Unused Plastichrome card P66653 with the state name inked in small letters above the caption on reverse.  It’s now a museum, or it was when the card was made.  Grade: 3

Unused card of one of three surviving Chesapeake Bay screw-pile lighthouses.  When this photo was taken, it was located at the mouth of the Patuxent River.  Now, it’s an exhibit at Calvert Marine Museum.  First lit:  1883.  Grade: 1

Unused Plastichrome card P4948, and this structure’s claim was that “In 1875, Government authorities reported this light house superior to every other American beacon.”  Grade: 2

Unused Plastichrome card P87135.  Minor abrasions.  Grade: 2

This 4-3/4″ x 8-1/4″ card would be a fine addition to any lighthouse postcard collection.  Mailed in 2012, with stamp and postmark and very minor postal creasing for its size, it is largely captioned in what we assume to be correct Chinese, but there’s more in English and here it is:  “Taiwan’s spirit of 24 hour Used the most simply way to essenced the a normal.”  Yes.  Grade: 2

“Aeroplane View” on a heavily handled unused card that had been folded vertically and has album remnants on the corners.  Grade: 5

Unused Plastichrome card P32747 (and N-1521), aging, of this lighthouse first established in 1831.  Grade: 2

Two of these unused, slightly aging Plastichrome cards P18059 (and N4624) of this facility at the southeast angle of Fort Constitution.  Grades: 2

Mailed in 1936 with stamp and Cape May postmark.  Some postmark ink transfer on the front.  Grade: 2

Three of these unused Curteichcolor cards 5DK-1860 are available, all aging slightly but undamaged.  Grades: 1

Unused Cie des Arts Photomecaniques (Paris) card 204, sepia and aged.  Grade: 2

Not postally used, but with an explanation of the location written on the reverse.  Believe it or not, a lighthouse is in there.  Grade: 4

Unused Mabel T. Burr watercolor postcard of a lighthouse 248′ above sea level overlooking Sandy Hook Bay, now partly used as a marine museum.  Fading and mottling on the reverse.  Grade: 3

Unused card with watercolor by Mabel T. Burr.  Other lighthouses much younger than this (according to captions on the postcards) claim to be older.  We could do more research, but if lighthouses are your hobby, you know better than we do.  This one might really be one of the oldest, because as the caption says it was “built 1764 from the proceeds of a lottery, is 103 ft. tall and … has shone virtually without interruption for the last 200 years”.  Some aging, but still:  Grade: 1.

This card was mailed in 1919.  The readable postmark is there, but the stamp is gone without a trace.  Grade: 4

Unused, aging Cardinell Vincent Co. postcard S.F. 70.  Grade: 2

Somehow, we have three of these German-made Hugh C. Leighton Co. cards 940, but even though the photos are the same, the reverse is different on each card.  The one you see in the scan is the best of them, unused. divided back (Grade: 2, $6).  Another was mailed in 1909, undivided back and with the message pencilled on the front bottom, stamp and full New London postmark (Grade: 2, $5).  The third–also undivided back–was mailed in 1905 and has stamp and three postmarks.  Two of those overlap on the back and another is just to the left of the lighthouse on the front (Grade: 3, $4).

Unused Tichnor Quality Views linen card 62835.  Grade: 1

Unused Plastichrome card P53432, aging and heavily handled but this is only notable on the reverse.  Grade: 3

Two of these unused Lusterchrome cards K-6573 are available.  Grades: 1