spectrome Canadian card 4052R, bilingual caption. Grade: 1

Code: 34000203
Price: $4.00
Pictou Light, Nova Scotia (Canada)
Unused Book Room Ltd. card ES-6, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 34000204
Price: $4.00
Gaspe, Quebec – Cap des Rosiers Lighthouse (Canada)
Unused Plastichrome card P4780 of this 120′ lighthouse, built in 1857. Grade: 1

Code: 34000205
Price: $4.00
Yarmouth Lighthouse, Nova Scotia (Canada)
Unused H.S. Crocker Mirro-Krome card BR-69, with the unusual addition of lobster pot markers in the foreground. Some handling evident on the card. Grade: 2

Code: 34000206
Price: $4.00
Point Atkinson Lighthouse (Canada)
The unused card does not say so directly, but this lighthouse is near West Vancouver, British Columbia. Design dates from 1953; maybe the card does, too, but we’re not certain. Grade: 1

Code: 34000207
Price: $3.00
The Thousand Islands, Ontario, Red Horse Lighthouse (Canada)
Unused Plastichrome card P62016. Aging noticeably. Grade: 2

Code: 34000208
Price: $2.00
Anglesey, South Stack Lighthouse (Wales)
This card may have been mailed in 1964–the postmark isn’t totally legible, but the stamp is there. Having read the message, though, it’s one of those cards that we do so wish we could know how it got from the recipient to us. Grade: 2

Code: 34000209
Price: $4.00
Dartmouth, Old Battery and Victorian navigational light (England)
Not postally used, but with an inked message in the message area. Grade: 4

Code: 34000210
Price: $1.00
Portland, Dorset – Portland Bill and Lighthouse (England)
Mailed in 1969 with stamp and Weymouth postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 34000211
Price: $3.00
Sand Island Lighthouse, Mobile (Alabama, USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card DS-253, “A Deep South Card”. Grade: 1

Code: 34000214
Price: $5.00
Crescent City, Light House (California)
Unused Mike Roberts card C14388 of a facility that “can be reached by foot on extreme low tide only”. Grade: 2

Code: 34000215
Price: $4.00

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