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Airborne (USA)
Mailed from Kentucky with four stamps, three postmarks, USPS barcoding, and the most minor abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 2
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The Soldiers Institute, Khartoum (Sudan)
This G.N. Mohrig card C.-429, exceptionally, is in colour. There is no printed text on the reverse, though there is a written notation in ink, and also a circular mark where the inkwell clearly sat. Grade: 5
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Australian Troops Camp – Races, Meadi – near Heluan (Egypt)
Sepia card 35718, Serie M.16 from The Anglo Egyptian Trading Society – Cairo. Not postally used, but with explanatory message written on the reverse. Rare. Grade: 4
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Alexandrie – Baraques Moustafa Pacha
The Cairo Postcard Trust, Serie 529, B&W Card 61863. Not postally used, and with a handwritten message on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Alexandrie – Rue Attarine
The Cairo Postcard Trust, Serie 529, B&W Card 61861. Not postally used, and with a handwritten message on the reverse, as well as a significant abrasion on lower left front. Grade: 5
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The War Office, Khartoum (Sudan)
G.N. Morhig card No. 205. Grade: 4
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The Pool near Shekan, Kordofan (Sudan)
The full caption on this G.N. Morhig card No. 31 reads: “The Pool near Shekan, Kordofan, where Hicks Pasha’s Army was Annhilated, 5th Nov., 1883.” The writer’s notation on the reverse graphically explains a bit more. Grade: 4
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Native Chiefs and Soldiers in the Lado (Sudan)
Sudan Times “This is a Real Photo” card No. H 33. Pasted album remnant on the reverse. Grade: 5
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Three Servicemen Statue (Washington, DC)
Mailed in 2012 with five different stamps (three of them uncancelled), barcoding, and address label affixed. Grade: 3
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Fragment of the exposition of Brest Fortress defense museum (Belarus)
Mailed from Minsk with four different stamps and legible postmark. The printed date is 2010. Grade: 1
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Black Hawk Insertion (USA)
The caption gives much more information about this U.S. Army aircraft. The card was mailed in 2012 from USA with five stamps, three Fort Hood postmarks, and postal abrasions scattered around the edges on both sides. Grade: 3
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Seafortress off Helsinki (Finland)
Mailed with an Aurora borealis stamp and Priority label, but not legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Join the Army Nurse Corps (USA)
Reproduction of a wartime poster, mailed from Netherlands with stamp, postmark, Priority, and another small name label. Grade: 4
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Cavaleriemuseum Amersfoort, St. Jorisgebouw (Netherlands)
The sender of this card offered a concise and useful explanation of the photo, when he mailed the card in 2012 with stamp and priority label. Illegible postmark. Grade: 1
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Zaporizhian Sich (Ukraine)
Brilliant, unused 4″ x 7-7/8″ card. The story in the caption is interesting, informing that this place was “socio-political, grassroot, military organization of Ukranian cossacks,” and goes on from there. Grade: 1
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Saratoga Battlefield, Memorial Pavilion and D.A.R. Monument, Bemis Heights (New York)
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone linen card 7A-H1193. Grade: 1
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U.S. Marine Memorial, Wake Island
Unused H.S. Crocker card. Grade: 1
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US Naval Training Center Fire Fighting School, San Diego (California)
Unused but somewhat smudged Dexter Press card 71813-B. Grade: 2
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US Naval Training Center Fire Fighting School – fire, San Diego (California)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belgian Air Force
It would seem someone important is on board that aircraft. Mailed in 2012 with stamp and postmark. There’s a small postal abrasion that shows as a vertical line below the plane. Grade: 3
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Camp Pendleton, 1st Marine Division (California)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Leipzig, Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Germany)
Mailed in 1929 with stamp and (very) full postmark, this aged card shows the Monument to the Battle of the Nations, the 1813 Battle of Leipzig. The monument was completed in 1913 and commemorates Napoleon’s defeat at Leipzig, which helped end hostilities in the War of the Sixth Coalition. So there. Grade: 1
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1945 – U.S. Soldiers in France
This very heavily handled card is unused. On the reverse, the message area is pre-printed with: “MY ADDRESS IS__________ CO., ________________, PARIS ISLAND, S.C.” (“Paris”-sic, should be Parris) so this card was most likely for recruits or draftees to send from Basic Training. Grade: 3
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Old Fort Sill (Oklahoma)
Unused “local” card 47482 with a short but detailed caption, including: “Apache Prisoner of War Blacksmith Shop (Replica).” Grade: 2
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Torpedoboot bei schwerem Seegang (Germany)
Here’s what we can tell you about this sepia card: it was mailed, because there’s a 1917 postmark (and date on the mostly unreadable message) but there is no sign there was ever any stamp on the front or the back. Printed attribution: “155 W.B. Levy, Hamburg Zensur Altona 527”. Clearly from World War One. We’re not certain how to grade this because of the stamp issue, but because the front is so good we will call it Grade: 2
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Support Our Troops (Canada)
Unused, unattributed card. Grade: 1
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One Mission : One Team (Canada)
Unused 5″ x 7″ card with artwork of the National Support Element, Joint Task Force Afghanistan. Grade: 1
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Ottawa, Bank of Canada Currency Museum Poster for 1st Victory Loan Campaign
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-1/2″ card from 2011. Grade: 1
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Historic Gettysburg Battlefield and Tour Bus (Pennsylvania)
Unused Lusterchrome card K-10040. The caption is Replete with Florid Detail. Grade: 1
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OH-58 Kiowa (USA)
U.S. Army Reconnaisance Helicopter. Did you fly one of these? Then you need the postcard, to pass along to your children and grandchildren. Mailed in 2013 with two stamps and postmark. Orange postal barcoding on the front, faintly visible. Grade: 2
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The Fall of Richmond, Virginia (USA)
This is a Currier and Ives lithograph of the April, 1865 U.S. Civil War event. The card is not so old, of course, being mailed in 2013 with stamp and unusually clear postmark. Some minor USPS processing abrasion on the back, and faint orange barcoding on the front. Grade: 3
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The Sinking of the Fascist A.A. Cruiser Niobe (USSR)
This is an unused, Soviet-era (1976) card whose reverse is almost entirely taken up with the story of the event, in Russian. It would be awkward but not impossible to mail this as a postcard in the normal way. Grade: 1
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Mogilev, monument to fallen soldiers (Belarus)
The problem with this picture is the scan quality, not the card. No matter what we do, we can’t get a decent scan. There should be no lines in the sky; you should be seeing a normal, blue sky with a few clouds. No idea what the problem is, but it’s not the card’s fault. Mailed in 2013 with three stamps and two postmarks, and some orange postal barcoding. Grade: 2
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San Diego, Marine Corps Recruit Depot (California)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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1945 Military aircraft (Russia)
The card was made in 2011 and mailed in 2013; it has pre-paid postage but another stamp (and full Moscow postmark) are placed over that. Much text on both sides, all in Russian. Grade: 1
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Halifax, Soldiers Monument, Province Buildings Square (Canada)
Vintage Valentine & Sons card, mailed in what might be 1910 but two overlapping postmarks make that hard to read. The stamp is still there. Grade: 3
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1945 Military tank (Russia)
From the same series as our entry 34200126, mailed in 2013 with three stamps (including an enormous one of a bear) and equally large postmark. Address label affixed. Grade: 4
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Naval Review, April 1893 (R. Bracklow) (USA)
Gelatin silver print in the New-York Historical Society, and the postcard mailed from USA in 2013 with round Global Forever stamp and New York postmark, along with USPS barcoding on both sides. Grade: 3
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Bath County, Battle of Warm Springs “Cannon Crew” (Virginia, USA)
Unused, very slightly aging card from the Bath County Chamber of Commerce. Grade: 1
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Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage (Alaska)
Unused card. Grade: 1