Unused card.  The original price sticker is still on the back.  The burka is from Daghestan, Rakhata.  Grade: 3 (because of the sticker)

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

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

Unused card.  Grade: 1

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

Unused John Hinde card BB1, beginning to show a bit of age.  Grade: 2

Vankilamuseo, the Prison Museum, on this card mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and blue Priority label.  Grade: 1

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

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

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

It’s still there, and Google brings up flattering entries.  This is an unused ad-type card, aging.  Grade: 2

Unused “Color King” card S-5410-3.  The museum is now in the Stephen Foster Memorial State Park.  Grade: 2

Unused Mike Roberts card C10539 (NCW98).  Grade: 2

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

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

Captioned in four languages, and mailed in 2013 with two stamps and postmark.  Grade: 2

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

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

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

Unused card with David Bowie’s cut-up lyrics for Blackout, from Heroes.  Grade: 1