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Spring Point Light, Portland Harbor (Maine)
We have two of these cards, and as usual with older postcards we need to explain the differences carefully. One (in the scan) has all four corners intact. It was definitely mailed, and has two different same-day 1906 postmarks from different locations, but no stamp–and no sign there ever was one. There is some kind of pink staining on the reverse, less so on the front (Grade: 4, $6). The other (not pictured) has bits of two corners missing, and was mailed in 1908 with stamp and full Boston postmark. The writer compares this to Bug Light in Boston harbor (Grade: 4, $4).

Code: 34000299
Price: $6.00
Squirrel Point Light Station, Arrowsic (Maine)
Unused card. On the east bank of the Kennebec River, established in 1898. Grade: 2

Code: 34000300
Price: $4.00
West Quoddy Light (Maine)
Unused Dexter Press card 21343-B (and M-3421), serrated edges. Though not a “first”, this lighthouse’s claim to fame is that it is “On the most easterly point of land in the United States.” Grade: 1

Code: 34000301
Price: $3.00
West Quoddy Head Light (Maine)
Two unused cards are available. The fronts are identical. The reverse of one (Grade: 1, $3) is a little brighter and less-aged than the reverse of the other (Grade: 2, $2).

Code: 34000302
Price: $2.00
Cape Cod, Coast Guard Lighthouse at Woods Hole (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused Lusterchrome card K-6327, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 34000303
Price: $3.00
Scituate Lighthouse (Massachusetts)
Unused Lusterchrome card K-12945. Grade: 1

Code: 34000304
Price: $4.00
Boston Light House
Cute caption: “This unique picture showing Boston Light House was taken from the stern of a new yacht while going at full speed.” Unused Plastichrome card P38800. Grade: 2

Code: 34000305
Price: $3.00
Huron Light Ship (Michigan, USA)
Unused L.L. Cook card 51269. Aged a bit. We believe this qualifies as a lighthouse postcard! Grade: 2

Code: 34000306
Price: $4.00
Historic Biloxi Lighthouse (Mississippi, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C7157 of “one of the most treasured historical objects along the Mississippi Gulf Coast,” built in 1848. We are grateful to Wikipedia for adding this: “The lighthouse has been kept by female keepers for more years than any other lighthouse in the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.” It was also damaged by Hurricane Katrina but reopened in 2010. Grade: 1

Code: 34000307
Price: $5.00
Absecon Lighthouse, Atlantic City (New Jersey)
C.T. American Art card 86984, mailed from Philadelphia in 1926 with 2-cent stamp and postmark. There’s significant postmark ink transfer on the front, as you can see in the scan. Grade: 3

Code: 34000308
Price: $3.00
Stony Point Battlefield Lighthouse (New York)
Unused Pendor card 93034. Following a Block House destroyed on this spot, the lighthouse was first in operation in 1825. Grade: 1

Code: 34000309
Price: $4.00
Fulton Chain, Fourth Lake, lighthouse (New York)
Unused Dexter Press card 97162-B 0-7 whose caption honestly points out: “Whether built for navigational or purely ornamental purposes…” Grade: 1

Code: 34000310
Price: $3.00
Dunkirk, Point Gratiot (New York)
Unused Plastichrome card P58670. Grade: 1

Code: 34000311
Price: $3.00
Fire Island Lighthouse (New York)
Unused Tomlin card 5D-6712-C. Grade: 1

Code: 34000312
Price: $4.00
View down Hudson River from the Bend at West Point (no bottom margin) (New York)
Unused American News Company card M-2299, with the same photo but different design from their earlier card 5113 (to follow). Aged but in otherwise excellent condition. Grade: 1

Code: 34000313
Price: $4.00
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Buxton (North Carolina)
Some special things about this lighthouse postcard: first, the caption identifies the light as the “Tallest Lighthouse structure in America”. At somewhere between 200-207′, this is still true now. Second, the card was mailed (with address, but no message) using a block of four different 2-cent “National Parks Centennial” stamps representing Cape Hatteras. Third, a large, clear Buxton postmark. This card therefore was a predecessor in style to today’s Maximum Cards, and would be a jewel in any specialty collection. Grade: 1

Code: 34000314
Price: $16.00
Cape Foulweather, Newport (Oregon, USA)
Atmospheric old B&W Edward H. Mitchell card, mailed in 1920 with stamp and Newport postmark. An old price (not ours) is inked above the stamp. Grade: 3

Code: 34000315
Price: $5.00
Heceta Head (Union Oil no. 65) (Oregon)
Over the years, Union Oil Company of California issued a series of cards (“See the Old West this year with 76 Gasoline”) (the slogan varies over time) depicting western U.S.A. landmarks. This card, dated 1941, is one of those. We have two of these. One was mailed in 1943 with 1-cent stamp and Cottage Grove, Oregon, postmark–and a message that so totally resonates with us as we have read (or tried to read) thousands of similar messages from eras past (Grade: 1, $7). The other is unused and with a minor smudge on the reverse (Grade: 2, $5).

Code: 34000316
Price: $7.00
Oregon Lighthouses
Unused card whose caption on the reverse identifies all eight of the pictured lighthouses. The card has heavy creasing, not really damaging but very visible, horizontally across the top edge. Grade: 3

Code: 34000317
Price: $4.00
Cape Meares Light House, Oregon Coast
The caption writer on this unused Curteichcolor card 2DK-1728 (and PC.163) was running out of ideas, but it’s a distinctive and unusual photo. Grade: 1

Code: 34000318
Price: $4.00
Umpqua Lighthouse State Park (Oregon)
Unused Smith Western, Inc., card S-1548-3 (and K-273), aging. Grade: 2

Code: 34000319
Price: $3.00
Cape Arago Light, Coos Bay (Oregon)
Two unused Smith-Western Co. Plastichrome cards P22526 (and K-1592) are available, mildly aging (Grades: 1, $3). Another card, mailed in 1966 with stamp and partial postmark, is also available (Grade: 1, $3).

Code: 34000320
Price: $3.00
Alabama Gulf Coast, Sand Island Lighthouse (USA)
Unused Scenic South Card 99875. Grade: 1

Code: 34000321
Price: $4.00
Cape Blanco Light House, Oregon Coast (USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 7DK-1570 (and PC.129B). Grade: 1

Code: 34000322
Price: $4.00
Block Island, North Light (Rhode Island)
Not the conventional sight of a lighthouse, but genuine nonetheless–this facility built in 1867. Unused Tomlin card 5D-38267-C. Grade: 1

Code: 34000323
Price: $4.00
Hunting Island Lighthouse (South Carolina)
Like so many other lighthouses we have listed, this is not the first to be built on the same site. In this case, something was built in 1859 but this one was completed in 1889. This is a confusing caption, though, on unused Dexter Press card 70243-B. Grade: 1

Code: 34000324
Price: $4.00
Charleston Light, Sullivan’s Island (South Carolina)
The main caption on this unused Dexter Press card 87991-B reads: “AMERICA’S MOST POWERFUL LIGHTHOUSE” and goes on to say that this is “the most powerful lighthouse in North and South America–second most powerful in the world,” with 28 million candlepower. That kind of claim is a challenge for us, so we went to Google. It’s amazing how many different ways there are to claim to be “most powerful” and also how many different lighthouses claim this … but Wikipedia tells us that the power of Charleston Light was reduced from 28 million to 1.2 million because the original output was “too dazzling.” The things we learn, including that Michigan has the most lighthouses in the USA. Grade: 1

Code: 34000325
Price: $4.00
Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Shelburne (Vermont, USA)
There’s a lot in this unused Mike Roberts card C8364 (and VT772). Best just to quote the caption: “Famous sidewheeler Ticonderoga and Colchester Reef Lighthouse both brought from Lake Champlain to Shelburne Museum”. Maybe the Ticonderoga brought the lighthouse? Grade: 1

Code: 34000326
Price: $4.00
Old Point Comfort Lighthouse, Fort Monroe (Virginia)
Unused card of a lighthouse built in 1802. Grade: 1

Code: 34000327
Price: $3.00
Cape Henry, New and Old Light Houses (Virginia, USA)
Mailed in 1908 with stamp and Portsmouth postmark, would be much nicer if two corners weren’t missing. Grade: 4

Code: 34000330
Price: $3.00
Long Beach Peninsula, North Head Light House (Washington)
Unused local card 410332, this landmark “on the south end of Long Beach Peninsula” having 3,500,000 candle power and built in 1896. Grade: 1

Code: 34000331
Price: $3.00
Old Spanish Lighthouse, Point Loma, San Diego (California)
Another old view of this well-photographed structure. Unused Western Publishing & Novelty Co. card 93462. Grade: 1

Code: 34000332
Price: $4.00
Westport Lighthouse (Washington, USA)
Unused local card 36754. Grade: 1

Code: 34000333
Price: $3.00
Devon, Ilfracombe, Lantern Rock and Coast (England)
Unused “Dainty” Series card 2488. There really is a lighthouse in the picture. Can you see it? Grade: 2

Code: 34000335
Price: $4.00
$Devon, Ilfracombe, Lantern Rock and Coast (England)$
Northumberland, Berwick-on-Tweed, Promenade and Pier (England)
Valentine’s Series card, unnumbered and unused, and though the lighthouse is half the size of a grain of rice, it’s there at the end of the pier. Grade: 1

Code: 34000336
Price: $4.00
Guernsey, Dog & Lion Rocks, Moulin Huet (England)
Mailed in 1905 with stamp and Guernsey postmark. On the front, look straight up from the G in Guernsey, and–on the horizon–that’s a lighthouse. We think. Grade: 1

Code: 34000337
Price: $6.00
Cape Neddick (The Nubble) Light, York (Maine)
Unused Mike Roberts card C25076 (and ME1488). Grade: 1

Code: 34000338
Price: $3.00
Yaltinskyi Lighthouse, Black Sea (Ukraine)
No. 8 in the series of “Lighthouses of Ukraine,” mailed from there with three stamps and most of two postmarks in 2012. Grade: 1

Code: 34000339
Price: $4.00
Generic lighthouse
This internet card made in, and mailed from, Ukraine in 2012 has five stamps and a small Par Avion label but unfortunately does not identify the lighthouse. If we had endless time to search, we would, but we don’t. Grade: 1

Code: 34000340
Price: $1.00
Mile Rock Light House, Golden Gate (San Francisco)
Unused Souvenir Publishing Company card 341, significantly mottled and aged and with some abrasion on the reverse–but it’s old. Grade: 3

Code: 34000341
Price: $5.00

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