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Jonesboro, Main Street Looking North (Arkansas, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 9A700-N. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Main Street at Night (Utah, USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card ES-35, with Salt Lake City “long recognized as a most beautiful city”. Grade: 1
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Center Street, Pocatello (Idaho, USA)
Early 1900s unused Edward H. Mitchell card #8. Aging appropriately. We’re making a very small exception to the policy that a “Main Street” postcard should say “Main Street,” because if this isn’t Main Street, then what is? Grade: 2
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Montpelier, Main Street, looking South (Vermont, US)
This is a nice card, mailed in the winter of 1918 with two stamps and two postmarks. Why do we like this postcard in particular? It can be hard to say that any one card or another captures its own era perfectly, but this one–with its message and artwork and everything else manages to do that. Grade: 1
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Barre, Vermont (USA)
Nice representation of main street postcards, this was mailed in 1931, with stamp and postmark and the usual semi-legible handwriting that should have left the recipient scratching her head. Grade: 3
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Saybrook (Connecticut, USA)
Not postally used, but Ethel had a shop on Main Street and she noted this (on the reverse) by putting a small X on the front. Grade: 4
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Winchcombe, multiple views (England)
Mailed in the 1980s (we think; the postmark’s not clear) with an airmail sticker and a barely noticeable thumbtack hole. The scenes, including High Street, are identified in the caption. Grade: 4
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Osaka, Midosuji (Japan)
Midōsuji Avenue is the primary main street in central Osaka, running north-south, passing Umeda, Nakanoshima, Shinsaibashi, Dōtonbori, Ame-mura, and Namba districts. The Midōsuji Line subway runs under it. This mid-20th-century unused black and white postcard is a brilliant representation of the city at that time. Grade: 1
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Ayr, Tam o’Shanter Museum, High Street (Scotland)
Once in awhile Google runs amok with false leads and this is one of those cases. But it’s all about Robert Burns, and the building here is reputed to be the inn described in one of Burns’s famous poems. This postcard was mailed in 1978, with stamp and clear postmark (Ayr) and bilingual airmail sticker — but also with two thumbtack holes at the top. Grade: 5
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Main Street (Macau)
An absolutely unparalleled early 20th-century real-photo view of the very heart of Macau, barely recognizable now. Unused. Grade: 1
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Dover, Greetings (Delaware, USA)
This unused Dexter Press card 10288-B (DD-86) is about as iconic as a circa-1950s postcard can be. It is exactly as we would have wanted to receive, and we hope you would, too. The caption is quite detailed, and calls Loockerman Street “the main street of Dover”. Grade: 1
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Rib Lake, Main Street (Wisconsin, USA)
Looking like so many other small towns, Rib Lake’s Main Street appears on this real-photo card mailed in 1949 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Wisconsin Dells, Main Street (USA)
Of the many, *many* views of Ducks on the Dells, this unused real-photo postcard stands out as a must-have for anyone specialising in cards of this region. So few people … Grade: 1
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Clovelly, High Street (England)
Mailed in 1974 with 3p stamp and postmark. With serrated edges, a classic “main street postcard” — and with apologies to British English. Grade: 1
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South Fallsburg, Main Street (New York, USA)
When you have this unused Dexter Press card 27021 (17) in your hand, the colours look almost radioactive. Eye-catching to say the least; no smog there. Grade: 1