What’s nice about this card, mailed in 1961, is the full, clear postmark from Boothbay Harbor–where there is (surprise!) a different lighthouse.  Three-cent stamp.  Grade: 1

Unused, old A.C. Bosselman & Co. card with that significant stain on the top front and reverse edge.  Grade: 4

Two of these cards are available.  The one you see in this scan was mailed in 1905 with stamp and Boston postmark (Grade: 2, $6).  The other has more writing on the front bottom, from someone wanting to exchange postcards with a correspondent, and has stamp plus two overlapping 1906 postmarks (both readable) from sending and receiving offices.  We have resisted commenting much on this phenomenon, but we have plenty of proof here that USPS could move mail great distances in one day–back in those days (Grade: 2, $6).

As a reminder, we try to follow the spelling used on the postcards themselves.  Two of these unused 1967 Hiawatha cards 46781-H (30433) are available.  They say this lighthouse was built in 1872 and in operation until 1957, with “the possibility that a marine museum may some day open.”  At least one internet source says the lighthouse went into operation in 1892, and that it did indeed reopen as a museum in 2004.  Grades: 2

Unused Tomlin card 5D-31954-B.  Grade: 1

This Portland Post Card Co. card was mailed in 1909 with stamp and partial postmark.  For once, a message with clear, easy-to-read handwriting!  Corner abrasions.  Grade: 3

Litho-Chrome card B 11956, mailed from Providence in 1907 with stamp and readable postmark.  There is a very minor tear in the right edge.  Grade: 3

Desirable old card, mailed in 1913–and while a Colorado postmark is there, the stamp is gone.  Grade: 4

Mailed in 1911 with stamp and full Providence postmark.  Postmark ink transfer on the front.  Grade: 3

Unused F.J. Martschink card 1774N (and 34).  Grade: 2

Unused card dated 1968.  Aging a bit.  Grade: 2

We do not know if this unused card is a reproduction or not.  It’s a real photo, unattributed, on Kodak Paper, called “Photo Post Card”.  The condition of this B&W card is excellent, though if such things matter to you, please consider this to be some kind of reprint.  Grade: 1

Unused H.S. Crocker card C-169.  Grade: 2

You might notice we describe the same facility different ways, and when this happens, we’re just following what the card says.  This old Newman Company card L.15 was not postally used but has a poignant little message written on the reverse.  We feel their frustration!  Grade: 4

Unused card, slightly aged.  Grade: 1

Unused Curteichcolor card 7C-K683 (and 79) of “the longest bridge in the world” (at that time).  There is absolutely no clear answer to any such claim now, but it’s still a long bridge.  Grade: 1

Unused card missing lower left corner, and the lower right corner has become detached as you can see in the scan.  That piece is here.  Grade: 5

With all due respect to Nubble Light, postcards of it are beginning to feel like those of the White House or the Golden Gate Bridge:  they look the same.  But we respect that there are always minor differences–wave action, weather, atmosphere, always something.  This card has serrated edges, Dexter Press M-1238, and was mailed in 1982 with a 13-cent stamp and full postmark.  Grade: 1

Unused Dexter Press card 61280-B (and M-3105), serrated edges, of this discontinued facility.  Grade: 1

Unused Dexter Press card 10372-B (and M-2254), serrated edges.  Grade: 1