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“Benelux”
Mailed in 2013 with three different stamps and Priority label. Postmark’s there too. Grade: 1
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The 20th Century Limited (USA)
Unused card with pre-printed 20-cent matching postage from a 1998 USPS series. Slight creasing above the stamp, but that would probably disappear after being weighted down for awhile. Grade: 2
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Paranagua – PR – Carvalho Viaduct, Curitiba-Paranagua Railway (Brazil)
In 1979, someone made a short notation on the back of this otherwise unused and highly aged card. Grade: 3
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São Lourenço – MG – multiple views (Brazil)
Unused card clearly focusing on the Maria Fumaça train, as the Portuguese-only caption will advise you. Grade: 1
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Minas Gerais, Trem Maria Fumaça (Brazil)
Unused card with mild foxing on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Taiwan’s Formosa (set of 12)
Set of 12 unused cards in a cardboard cover that spells Formosa as Farmosa. Our scan shows part of the cover and two of the 12 cards as examples. The set includes scenes from around the country: Taitung’s Lillies Hill and Taimali Coast; Kenting’s Eluanbi Lighthouse; Pinghsi flying lanterns and Houtong Cat Train bridge; Chiufen’s taro rice balls and Jiufen Shuqi Road; the Queen’s Head in Yehliu; Provintia; and others. High quality. Grade: 1
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Hsinchu, Neiwan Station (Taiwan)
Unused Fun Taiwan card P072-128, with a QR code that you can scan. Speaking of scans, you’ll see a vertical line going through the upper half of the card. It shouldn’t be there, but it is inside the original print and not an external scratch on this particular card. Grade: 1
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Nantou County, Jiji Train Station (Taiwan)
Unused Fun Taiwan card P072-173, with a QR code that you can scan. Grade: 1
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New Taipei City, Pingxi (Taiwan)
Unused Fun Taiwan card P072-113. Grade: 1
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New Taipei City, Shihfen (Taiwan)
Unused Fun Taiwan card P072-181. Is this a special occasion, or do the cameras come out like this every time a train goes by? Grade: 1
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New Taipei City, Shihfen Station (Taiwan)
Unused Fun Taiwan card P072-132. Grade: 1
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Hualien County, Yuli Township, Kecheng railroad bridge (Taiwan)
Unused Fun Taiwan card P072-199. Grade: 1
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Taiwan (set of 12) – Nantou, Jiji Train Station
A genuinely complete, unused set of 12 island-shaped cards representing a variety of views around the country. A separate sheet generously shows what those views are–if your eyes are good, you can make them out, and figure out why we put them into the categories we did. In the original cellowrap. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – High-speed comfort
Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.) Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we have received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To continue the series, this card shows that “Passengers will travel in comfort on the Airport Express”. Grade: 1
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Zion National Park, Great White Throne (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Minor staining on the back as well. Grade: 2
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Bryce Canyon National Park, The Great Cathedral (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, The Pope (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. And upside down. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, From Sunset Pt. (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, faded, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. And upside down. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Queen Victoria (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, faded, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Kaohsiung, Formosa Boulevard MRT, Dome of Light 456 (Taiwan)
Unused card Tw456 in original cellowrap. Grade: 1
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Kaohsiung, Formosa Boulevard MRT, Dome of Light 197 (Taiwan)
Unused card Tw197 in original cellowrap. Grade: 1
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Castile, Letchworth State Park, Upper Falls and railroad trestle (New York)
Something about this picture is less than flattering, but the card itself is fine: unused Dexter Press 43068-B. Grade: 1
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Royal Gorge, Grand Canyon of the Arkansas (Colorado, USA)
First, let’s get this observation out of the way: the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas is in Colorado, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado is in Arizona. Maybe they could start over? Now, about the postcard: unmailed E.C. Kropp 32571, with a pencilled notation about the bridge in the message area. “The D. & R.G.W. Railroad and the Arkansas River run side by side…” Grade: 4
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Orlando, Walt Disney World, Railroad Station (Florida)
Unused but aging, and with an inked X on the lower right reverse. Left edge is perforated, so this came from a set or a book. Disney (Crocker) card HSC-609-F (PC709). Grade: 3
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Hannibal, Lover’s Leap (Missouri, USA)
Lots of proper nouns in the caption of this unused “local” postcard, including the CB&Q RR yards, and unnamed highway and railroad bridges. A date is inked into the postage area. Grade: 3
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Anaheim, Greetings from Disneyland (California)
Iconic, unused, official, slightly aging Disneyland postcard A-2 likely from the 1960s. Main Street, U.S.A.! Grade: 1
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Minsk, Vilenski Railway station, 1927 (Belarus)
The artwork may be from 1927 but the card is contemporary, mailed in 2014 with “M” stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Round-the-Island High Speed Railway Completed in Hainan (PR China)
In 2015, China Post issued several cards, almost but not quite a set, showing various anniversaries or notable dates or events. Each card has preprinted postage on the front, and nothing at all on the reverse. This one has reference number JP211. and also a serial #0485689. Unused. Grade: 1
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Taiwan is Fun – Train
Fenchihu is one of Taiwan’s “Old Towns”, in the mountains and on the Alishan railroad line. The card makes it look more appealing than it maybe actually is. Unused. Grade: 1
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Welcome to Pyongyang (set of 10) (DPR Korea)
Ten linked (accordion-style, unused) cards for which our scan shows you the cover (on the right) and three of the cards. As these are thoughtfully captioned in both Korean and English, you have a decent representation of the city as it was at that time. Grade: 1
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Steam engine (DPR Korea)
The Korean caption translates as “steam car agencies” but we can see what it is. Unused, purely domestic postcard. Grade: 1
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Tokyo, Shinjuku Station
If you see this area now, you’d think you were on a different planet. Unused Kobundo Nakamura card, aged. Grade: 2
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Kowai Bridge, The TranzAlpine (New Zealand)
This larger (4-3/4″ x 8-1/4″) card was mailed in 2017, with two stamps and postmark. It survived the long trip in good condition. Grade: 1
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Beaulieu – La Petite Afrique (France)
Honestly we do not know whether there ever was a stamp on this old railroad postcard. It was mailed in 1916 and has what appears to be part of a German “chop” mark on the reverse. If you’re interested, we can scan and show you what we mean. Look hard, you’ll see the train on the front. Grade: 4
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Biarritz – Le Jardin Public et La Gare du Midi (France)
No stamp, and no sign there ever was one, despite multiple postmarks on the reverse. The card was mailed in 1912. Grade: 3
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Chemins de Fer P.L.M., l’Hiver a Nice (France)
Unused, contemporary card with older artwork. Grade: 1
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Paris – Gare de l’Est
Mailed to Italy in 1905, this card has three distinct postmarks (and the stamp) on the reverse, along with another numerical “chop” mark. Grade: 2
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Le Bar et le Plateau de la Sarree (Chemin de fer du Sud de la France)
Mailed in 1904, with stamp and three postmarks (sending and receiving stations). Grade: 2
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Walt Disney World, Contemporary Resort, Grand Canyon Concourse (Florida)
Unused, official, older card 01110250 with a monorail and a typically breathtaking caption. Grade: 1
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Shenzhen Image (set of 19) (PR China)
You could ask — as we initially did — why only 19 cards in the set, of course one must be missing. But not so. This is deliberate, because the set was issued in 2017 for the XIX International Botanical Congress. And what a set it is: unused, postage pre-printed 4″ x 7-1/2″ cards with impressive views of modern day Shenzhen’s various attractions. The scan for this entry 20307899A shows the sort of vinylized cover and one of the cards. Scans B and C show other cards for different categories, including Shenzhen North Station. Disclosure: we live right across the border from Shenzhen and didn’t know half of these places existed. Two sets are available. Grades: 1