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“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
Railroad Museum, Parlor in Casey Jones Home (Jackson, Tennessee, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P29090. Grade: 2

Code: 34400261
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 34400262
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 34400263
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400264
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400265
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 34400266
Price: $1.00
Sandwich Glass Museum and Historical Society (Massachusetts, USA)
Rare Pieces, on this unused Dexter Press card 95882-B. Aging. Grade: 2

Code: 34400267
Price: $1.00
Haida Pole Fragments, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Unused card from the University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver. Grade: 1

Code: 34400268
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 34400269
Price: $3.00
San Jose, Egyptian Rock Tomb, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (California)
Unused Mike Roberts card SC2596. Aging. Grade: 1

Code: 34400270
Price: $0.50
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

Code: 34400271
Price: $1.00
Mystic Seaport, a Living Maritime Museum (Connecticut, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P63641, “Mystic Seaport Stores, Inc. Official Postcard,” aging significantly. Grade: 2

Code: 34400272
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 34400273
Price: $2.00
Miami, Vizcaya, Banquet Hall (Florida, USA)
Unused, faded Koppel Color Card 88634. Grade: 2

Code: 34400274
Price: $0.50
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

Code: 34400275
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 34400276
Price: $14.00
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

Code: 34400277
Price: $0.50
Shelburne, Webb Gallery of American Art (Vermont, USA)
Unused Koppel Color Card 72019. Grade: 1

Code: 34400278
Price: $0.50
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).

Code: 34400279
Price: $14.00
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

Code: 34400280
Price: $11.00
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

Code: 34400281
Price: $4.00
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

Code: 34400282
Price: $16.50
Victoria and Albert Museum, Gaberdine dress and jacket
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 34400283
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 34400285
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400286
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400287
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 34400288
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400289
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400290
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400291
Price: $1.00
Vyborg Castle Museum (Russia)
Mailed in 2014, this card has four stamps, three postmarks, and measures 4″ x 8-1/4″. Grade: 1

Code: 34400292
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400293
Price: $2.00
West Sumatra, Adityawarman Museum (Indonesia)
Unused 4-5/8″ x 6-1/2″ Keris card KR-143. Grade: 1

Code: 34400294
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400295
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 34400296
Price: $1.00
The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (England)
Unused, old, real-photo card with a message pencilled on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 34400297
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 34400299
Price: $2.00

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