Military – Global Postcard Sales

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Air Force Academy chapel (Colorado)
From the 1970s, unused Dexter Press card #4350 (10×17574-C) with serrated edges and an inked indication on reverse that the organ has 5000+ pipes. Front is as-new. Yes,it’s ironic this should be the first card in the “Military” category, but life is full of ironies. Grade: 3

Code: 34200001
Price: $2.00
U.S.S. Arizona Memorial (Honolulu)
This unused card was bought in 1963 and tucked away. It’s as-new apart from mild aging on the reverse. It has three printed attributions on the back, so we’ll call it Nani Li’i card S-255. Grade: 1

Code: 34200002
Price: $3.50
U.S.S. Arizona (Honolulu)
Unused Nani Li’i card S-191, dating from some point between the raising of the flagpole in 1950 and construction of the memorial itself in 1961. Grade: 1

Code: 34200003
Price: $5.00
Fort Ticonderoga (New York)
Unused Dexter Press card 72591-B from the 1960s, serrated edges, aging on the reverse, showing an air view facing inner Courtyard of Place d’Armes and South Barracks; West Barracks on right; ruins of East Barracks on left. Some corner creasing, not major. Grade: 2

Code: 34200004
Price: $2.50
Ft. Ticonderoga, Monument to Scottish Regiment (New York)
Unused 1960s card of this monument to “The Black Watch” Scottish Regiment involved in a 1758 battle. Grade: 1

Code: 34200005
Price: $1.00
Custer Battlefield, 7th Cavalry (USA)
Real photo historic postcard bought in 1970 at Crow Agency, though of course it could have been 90 years earlier and looked the same. Unmailed, as-new. Grade: 1

Code: 34200006
Price: $3.00
World War II Memorial (Omaha, Nebraska, USA)
Dexter Press unused card DT-5018-C from 1965. Some aging, and a bit of battering around the edges. Grade: 2

Code: 34200007
Price: $2.50
Continental Army huts in Winter, Valley Forge (Pennsylvania)
Unused Jack Freeman card K-19238. Grade: 1

Code: 34200008
Price: $1.00
Washington’s HQ, Valley Forge (Pennsylvania)
Unused Jack Freeman card K-3967, just beginning to age. Grade: 1

Code: 34200009
Price: $1.00
Fort Washington, Valley Forge (Pennsylvania)
Two Jack Freeman cards 97280 are available. One is unused (Grade: 2, $1) and the other was mailed in 1971 with 8-cent stamp and partial postmark (Grade: 2, $1.50).

Code: 34200010
Price: $1.00
Fort Laramie (Wyoming)
Can’t help thinking they might have found a more interesting view, but anyhow this was made in 1960s, is unused, Mike Roberts card C22001, and really as-new. Grade: 1

Code: 34200013
Price: $2.50
Military Museum (Montreal)
Never-mailed Plastichrome card P57388 of Louis XV Old Fort on St. Helen’s Island, bought in Quebec in 1966. Reverse is slowly aging and lower two corners of front have tiniest abrasions. Grade: 2

Code: 34200016
Price: $4.00
Zapata’s soldiers, San Angel (Mexico)
A 1909 photo on a 1993 card. Mailed, with stamps intact but postmark is not readable. Card is in sepia tone, has very minor creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 34200018
Price: $4.00
War Memorial Center (Milwaukee)
This Memorial, overlooking Lake Michigan, has a commemorative mosaic covering World War Two and the Korean War. Or it did at the time this unused card was printed. Grade: 2

Code: 34200019
Price: $1.00
War Memorial Center (Milwaukee)
Substantially different view from card #10150027. The War Memorial Center housed the Milwaukee Art center and is an Eero Saarinen building. This unused L.L. Cook card 16036-B (and 310Z) dates from 1961. Grade: 1

Code: 34200020
Price: $1.00
Monument and Russian Canet-gun, Port Arthur (Manchuria)
In case it’s hard to read, let us repeat the caption: H.I.H. Prince Fushimi’s writing on War Monument tablet, Port Arthur (together with) Russian Canet-gun at Hakugyokuzan Hill, Port Arthur. That should give you plenty to research. This otherwise unused card has a large pink explanatory chop on the front, with residue on the reverse as well. A lot of history here. Grade: 2

Code: 34200021
Price: $9.00
Bismark Fort after war, Tsingtau (PR China)
Unused, aging card with pale brown caption on bottom front. A little online research is probably in order unless you know about this already. The photo is clear but it’s hard to make out just what happened. Grade: 2

Code: 34200022
Price: $6.00
Ryojun (Port Arthur, Lushun) interview place (PR China)
The caption, which may be too tiny for the scan, says: “The spot where General Nogi interviewed General Stoesslor, Suishiei, Ryojun.” The only way we could find in Google to learn anything about this was to enter “Suishiei” because there were so many different spellings of Stoesslor, and sure enough, the meeting was in 1904 at this location near Dalian at the time of the Russo-Japanese war. Japanese general Nogi Maresuke and Russian general Anatoly Mikhailovich Stessel (Stoesslor?) agreed on a cease-fire in that house, which was owned by a doctor. Apparently the agreement was signed on the operating table. The card came later, of course. Grade: 2

Code: 34200023
Price: $5.00
Ryojun (Port Arthur) Monument for dead members of Third Blockade Expedition (PR China)
Another unused card from the Russo-Japanese War group. We won’t attempt to explain this one. Grade: 2

Code: 34200024
Price: $6.00
Refloated blockader, Port Arthur (Manchuria)
Another unused Russo-Japanese War card, another battle aftermath. Grade: 2

Code: 34200026
Price: $6.00
Japanese military, Sikh guard, more … (Shanghai, China)
A whole lot of symbolism in this unused Matsumura card from Kanda, Tokyo. Surprisingly few cards from this company turn up on Google. Grade: 2

Code: 34200027
Price: $12.00

Battery Shojuzan after war Ryojun

Antique postcard, unused, in excellent shape apart from normal aging. We think this was in the Port Arthur area so this card might better have been placed in the “China” category but other Port Arthur postcards may be found there. Grade: 2

Code: 34200028

Price: $5.00

Soldier and family (Japan)
Our good friend Tomizawa-san advises the literal and contextual meaning of the caption “the way to dazzling East Asia” during the imperialist era of 1931-1945. Doesn’t it look like it could be any military family anywhere? The artist may be Riichiro Kawashima, internationally active at that time. Meanwhile, it’s an unused card, normally aged. Grade: 2

Code: 34200029
Price: $19.00
Fairgrounds (Japan)
From the presence of the general public, we’re thinking this might be a military fairground or display area of some sort. If you can read Japanese, you’ll know right away. Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 34200030
Price: $12.00
Panmunjom from the North (DPR Korea) (set of 10)
Set of ten different, unused North Korea postcards showing the Panmunjom DMZ from the north. Many people have visited from the south. Here’s a chance to look the other direction. The language used for cards and cover is Russian: no English and no Korean. One corner of cover is folded. This was published in DPRK in 1990, and the view has changed since these pictures were taken. Grade: 1

Code: 34200031
Price: $89.00
Corregidor, Mile Long Barracks
Memories will fade and the climate is now the enemy. Unused card with a couple of marks on the reverse made by the original seller. Grade: 2

Code: 34200032
Price: $3.00
Missionary cathedrals and the military (Vietnam)
On this unused Asia-Pacific Color Productions card SC11919, the exact caption reads: “Missionary cathedrals dot the countryside in South Vietnam.” Yes, they do/did, but the card shows more than a cathedral. Grade: 1

Code: 34200033
Price: $11.00
Defence forces parachute at sunset (Israel)
This Palphot 8654 card was bought in 1974 but never mailed. It has minor edge and corner abrasions on front, but significantly aged reverse, otherwise unmarked. Grade: 3

Code: 34200034
Price: $12.00
Banias, one source of River Jordan
Caption doesn’t reveal the major political statement made by the photograph. This unused 1974 Palphot 9275 card has abrasions on front, and the reverse is significantly stained. Grade: 5

Code: 34200035
Price: $6.00
Israeli troops at Wailing Wall (Jerusalem)
Unmailed Palphot 8324 card from 1974, great condition on the front, and gently aged on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 34200036
Price: $6.50
Amphibian Tank produced in USSR
This 1974 Isranof card was never mailed. It has very minor edge and corner abrasions on front. Reverse is basically perfect. Grade: 2

Code: 34200037
Price: $9.00
Israeli soldiers at Suez Canal
Two Palphot 8307 cards are available, 1974 vintage. One is unused and as-new (Grade: 1, $7.50). The other was mailed and does have the stamp, but the card was then taped (probably on an office board) and when tape was removed it took postmark and much of the message with it. Also looks like it was stapled (Grade: 5, $2).

Code: 34200038
Price: $7.50
MIG 21 fighter bomber (Israel)
If there were “lines” on this 1974 Palphot 8746 card, you could read between them, though you do need a sense of history. Unused, minor edge abrasions on front, and beginning to age a bit on reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 34200039
Price: $9.00
Women military police (Israel)
1974 unused card, Isranof 797, as-new condition. Grade: 1

Code: 34200040
Price: $6.00
1913 Battle
Google is surprisingly unhelpful about the background to this event, or we just don’t understand. Probably the latter. Presume the unused card was printed after 1913–but not much later. Heavily aged on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 34200042
Price: $16.00
Magasins Militaires du Depot d’Armee (Leopoldville, Congo)
This is a spectacularly uninteresting Tropica Prisma postcard unless you have particular interest in military goods storage, in which case it’s just what you want. Not sure of date (1940s?) but it’s a real photo and apart from obviously yellowed reverse is unmarked and in very good condition. Grade: 2

Code: 34200043
Price: $9.00
Army Recruitment (Singapore)
Unused recruitment card for a career in the Singapore Army. Grade: 1

Code: 34200044
Price: $2.00
A Fight of Field Artillery Regiment
Not sure where or when the Fight was, probably during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 or so. Unused card, printed in Japan, aging and yellowing heavily but otherwise undamaged. Grade: 3

Code: 34200045
Price: $6.00
Corregidor
Multiple scenes of this historic site on a card mailed in 1998 with two stamps and partial postmark. Right reverse edge has some abrasion. Grade: 3

Code: 34200046
Price: $5.00
Commercial Square, soldiers returning from reception (Singapore)
Extraordinary piece of WWI history. Max Hilckes card showing return of soldiers was never mailed and is undamaged. Nicely aged reverse. Beautiful, and really this postcard is a prize catch. Grade: 1

Code: 34200047
Price: $70.00

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