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Vantaa, The Finnish Aviation Museum (Finland)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, Priority, and faint postmark. Grade: 2
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Kraevoi Museum, Mammoth (Perm, Russia)
One stamp and a huge, clear postmark. Grade: 1
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Schaakstukken Museum artwork, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
In Dutch: Schilderij geschilderd door Eveline van Rooy. Not postally used, but with a message written on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Yukon Transportation Museum, Whitehorse (Canada)
Unused card with photo of Douglas DC-3 CF-CPY, which really is just as the front caption describes: The World’s Largest Weather Vane. Grade: 1
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The Cabildo, New Orleans (Louisiana)
In 1944, A.P. remarked to Mrs. Jones about New Orleans’s “oldness” in this linen card, mailed with one stamp and postmark, and some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Netherlands Openluchtmuseum
The caption on the reverse, in Dutch, takes up about two-thirds of the message space. The card was mailed in 2012 with stamp and mostly legible postmark. Grade: 1
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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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Kern County Museum, Pioneer Village (California)
The caption is long and full of information, but this scene is part of Kern County Museum’s Pioneer Village in Bakersfield. Unused card H-5248. Grade: 2
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Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Illinois)
Unused, aging, unattributed card. Grade: 2
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Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Illinois)
Unused, aging, unattributed card. Grade: 2
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Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Room dated about 1750
Unused. Grade: 2
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Bank of Canada Currency Museum, Ottawa
Unused, larger (4-3/4″ x 6-1/2″) card issued by the bank in 2011. The photo, however, was apparently taken in 1950. Grade: 1
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Amana Home children’s room (Iowa, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 8207-B (and A12). Grade: 2
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Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba (Brazil)
Mailed in 2012 with two large stamps and four even larger postmarks. Great condition and perfect for a collection of contemporary Brazil postcards. Grade: 1
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Myslowice, Centraine Muzeum Pozarnictwa – firefighters (Poland)
A very nice contemporary card showing posters of firefighters, and as a bonus, one of the two large stamps also shows a firefighter. Two clear postmarks, and Priorytet label. To be honest, if you are a firefighter or know one, this would make a good gift or addition to your own collection. Grade: 1
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Spakenburg Museum (Netherlands)
Not postally used, but with lots of writing on the back. Grade: 4
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Tai Po Hui, Railway Museum (Hong Kong)
Unused card. They make this look so rural! Grade: 1
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Museum of Tea Wear (sic), Hong Kong
Unused card. This museum is located in one of Hong Kong’s oldest western (“Greek Revival style”) buildings. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Museum of Art
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Wine Museum, Wine-Press with horizontal wheel (Beaune, France)
For the wine lovers amongst us, this unused card. It’s beginning to age. The card, not the wine. Grade: 2
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Les Chantoux de Biane, Musee du Vin de Bourgogne (Beaune, France)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Wine Museum, Fly wine-press or “Grand Point” Bourgogne (Beaune, France)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Opevnění Jindřichohradecka (Czech Republic)
This is a domestic card with extensive captioning in Czech, including this: Navštivte Muzeum čs. opevnění 1938 – Klášter II, which means something like: Visit the Museum MS. fortification 1938 – Abbey II. The writer of the message on the card (mailed in 2012, two stamps, partial postmark) tried to explain everything, and probably did, if we have the patience. Grade: 1
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St. Petersburg, View of Palace Embankment and Hermitage (Russia)
Mailed in 2012, the card has a huge stamp that wraps around to the front, and a brilliantly full St. Petersburg postmark. BUT … the address and the message are on pasted labels. Grade: 4
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Hermitage Museum exhibition, St. Petersburg (Russia)
This is an unused card advertising an exhibition from 2010-2011. The message area is taken up by printed text in Russian only. Grade: 1
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Vampilova Museum, Kutulik (Russia)
Technically this is probably not a postcard. It is 4″ x 7-1/2″ and looks as though it may have been #10 in a set. The reverse has many lines of printed (Russian only) text extending into what would be the address area, and there is also a written message from the sender, who put it into an envelope. However it could easily have been mailed as a postcard if someone had wanted to do that. Grade: 4
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Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, Tellurion Clock (Chicago, USA)
Full credit to Wikipedia for this definition: “A tellurion (also spelled tellurian), is a clock, typically of French or Swiss origin, surmounted by a mechanism that depicts how day, night and the seasons are caused by the movement of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the sun. The clock normally also displays the age of the moon, and the four-year (perpetual) calendar. It is related to the orrery, which illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the solar system in a heliocentric model. The word tellurion derives from the Latin tellus, meaning Earth.” We just thought you wanted to know. Unused sepia card, highly aged. Grade: 2
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Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum (Chicago)
Unused card but it has a number inked above the postage area. Grade: 3
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Ottawa, SODART, Louise Bourgeois sculpture MAMAN (Canada)
Everything about this is confusing, including the name of the museum, the location of the sculpture, and even which of this artist’s sculptures it is. As best as we can determine, this is outside the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) despite what the caption says. The card was mailed in 2012 with four different and very large Canadian stamps totalling C$1.84 in value, none of them cancelled. Grade: 4
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Twin Lights marine museum, Highlands (New Jersey, USA)
Unused Mabel T. Burr watercolor postcard of a lighthouse 248′ above sea level overlooking Sandy Hook Bay, now partly used as a marine museum. Fading and mottling on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Children’s Museum of Taipei, My New Home! (Taiwan)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and light blue trilingual Air Mail sticker. Major postmarking on the front, courtesy of Hong Kong. Grade: 4
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Chateau de Fontainebleau (France)
This 4″ x 8-1/4″ card was mailed in 2012 with two “vegetable” stamps and mostly readable postmark. Minor corner abrasions. Grade: 2
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Eisenhower Museum, Abilene (Kansas, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P38847 of the museum of President Eisenhower’s life. Starting to age, but still, Grade: 1
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Sellors Memorial Museum, Ainsworth (Nebraska, USA)
Unused “local” card S-73722. Aging. Grade: 2
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Berlin, Old Museum, Pleasure Garden with Statue of Frederick William III
An old, aged card, with stamp, and–according to the postmark–mailed on 23.8.13.9-10. Classic vintage German postcard. Grade: 2
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Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels (Maryland)
Five or six proper nouns appear in the short caption of this unused, aged, stained card. What you see are the Hooper Strait Lighthouse and the Point Lookout Bell Tower, which had been moved from Chesapeake Bay. Grade: 3
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Tokugawa Art Museum, Set of Armour (Gusoku) (Nagoya, Japan)
Unused contemporary card of this 17th-century armour. Grade: 1
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Tokugawa Art Museum, Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu (Nagoya, Japan)
Unused contemporary card of this 17th-century portrait. Grade: 1
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National Museum of Korea, Lotus Flower
Unused 4-7/8″ x 6-7/8″ card, bilingually captioned in Korean and English, of this 19th-century Sin Myeong-yeon (Lotus Flower) art. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Comic World (set)
This book of 21 cards was published by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in 2000, and contains full-colour covers of iconic local and international comic books. All are captioned in Chinese and English, and the size of the set is 4-1/8″ x 6″ x 3/8″. Unused, and a wonderful little glimpse into what molded today’s Movers and Shakers. Grade: 1