Museums – Page 6 – Global Postcard Sales

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Woodrow Wilson House, Kitchen (Washington, DC)
Unused card of the 1915-1924 kitchen in President Wilson’s house, which is a “museum property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation”. Grade: 1

Code: 34400221
Price: $1.00
The Textile Museum, Tent Panel, Mali Timbuktu (Washington, DC)
Unused card of Fulani fabric. Original price sticker is still on the back of the card, which would otherwise be basically perfect. Grade: 3

Code: 34400222
Price: $1.00
The Textile Museum, Timbuktu to Tibet (Washington, DC)
Unused card of a 2008-2009 exhibition. Original price sticker is still on the back of the card, which would otherwise be basically perfect. Grade: 3

Code: 34400223
Price: $2.00
Hindenburg and Titanic, Fire & Ice (Smithsonian, USA)
A multi-faceted card, from the National Postal Museum of Washington DC’s Smithsonian. A circular chop on the reverse attests that the card was posted from the Museum, and this is alongside three stamps, two postmarks, and a blue USPS bilingual airmail label–and barcoding on both sides. Enough? Grade: 3

Code: 34400224
Price: $5.00
Wien Belvedere (Austria)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 34400225
Price: $2.00
Belvedere, Vienna
High-quality unused card from the museum. Grade: 1

Code: 34400226
Price: $5.00
Prison/Museum (Russia)
Nice “domestic” postcard, and as you’ll note, we have not gone on to translate the extensive captioning to know exactly where this is. The card does say, but it’s all in Russian. Mailed in 2013 with Sochi Olympics stamp and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 34400227
Price: $3.00
Race the Train (S.T.A.R.) (Netherlands)
S.T.A.R. is a museum for steam trains, and there is an annual run next to a train. This nice “local” card was mailed in 2013 with two stamps, illegible postmark, and bilingual Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 34400228
Price: $5.00
Buffalo Bill Museum, Lookout Mountain (Colorado, USA)
Unused John Hinde card BB1, beginning to show a bit of age. Grade: 2

Code: 34400229
Price: $2.00
National Museum, Fireplace Watch (Moldova)
An item in Moldova’s National Museum, presumably in Chisinau. Card mailed in 2013 with two stamps, postmark, and address and other label affixed. Grade: 4

Code: 34400230
Price: $1.00
Suphan Buri, Dragon Descendant Museum (Thailand)
This card was issued by Thailand Post, with coloured, pre-printed postage; it was mailed with two more large stamps, two postmarks, and blue Airmail sticker affixed. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 34400231
Price: $4.00
Hameenlinna, Prison Museum (Finland)
Vankilamuseo, the Prison Museum, on this card mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and blue Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 34400232
Price: $3.00
Museum of Toys (set) – front (PR China)
Whether this unused set of 30 cards represents an actual “Museum of Toys” or an allegorical one, we don’t know. What captioning there is, is all in Chinese. This scan shows the front cardboard cover of the set; 34400233B shows the back cover and all the cards. If you can’t see clearly, they have placed little figurines–including everything from Totoro to Ronald McDonald–in odd settings. It’s an odd set, indeed. Grade: 1

Code: 34400233A
Price: $23.00
Museum of Toys (set) – reverse (PR China)
See 34400233A for description.

Code: 34400233B
Price: $23.00
Dare to Experiment (Green) (Macau)
Originally part of a set, we’re offering some individual cards because we don’t think we have the whole thing. Unused, representing Macao’s Museu das Comunicações, issued by Correios de Macau, and printed in the shape of a big stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 34400234
Price: $3.00
Dare to Experiment (Red) (Macau)
Originally part of a set, we’re offering some individual cards because we don’t think we have the whole thing. Unused, representing Macao’s Museu das Comunicações, issued by Correios de Macau, and printed in the shape of a big stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 34400235
Price: $3.00
Dare to Experiment (Brown) (Macau)
Originally part of a set, we’re offering some individual cards because we don’t think we have the whole thing. Unused, representing Macao’s Museu das Comunicações, issued by Correios de Macau, and printed in the shape of a big stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 34400236
Price: $3.00
Strasenburgh Planetarium, Rochester (New York)
Unused Dexter Press card 47905-C. Two of these are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34400238
Price: $1.00
R.C. Baker Memorial Museum, Coalinga (California)
It’s still there, and Google brings up flattering entries. This is an unused ad-type card, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 34400239
Price: $2.00
Stephen Foster Museum, White Springs (Florida)
Unused “Color King” card S-5410-3. The museum is now in the Stephen Foster Memorial State Park. Grade: 2

Code: 34400240
Price: $1.00
State museum-reserve “Tsaritsyno,” Kitchen House (Russia)
Not postally used, but with a message filling the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 34400241
Price: $1.00
Searsport, Penobscot Marine Museum (Maine)
Unused Albertype Handcolored postcard, whose printed caption on the front is matched in much bigger letters by a rubber-stamped one on the back. Grade: 2

Code: 34400242
Price: $2.00
Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, The Main Room (Washington, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C10539 (NCW98). Grade: 2

Code: 34400243
Price: $1.00
Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, Queen Marie of Roumania Gallery (Washington, USA)
We were idly curious why Queen Marie had an entire gallery dedicated to her at this (arguably) obscure location, so we went to Wikipedia. Describing the entire collection as “eclectic,” Wikipedia explains everything, including this: “During her 1926 visit for the museum’s dedication, Queen Marie of Romania gave Maryhill more than 100 objects. These included personal items, Romanian folk objects, Russian icons and diverse textiles. That same year, Queen Marie’s oldest daughter Elisabetha, the former Queen Consort of Greece, gave the museum a collection of small Tanagra figurines and a number of ancient Cypriot amphorae. A year earlier, the museum had received its very first donation—three silver filigree objects—from Queen Marie’s second daughter, Marie, Queen Consort of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.” So now you know WHAT, we just don’t know WHY. Unused card. Grade: 3

Code: 34400244
Price: $1.00
“The Way It Was” Museum, Virginia City (Nevada)
Unused card 0117 from “Virginia City Series”. Grade: 1

Code: 34400245
Price: $1.00
Doorn, Huize Doorn, Keizerlijk Verblijf (Netherlands)
For this we went to Wikipedia. Huis Doorn “is a small manor house … in the province of Utrecht … German Emperor Wilhelm II lived in exile in the house from 1920 until his death in 1941. The historic house is now a national museum.” Not postally used, but with a long notation on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 34400246
Price: $2.00
Tampere Art Museum, Moominvalley Collection (Finland)
Imagine, a whole collection of the popular Moomin characters. Here’s one card, at least: mailed in 2013, with stamp, Priority, and postmark. A bit of postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 34400247
Price: $2.00
Chernihiv, V. Tarnovskyi House, 1900 (Ukraine)
Captioned in four languages, and mailed in 2013 with two stamps and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 34400248
Price: $2.00
Grad Slovenska Bistrica (Slovenia)
Not a public library, but a museum memory-room of a Slovenian writer. Mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and minor postal abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 34400249
Price: $2.00
Helsinki, Seurasaari Island, Open-Air Museum (Maximum Card) (Finland)
Unused Maximum Card no. 12, issued on 4 June 1991. Some smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 34400250
Price: $6.00
David Bowie and Tokyo Pop bodysuit (Victoria & Albert Museum)
A short sequence of unused cards from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, this one of David Bowie’s Tokyo Pop bodysuit for the Aladdin Sane tour. Grade: 1

Code: 34400251
Price: $3.00
David Bowie, self-portrait (Victoria & Albert Museum)
A short sequence of unused cards from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, this one of David Bowie’s self-portrait for the album cover of Heroes. Grade: 1

Code: 34400252
Price: $3.00
David Bowie, The Kon-rads (Victoria & Albert Museum)
A short sequence of unused cards from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, this one of David Bowie in 1963. We’ve also put a bookmark into the scan, and if you buy any of this series of Bowie cards, we’ll give that to you as well. First-come, first-served. Grade: 1

Code: 34400253
Price: $3.00
David Bowie, Earthling album cover (Victoria & Albert Museum)
A short sequence of unused cards from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, this one of David Bowie for the album cover of Earthling. Grade: 1

Code: 34400254
Price: $3.00
Victoria and Albert Museum, Ziggy Stardust lyrics
Part of our series (see the “People” section of this website) on David Bowie, this unused card shows original lyrics for Ziggy Stardust from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972). Grade: 1

Code: 34400255
Price: $3.00
Victoria and Albert Museum, Blackout lyrics
Unused card with David Bowie’s cut-up lyrics for Blackout, from Heroes. Grade: 1

Code: 34400256
Price: $3.00
Victoria and Albert Museum, cloak
Unused card, part of the collection for a David Bowie exhibition, showing a cloak decorated with kanji characters for his Aladdin Sane tour (1973). Grade: 1

Code: 34400257
Price: $3.00
“All Aboard,” California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento
Unused Smith Novelty card S-038. Grade: 1

Code: 34400258
Price: $1.00
Bath, Roman Baths Museum (England)
We could never improve on the caption printed on this unused card’s reverse: “Romano Celtic Head of Medusa or Gorgon from Pediment of Temple of Sulis Minerva”. (Or, something like what we see in our mirror each morning.) Grade: 1

Code: 34400259
Price: $2.00
Nordica Homestead Museum, Brunnhilde costume (Maine, USA)
Unused card, aging. Lillian Nordica wore this costume, now on display at the Nordica Homestead Museum in Farmington, Maine. Grade: 2

Code: 34400260
Price: $0.50

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