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Postcards from Romania by Eugen Mihai (set of 10)
The ten glossy, unused cards in this set produced by Romanian military photographer Eugen Mihai are all shown on its paper cover. Each postcard has a complete and informative bilingual (English/Romanian) caption and represents one or another of a variety of scenes around the country — including a fortress, IAR 99 Standard military jet trainers, TR-85 M1 battle tank, Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament, Castelui Peles (Sinaia), the training ship “Mircea”, night view from Bucharest’s North Railway Station, Horezu Monastery, The Gate of the Kiss, and Hunyadi Castle. This great set came to us via our friend Tatiana, and — given the special circumstances of the cards’ production — if you read this and want to order directly from Mr. Mihai, we’ll tell you how to do that. Or, of course, this set from us. Grade: 1

Code: 34200299
Price: $12.00
U.S. Air Force Academy, Cadet Chapel (Colorado Springs, USA)
This is the single building on that campus that always appears on postcards. God would be pleased. Unused card 2DK-1671 (591). Grade: 1

Code: 34200300
Price: $1.00
Gettysburg, High Water Mark (Pennsylvania, USA)
The caption on this unmailed card would be considered politically incorrect now, thanks to one word, but that was then and this is now. The scene depicts the U.S. Civil War’s point marking “the end of Pickett’s Charge and from it the defeated Confederate troops fell back …” The card has an August, 1963 date written above the caption. Grade: 3

Code: 34200301
Price: $2.00
Gettysburg, Warren Monument (Pennsylvania, USA)
This unmailed card’s breathless caption tells what happened there during the Civil War but nothing about the man in the statue, so we will fill in that blank for you (from an online source): “The monument to Brigadier General Gouverneur Kemble Warren is on Little Round Top. General Warren (West Point Class of 1850) was Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg.” The card has an August 1963 date written above the caption. Grade: 3

Code: 34200302
Price: $1.00
Soldier’s National Monument, Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, USA)
Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address here. Unused Plastichrome card P304656. Grade: 1

Code: 34200303
Price: $2.00
U.S. National Soldiers Home, Administration-Hospital Building, Biloxi (Mississippi, USA)
Unused, very mildly age-mottled E.C. Kropp card 7838N. Grade: 2

Code: 34200304
Price: $2.00
Slacker (France)
We believe this unused card was intended to be funny, but would understand if not everyone found it to be so. Lafayette Serie No. 032. Aging but clean. Grade: 1

Code: 34200305
Price: $4.00
Hualien, Pine Garden (set of 7) (Taiwan)
The Pine Garden (traditional Chinese: 松園別館; simplified Chinese: 松园别馆) is a former Japanese military office. Built in 1943 during Japanese rule as a military office, after the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945 the facility was used as a vacation resort for the United States Armed Forces. In 2000, the Hualien County Government designated the area as a historical building. The government renovated it into a cultural center and the Council for Cultural Affairs opened it as a tourist attraction in 2001. Our scan shows the reverse cardboard cover (and thumbnail images) of the seven unused 4-1/8″ x 9-5/8″ cards in the set. Grades: 1

Code: 34200306
Price: $18.00
Harpers Ferry, John Brown’s Fort (West Virginia, USA)
Among other observations in the caption of this unused card, we see “Many say that Brown provided the spark that launched the United States into a Civil War.” Grade: 1

Code: 34200307
Price: $3.00
Squad (France)
Beginning a short series of unused B&W cards provided by our friend Linda, who wrote as explanation: “The glider and foreign-looking ones were in France, around 1943-44 … I do not know if my father took them or if someone gave them to him. My dad was there during WWII. He was a 1st Lt at the time. He was a glider pilot as well as a parachutist. He was in the Quartermaster Corp.” These are, then, real-photo cards with lines for mailing on the back, but no captions. Grade: 1

Code: 34200308L
Price: $3.00
City Street (France)
See our entry 34200308L. Unused, but with almost imperceptible blank white patches on the reverse corners. Grade: 3

Code: 34200309L
Price: $3.00
Ship (France)
See our entry 34200308L. Unused, but with almost imperceptible blank white patches on the reverse corners. Grade: 3

Code: 34200310L
Price: $3.00
Parachutes (France)
See our entry 34200308L. Unused, but with small blank white patches on the reverse corners and one that left a small mark. Grade: 3

Code: 34200311L
Price: $3.00
Crowd (France)
See our entry 34200308L. Unused, but with almost imperceptible blank white patches on the reverse corners. And this card ends our series. Grade: 3

Code: 34200312L
Price: $3.00
Minot Air Force Base (North Dakota, USA)
The main entrance gate to the base, on this unused postcard. We will counter that slogan with a bumper sticker we used to see when we lived in nearby Grand Forks (three times!) many years ago: “40 Below Keeps the Riff-Raff Away”. It does indeed. Grade: 1

Code: 34200313
Price: $3.00
Wisconsin Dells, Ducks in Service near Anzio (USA)
Despite what it looks like, this unused card D-130 comes from the Wisconsin Dells company running Duck tours and would probably have been issued in the 1960s in the USA. Grade: 1

Code: 34200314
Price: $2.00
Wisconsin Dells, Troop Laden Duck on Invasion Road So. France (USA)
Despite what it looks like, this unused card D-219 comes from the Wisconsin Dells company running Duck tours and would probably have been issued in the 1960s in the USA. Grade: 1

Code: 34200315
Price: $2.00
Statul Major (Romania)
An official, unused, post-paid card from Post Romana. Google translates that red legend as: “The General Staff of the Land Forces … Anywhere, anytime, on duty!” Patriotic indeed. Grade: 1

Code: 34200316
Price: $3.00
Vienna, Museum of Military History (Austria)
HGM (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) in Vienna, on an unmailed card whose reverse has a long message. Grade: 4

Code: 34200317
Price: $1.00

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