Prisons – Page 2 – Global Postcard Sales

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San Francisco, Alcatraz, multiple views
Nice, clean contemporary card. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 34700042
Price: $1.00
Alcatraz, afternoon fog (California, USA)
Unused Smith Novelty card E-456. Grade: 1

Code: 34700043
Price: $1.00
California State Prison at Folsom
A facility since 1880 but immortalized by Johnny Cash. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 34700045
Price: $3.00
Bautzen II (Germany)
The human history for this region dates back to the Stone Age. Wikipedia provides a rich history for Bautzen II, a secret “prison for prisoners of conscience,” and a memorial since 1993. Unused card, captioned in detail in German. Grade: 1

Code: 34700046
Price: $3.00
Papa (Netherlands)
This is a Boomerang ad card, proving yet again that ad cards are often as distinctive and unusual as “ordinary” ones. As it says in the capton, “Boomerang supports Vaderdag” (Father’s Day). Mailed from Netherlands in 2013, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34700047
Price: $3.00
San Francisco, Historic Cable Car No. 23 (Alcatraz)
From a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway. This one shows the cable car on the Powell & Hyde Line, with Alcatraz in the background. Grade: 1

Code: 34700048
Price: $3.00
Qingdao, European Jail (PR China)
Government-issued card, printed and mailed in 2013. It has one pre-printed stamp and one beautiful, large real one, along with full postmark. Faint red airmail chop also. (Forgive us for a brief diversion here, but we need to do this sometimes for the search engines: this is one of our jail postcards, or prison postcards.) Grade: 1

Code: 34700049
Price: $3.00
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, entrance of the old Penitentiary (French Guiana)
Unused G. Delabergerie card 87. Two are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34700050
Price: $9.00
Vue aerienne des Iles du Salut (French Guiana)
All three of The Salvation islands, including Devil’s Island, on this G. Delabergerie card 141 mailed from Kourou in 1971 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 34700051
Price: $16.00
Sioux Falls, South Dakota State Penitentiary
Unused “local” card 13358N, a bit battered, and with lots of pencil scribbling on the reverse but this could fairly easily be erased. Grade: 4

Code: 34700052
Price: $4.00
Kilmainham Gaol (Ireland)
Mailed in 2014, with stamp and bilingual Aerphost label. Partial postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34700053
Price: $3.00
Indiana State Prison, Main Entrance, Michigan City (USA)
Unused E.C. Kropp card 7619 N. Grade: 1

Code: 34700054
Price: $6.00
I Spent Time in Leavenworth (Kansas, USA)
Construction of this most imposing U.S. Penitentiary began in 1895. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 34700055
Price: $3.00
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County Court House and Jail (USA)
Mailed in 1909, with stamp and clear postmark and message. Grade: 2

Code: 34700056
Price: $9.00
Auschwitz I – A warning notice inside the camp (Poland)
Beginning a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. Grade: 1

Code: 34700057
Price: $3.00
Auschwitz I – Eyeglasses found at the site (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. Grade: 1

Code: 34700059
Price: $3.00
Auschwitz I – Gas chamber and crematorium building (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. Grade: 1

Code: 34700060
Price: $8.00
Auschwitz I – Inscription over the main camp gate (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. For this card, two are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34700061
Price: $3.00
Auschwitz I – Interior of the gas chamber (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. For this card, two are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34700062
Price: $8.00
Auschwitz I – The main camp gate with the inscription (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. Grade: 1

Code: 34700063
Price: $8.00
Auschwitz II – Birkenau: Interior of a brick barracks (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. For this card, two are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34700064
Price: $3.00
Auschwitz II – Birkenau: Interior of a wooden barracks (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. Grade: 1

Code: 34700065
Price: $8.00
Auschwitz II – Birkenau: Items belonging to Jews (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. Grade: 1

Code: 34700066
Price: $3.00
Auschwitz II – Birkenau: Main SS guardhouse (fog) (Poland)
Continuing a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. For this card, two are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34700068
Price: $3.00
Auschwitz II – Birkenau: Prisoner barracks in the “men’s quarantine” sector (Poland)
Concluding a series of unused cards from Państwowe Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All are captioned in Polish and English. For this card, three are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34700069
Price: $3.00
Mirov, Olomoucký kraj (Olomouc Region), State Prison (Czech Republic)
Irregular shape, mailed in 2014 with stamp, full postmark, and Prioritaire label. Grade: 1

Code: 34700070
Price: $2.00
La liberazione di S. Pietro dal carcere (Raffaello Sanzio – Stanze) (Vatican)
Unused vintage sepia postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 34700071
Price: $3.00
Shackelford County’s first jail (Texas)
Unused Curteichcolor card 8C-K2647 telling us the jail was built in 1867 at Fort Griffin but then moved to Albany City Park in 1954. Hope they removed all the inmates first. Grade: 1

Code: 34700072
Price: $1.00
Port Arthur (Tasmania), M.V. Marana and the Penitentiary (Australia)
The vessel was launched in 2002 and it seems the highlight of any cruise on it is seeing this penitentiary. The card is unused. Grade: 1

Code: 34700073
Price: $3.00
San Francisco, Alcatraz Island (California)
Unused H.S. Crocker card 5:SF-17-1/2. Grade: 2

Code: 34700074
Price: $1.00
Williamsburg, The Public Gaol (Virginia, USA)
Unused Tichnor linen card 67940, appropriately aged. Grade: 1

Code: 34700075
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, Gateway of Bloody Tower
Unused Gale & Polden card 1848, though it has the date “Jan 9, 1924” written on the back and is stained around the edges. The caption could have said so many things, but instead writes “Above the Gateway of the Bloody Tower is seen the portcullis, the only one in England now in working order; probably it is the only working portcullis in the world.” Well, we have Google, and Wikipedia, which tells us: “In England, working portcullises survive at the Tower of London, Monk Bar in York, Amberley Castle, and Hever Castle.” Grade: 4

Code: 34700076
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, The Byward Tower
One online source says the Byward Tower is one of 21 that comprise the entire Tower of London complex. We’ve no reason yet to disagree. Unused old Harrison & Sons card 86. Grade: 1

Code: 34700077
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, In the Beauchamp Tower
This is Gale & Polden card 1857. We have two of them, from completely different print runs. The one we show in the scan is the worse of the two on the front (abrasions) but the back is clean and the text colour is dark brown, with no logo in the stamp area (Grade: 2, $2). The other has no abrasions on the front, but someone has written the date of Jan. 9, 1924 in the message area on the reverse. The manufacturer’s logo is in the stamp area and the print colour is a lighter brown (Grade: 3, $2).

Code: 34700078
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, View along the Outer Ward looking towards the Byward Tower
Unused Gale & Polden card 1850, with the date Jan. 9, 1924 written into the message area. Grade: 3

Code: 34700079
Price: $2.00
Port Arthur (Tasmania, Australia)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 34700080
Price: $4.00
Tower of London, Groups of 16th Century Armour
This is London Stereoscopic Company’s card, unnumbered as far as we can see. Not postally used, but with a long message from 1913 completely covering the message and address areas. We like the message, which would not likely be written in contemporary times: “…don’t come to London, the smooth and easy road to Hades doesn’t begin to be lined with the temptations that the shops of London hold out …” (There’s much more.) Grade (only because of the writing): 4

Code: 34700081
Price: $2.00
London. – The Tower of London from Top of Tower Bridge. – L.L.
Unused B&W card in superb condition for its age. Grade: 1

Code: 34700082
Price: $2.00
The Tower of London
Still looking for Tower of London postcards? Here’s a nice one, mailed in 1924 with stamp, postmark, and this in the message: “The Tower is a rather gloomy place …” Well, it was a prison, after all. Grade: 2

Code: 34700083
Price: $2.00
Firenze – Palazzo del Podesta (Bargello) (Italy)
In 1910, the person who bought this card wrote the date on the reverse. So, not postally used. Grade: 3

Code: 34700084
Price: $2.00

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