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Railroad Museum, Parlor in Casey Jones Home (Jackson, Tennessee, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P29090. Grade: 2
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Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, The Roumanian Royal Throne (Washington, USA)
An earlier entry explains the incongrous pairing of these two. Unused real-photo card of the A.B. Spreckels Collection in the Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts. Grade: 2
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State L.N. Tolstoy’s Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum (Russia)
One is expected to know where this is, and the clue is not in the caption but in the separate line about where and when the card was produced: Moscow, 1988. (That’s just a clue.) But the card was mailed in 2013 from Belarus, with a Belarusian “M” stamp and full Minsk postmark. Grade: 3
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Museum of Military Glory, Gomel (Belarus)
The full caption reads: “Museum of military glory, branch of the regional museum of local lore. Gun of XVIII century”. The card was made in 2006 and mailed in 2013 with a colourful “M” stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Henry Ford Museum and 1894 Daimler, Dearborn (Michigan, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago 2C-H31. The scene is at the Henry Ford Museum, and the vehicle itself from Germany. As for the card, very heavily aged and with album marks on the reverse in particular. Grade: 3
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Stephen Foster Memorial, Museum, White Springs (Florida)
Unused Curteich-Chicago “C.T. Art-Colortone” card 1C-H302, explaining plans then underway to build a 200-foot-tall carillon tower housing tubular bells to “play Stephen Foster melodies at any desired hour of the day or night,” which we are certain would make the neighbours jump with joy. Grade: 1
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Sandwich Glass Museum and Historical Society (Massachusetts, USA)
Rare Pieces, on this unused Dexter Press card 95882-B. Aging. Grade: 2
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Haida Pole Fragments, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Unused card from the University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver. Grade: 1
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Northwest Coast Totem Poles (Canada)
Unused card from the University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver. The poles are carved from red cedar. Grade: 1
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San Jose, Egyptian Rock Tomb, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (California)
Unused Mike Roberts card SC2596. Aging. Grade: 1
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Fall River Museum and Store, early June view (Colorado, USA)
It must be fun to try to navigate around this Museum in January. Oops … it was closed then. Unused Curteichcolor card 6C-K1510 (213). Grade: 1
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Mystic Seaport, a Living Maritime Museum (Connecticut, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P63641, “Mystic Seaport Stores, Inc. Official Postcard,” aging significantly. Grade: 2
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New Museum of Natural History (Washington, DC)
Sometime soon after 1904, someone visited this new museum and filled the entire back of the postcard with impressions. So, not postally used but with much historic atmosphere. Grade: 4
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Miami, Vizcaya, Banquet Hall (Florida, USA)
Unused, faded Koppel Color Card 88634. Grade: 2
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Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, Waller’s Gazelle
Unused old card from the Museum. We just feel like telling you, via Wikipedia, that the gerenuk, Litocranius walleri, also known as the Waller’s gazelle, is a long-necked species of antelope found in dry thorn shrubland and desert in the Horn of Africa and the African Great Lakes region. So there. Grade: 2
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Police Museum (set of 5) (Hong Kong)
Our scan shows four of the five cards in this unused set. The fifth is called “Heritage Trail”, is in a similar style, and shows variously related police items. The set comes directly from this out-of-the-way museum stuck on a hill near Victoria Peak. Grade: 1
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Greenland Fishery (T. Baston)
Unused card 53477 (MA 1995) from the Hart Nautical Museum at M.I.T. in Massachusetts (USA). Aging, and with a noticeable smudge on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Shelburne, Webb Gallery of American Art (Vermont, USA)
Unused Koppel Color Card 72019. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Museums Collection, WU Guanzhong (set of 7)
To be precise, this is Hongkong Post’s “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 51” and is a set of seven unused cards issued on 17 June 2014; the scan only shows one. We now have five sets available, and all are Grade: 1. One set has no postmarks ($14). Two sets have a first-day “G.P.O.” postmark ($16), and two sets have a special pictorial “Hong Kong Museums Collection” postmark ($18).
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Jakarta 95 Day (set of two) (Maximum Cards) (Indonesia)
Two unused Maximum Cards in this set (and we have two sets). One card shows Jakarta’s History Museum at Fatahilah Square, and the other the drawbridge at Kota Intan, also in Jakarta. Grades: 1
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Baravaya, Museum of Aviation Technique, Mi-26T (Belarus)
Mailed in 2013, showing another exhibit from this large museum. “M” stamp and bilingual Prioritaire label, with postmark. Grade: 1
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Party Founding (set of three) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
A set of three unused maximum cards from 1995. Captions in Korean and English, and we’ll give the English to you: The Monument to Party Founding; The sculptural group of three persons of the Tower of Juche Idea; and The Party Founding Museum. Grade: 1
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Victoria and Albert Museum, Gaberdine dress and jacket
Unused. Grade: 1
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Big Brutus (Kansas, USA)
The caption on this unused card is extensive, focusing on Pittsburg and Midway Coal Mining Company and Big Brutus’s subsequent conversion into a museum. Grade: 1
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Dorothy’s House, Liberal (Kansas, USA)
In the unlikely event you’ve not heard of “Wizard of Oz”, this card may not have much meaning for you. But if you have, here’s an unused card with a long caption, transporting you in its own way. Grade: 1
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Quincippi Island Antique Car Museum, 1935 Bentley – Sedanca (Illinois, USA)
The automobile is in the Quincippi Island Antique Car Museum, and the card was mailed in 1976 with 9-cent stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Leavenworth, 1913 C.W. Parker Carry-Us-All #118 (Kansas, USA)
This carousel is in Leavenworth’s C.W. Parker Carousel Museum, and we’re sorry we missed it. Grade: 1
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Leavenworth, C.W. Parker Carousel Museum, multiple view (Kansas, USA)
Unused card from this museum whose star attraction must be this 1913 C.W. Parker Carry-Us-All #118. Grade: 1
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Leavenworth, First City of Kansas, multiple views (USA)
The seven views in this unused card include City Hall, the Leavenworth County Court House, Carroll House Museum, Hollywood Theater, Riverfront Community Center, Harvey House, and Centennial Bridge over the Missouri River. Conspicuously missing: a huge prison. Grade: 1
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St. Joseph (Missouri) museums
Palee House Museum, once headquarters for the Pony Express; and another Pony Express Museum. Two museums for a service that lasted 18 months. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Vyborg Castle Museum (Russia)
Mailed in 2014, this card has four stamps, three postmarks, and measures 4″ x 8-1/4″. Grade: 1
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Griboedov Canal, the Church on the Spilled Blood (Russia)
Mailed in 2014 with three stamps and two postmarks. Despite the name, this is now a Museum of Mosaics. Grade: 1
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West Sumatra, Adityawarman Museum (Indonesia)
Unused 4-5/8″ x 6-1/2″ Keris card KR-143. Grade: 1
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Polatsk Library Museum (Belarus) (not a postcard)
On the front, this 5-1/2″ x 8″ card looks like a postcard but the problem is that it looks more or less the same on the back, fully pre-printed. One could mail it as a postcard, with a little effort, but it is what it is. Unused. Grade: 1
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Chicago, Museum of Science and History, World’s Busiest Airport Control Tower
The airport in question is Chicago’s Midway, and this Plastichrome card P30660 (unused) came out at about the same time O’Hare opened, or shortly after. The control tower is a replica, of course. Grade: 2
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The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (England)
Unused, old, real-photo card with a message pencilled on the back. Grade: 3
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Greenville Railroad Park and Museum, cabooses (Pennsylvania)
Unused 1996 Mary Jayne card J17834. One caboose is Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad’s #0205, and the other is Union Pacific’s #25437. Grade: 1
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Greenville Railroad Park and Museum, Steam Switch Locomotive (Pennsylvania)
Unused 1996 Mary Jayne card J17835. A long and detailed caption gives you many details about this “World’s Largest Steam Switch Locomotive”. Grade: 1
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Kentucky Railway Museum
A lot of information about the locomotive in this unused Mary Jayne card MJ889. Oddly, it doesn’t tell exactly where the museum is. We’re assuming Kentucky. Grade: 1
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Bellevue, Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum (Ohio, USA)
Unused 1996 Mary Jayne card J17918 showing Nickel Plate Road’s No. 900, an EMD GP-30 donated by Norfolk Southern (all this is from the caption). Grade: 1