Museums – Global Postcard Sales

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Buffalo Bill Museum (Colorado)
Miniature (3″ x 4-1/4″) album of ten cards, from 1950s or 1960s, all meant to be sent together as a souvenir. Has a red rubber stamp of authenticity on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 34400001
Price: $20.00
Natural History Museum (Chicago)

Unused Dexter / Nelson Jones card 55156-B of the museum, formerly the Field Museum of Natural History, which was founded in 1893. Grade: 2

Code: 34400003
Price: $1.00
Madame Tussauds (Hong Kong)
Not all that easy to get, we had to go up to Victoria Peak, to the Madame Tussauds souvenir shop, and these cards were sort of tucked away. Considering we were the only people anywhere around, it’s a minor miracle the shop was open at all. Two of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34400004
Price: $5.00
Miho Museum (Kyoto, Japan)
Mailed in early 2000s, with stamp intact and postmark mostly legible. Would be undamaged except that ink from a red Par Avion stamp on the card sitting on top of it at the post office has transferred itself. Grade: 3

Code: 34400006
Price: $4.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, dry goods store (Wisconsin)
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 34400007
Price: $1.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, Apotheke (Wisconsin)
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 34400008
Price: $1.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, Grand Avenue (Wisconsin)
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 34400009
Price: $1.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, more Grand Avenue (Wisconsin)
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 34400010
Price: $1.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, Kuhm General Store (Wisconsin)
The last of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 34400011
Price: $1.50
National Museum (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Two 1991 cards are available, in identical condition: stamp OK, full postmark, a little bit of edge buffeting. Grades: 2

Code: 34400012
Price: $4.00
National Museum (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Two cards, mailed a year apart, early 90s. Each has a stamp, partly legible postmark, and a little ink smudge on the front. Grades: 3

Code: 34400013
Price: $4.00
National Museum (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
We wish the caption identified the aircraft but, alas, it doesn’t. Might get that from the museum’s website? Card was mailed in 1991, stamp intact but heavily postmarked. Corner creasing. Grade: 3

Code: 34400015
Price: $4.00
Hong Kong Palace Museum (set of 8)
Issued in 2022 as “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 69”, these unused cards (one only appears in the scan) have coloured airmail postage printed and ready for use. The set is undisturbed in its original plastic wrap. And the Museum? As of this writing, newly opened (Grade: 1, $22). Then we have one more set where each card has a special philatelic postmark (Grade: 1, $24).

Code: 34400016
Price: $22.00
Chicago, Field Columbian Museum (Illinois, USA)
This card was mailed in Chicago in 1911 and shows every day of it, yet manages to be still in decent condition. The stamp and postmark are there; the message is in a language of which we have absolutely no idea. Grade: 2

Code: 34400017
Price: $3.00
Cultural Museum (Melaka, Malaysia)
Three cards are available. All were mailed in 1990 or 91, have a stamp and partial postmarks. Two are quite clean on front (Grade: 2, $4) and one has a little postmark ink smudge on front (Grade: 3, $3.50).

Code: 34400018
Price: $4.00
Tutankhamun couch, Cairo Museum
To be precise, this couch of King Tut represents Goddess Hathor 18th Dynasty and is in the Egyptian Museum. But the card is not that old. It was mailed in 1976, and while the senders were in Cairo, they had to use a mail pouch service so it has a USA stamp and postmark. Serrated edges, and some postal markings on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 34400021
Price: $3.00
Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

Unused Rembrandt card 20 with serrated edges from 1969, noticeably aging more than usual on the reverse, though the front is good. Grade: 3

Code: 34400023
Price: $2.50
Viking Ships Museum, Oseberg ship (Oslo)
Unused Mittet card 1328/14, with serrated edges, from 1969. Somewhat stark, but it shows what it’s supposed to show. Grade: 1

Code: 34400025
Price: $2.50
Auschwitz and Birkenau (folio)
Three as-new folios are available, from 1992, each containing nine cards and a historical summary of these locations. The cards can be used as postcards, of course, but the message sections are largely pre-printed, quite possibly to save writers from having to describe the wretchedness of it all. Grades: 1

Code: 34400027
Price: $24.00
Topkapi Museum, case (Istanbul)
Technically this could be under “Malaysia” since it was issued in conjunction with the 1990 World of Islamic Civilization Expo there. Two cards are available, each mailed in Malaysia in 1991. One has a Perak stamp and a rare double postmark from two different cities (Grade: 2, $6). The other has a Pulau Pinang stamp (Grade: 1, $4). Caption says this card portrays “Silver case containing sand sample from the grave of Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. Topkapi Museum, Istanbul.” One perforated edge on each card.

Code: 34400029
Price: $6.00
Topkapi, dagger (Istanbul)
Card mailed in 1969, with two stamps and full postmark, as well as blue airmail sticker affixed. Very minor edge abrasions. Grade: 2

Code: 34400030
Price: $7.00
Topkapi Museum, capsule (Istanbul)
The Al-Hajar Al-Aswad capsule belongs to Topkapi Museum in Turkey but is pictured on a World of Islamic Civilization Expo 1990 card from Malaysia. Card was mailed in Malaysia in 1990, one Sabah stamp and full postmark. Minor abrasion on reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 34400031
Price: $4.00
Sayyidina Ali sword, Topkapi Museum (Istanbul)
Actually this card comes from the 1990 World of Islamic Civilization Expo in Malaysia, but as it features a Turkish property, the card goes here. Mailed in Malaysia in 1991, the card is 4″ x 7″ due to an extra perforated stub on the left side. Grade: 2

Code: 34400032
Price: $5.00
Motor Speedway Museum, interior (Indianapolis, USA)
Unused card, vintage 1960s, of the 500 Mile Race Museum. The card itself (Curteichcolor 4DK-1199) is published by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation and shows the Maserati that Wilbur Shaw drove to victory in the 1939 and 1940 races. Presumably the museum has expanded greatly since then. Grade: 1

Code: 34400033
Price: $3.00
Milwaukee Public Museum, saloon (Wisconsin)
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 34400035
Price: $1.50
Panorama from the Correale Museum, Sorrento (Italy)
Mailed from Naples in 1966 with a stamp and full postmark, and “Via Aerea” rubber stamp also, the card is an absolutely typical tourist card right down to the small thumbtack hole through the top. Grade: 5

Code: 34400036
Price: $3.50
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: 34400037
Price: $4.00
National Railroad Museum, Green Bay (Wisconsin)
Proudly mailed in 1975 by a very, very young child, from Green Bay with a mostly-legible postmark and an 8-cent Eisenhower stamp. It’s the Wisconsin & Yesterday R.R. Serious abrasions on front. Grade: 5

Code: 34400039
Price: $0.50
Brunei Museum, miniature cannon
We’d guess there are not so many Brunei cards around, and not with the stamp and a full postmark from Bandar Seri Begawan in 1984. The writer knows how to write but couldn’t write, and if you buy the card we will tell you the story. Grade: 1

Code: 34400040
Price: $9.00
Buffalo Bill Museum (Cody, Wyoming)
Unused card from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center of the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming. Grade: 1

Code: 34400042
Price: $3.00
Buffalo Bill Museum, Annie Oakley (Wyoming)
Unused card of an 1890 poster at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming. Miss Annie Oakley – The Peerless Lady Wing-Shot. Grade: 2

Code: 34400043
Price: $3.00
Bucharest, “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum – Folk Events (Romania)
In Romanian, Muzeul Național al Satului ‘Dimitrie Gusti’ and a panorama of folk events on this unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 34400045
Price: $4.00
Denver Art Museum, Kuan Yin
Polychromed wood sculpture from the 10th century. But not the card, which was mailed in 1998 with a 50-cent Cochran stamp and nearly full Denver postmark. The address is on a label, and there’s postal barcoding on both sides of the card. Grade: 3

Code: 34400046
Price: $1.50
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (Spain)
A good postcard gone bad. The front: stain on bottom margin, together with orange postal bar coding. The reverse: mailed from France with a postage meter sticker priced dually in Francs and Euros; blue “Prioritaire” sticker affixed; and more bar coding, but this time black. It is what it is. Grade: 4

Code: 34400047
Price: $1.50
Denver Museum of Natural History, Coffin of Ramses II
This card measures 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ and was mailed in 1987 with a 33-cent Verville stamp and fully legible Denver postmark. The dark tone magnifies a bit of edge abrasion and bumping. Grade: 2

Code: 34400048
Price: $2.00
Money Museum, barter trade item (Malaysia)
Card was mailed in 1991, with Wilayah Persekutuan stamp but only half of a postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34400049
Price: $2.50
Money Museum, Bank Negara Malaysia, Japanese coins
Card was mailed in 1991 and has the stamp but postmark is mostly missing. Grade: 2

Code: 34400050
Price: $1.50
Cluj-Napoca Art Museum (Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca) (Romania)
A fine art museum in a baroque building featuring works by major Romanian & Hungarian artists. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 34400051
Price: $4.00
Topkapi Museum, golden case
Disclaimer: the item (and photo) are from Topkapi Museum, the card was printed and issued in Malaysia in connection with the 1990 World of Islamic Civilization Expo. Mailed in 1991 with Negeri Sembilan stamp and partial postmark, the card has a perforated edge where the non-card stub was removed. Grade: 4

Code: 34400052
Price: $1.00
Muzeul de Etnografie – BRAŞOV (Romania)
Postcards this big (6″ x 8-1/4″) are eye-catching but impractical … anyway, this one is unused and in excellent condition, which we will work hard to preserve. Extensive captioning on the reverse is entirely in Romanian. Grade: 1

Code: 34400053
Price: $5.00

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