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Old train station in Taiwan
Unused contemporary card. Grade: 1
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Railway station, Omsk (Russia)
Russian-style 4-1/4″ x 7-7/8″ card mailed from Omsk in 2012 with four stamps, and postmark. Just some postal bumping around the edges. Grade: 2
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (set) (PR China)
What you see in this photo is the front cover of a thin but large (8-1/4″ x 11-1/4″) folio. Open it up to reveal, on the inside left, a small unused postcard from the Guang Zhou Postal Bureau (China Post) under a plastic cover; and, on the inside right, a sheet of eight 80-fen stamps each with se-tenant perforated stub of a different cartoon character. You can see the card as 34800177B. Leave it to China to come up with something like this. Grade: 1
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Perth Transport (Australia) (Maximum Card)
Classic Maximum Card, nicely postmarked on the front. Australia Post’s “Postage Pre-paid” imprint on the reverse, along with another postmark indicating the 2012 date of mailing. A very nice card, especially for rail or metro postcard fans. Grade: 1
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Welcome to Galesburg, Railroad Days (Illinois, USA)
“Local” card mailed in 2012 with three different stamps but no legible postmark. Grade: 3
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Tokyo Station, Marunouchi Bldg.
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and a tiny glittery sticker of a heart on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Moscow, Arbatskaya Metro station
Captioned in eight languages that might mislead you into thinking the photograph was taken in 1935, but clearly that’s not true: the station must have been built in that year. The card, crisp and clean, was mailed from Moscow in 2012 with four stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Roma Metro (Italy)
This is either the best or the worst example of an international postcard: a Chinese internet card, of Rome’s Metro system, mailed from the USA (with four stamps, partial postmark) to Hong Kong. Grade: 3
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Taiwan high-speed rail
Bilingually captioned in Chinese and English, showing the high-speed rail link between Taipei and Kaohsiung. The card was mailed in 2012 with two different stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Dutch double-decker train
We sometimes observe in wonder that certain postcards survive being mailed at all, much less in good condition. This is one of those. It measures 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″, has three different stamps and blue Priority label, and only the most minor postal bumping. Grade: 2
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Vienna, Metro map (Austria)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and bilingual Priority label and most of the postmark. Grade: 2
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Train art
Not necessarily made in Japan (possibly France?) but mailed from there in 2012 with two different stamps, postmark, and trilingual blue Air Mail label. Grade: 1
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Taiwan Rail
Card captioned primarily in Chinese, mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and airmail and one other sticker. Grade: 3
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Paris Metro
It’s the Paris Metro but the card was mailed from Germany in 2012 with two different stamps and trilingual Priority label. Grade: 3, only because it was mailed from a different country.
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Porto…Gaia — Metro (Portugal)
The printed caption only reveals the name of Gaia, Porto’s suburb; but the writer of this card, mailed in 2012 with Paralympics stamp and postmark, kindly explained the scene in detail. Grade: 1. We also have another copy, where the name Porto on the front is in white instead of red; also mailed in 2012, but with a different stamp. Also Grade: 1
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Logging in Oregon
Two unused Plastichrome cards P6230B (K-11) of one log of 14,000 board feet passing between two railroad flatcars. Grades: 1
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Pacific Northwest Toothpicks (USA)
Unused, aging Plastichrome card P4613 with tiny pencil marks on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Soo Line Depot, Osceola (Wisconsin)
The Depot from 1916; the postcard from 2012, with two stamps, mostly readable postmark, and address label taped on. Grade: 4
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Hana-Ha train (Russia)
This is a Russian internet card, not postally used and not captioned. The writer of a message that fills the reverse has given this name of “Hana-Ha train” and we’ve not checked further. Grade: 4
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Train in winter (Germany)
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps and Priority label. Grade: 2
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Воздухоплаватель (Aeronaut) (Russia)
This pleasant card was made in, and mailed from, Russia in 2012 with stamp and large Ekaterinburg postmark. Grade: 1
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Old Taiwanese train art
No doubt the accurate title for this card is something else, but the caption is all in Chinese … mailed in 2012 with one coloured meter label and one real stamp, and partial postmark. Grade: 2
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Changhua, Roundhouse (Taiwan)
An unused card cut into the shape of the Island of Taiwan and still in the original cellowrap. Grade: 1
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Vallee de la Sarre (France)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and full postmark. Barcoding and minor abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Hong Kong Railway Museum (set)
Beautiful set of ten unused cards in cover, as issued by the museum in remote Tai Po Market. The scan shows you one side of the cover, and one of the cards, which collectively show a range of trains, equipment, and museum facilities and explain everything in English and Chinese. Three sets are available. Grades: 1
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Greetings from Kuala Lumpur – Light Railway Transit System (Malaysia)
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Czestochowa (Poland)
Not postally used, but with a message written on the back. Grade: 4
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Moscow, Metro Station
This 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ card was mailed from Netherlands (not Russia) in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and various other stickers and labels on the reverse. Grade: 4
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KL Monorail (Malaysia)
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card showing The Pavilion shopping mall, three views of Chinatown (Jalan Petaling area), and the KL Monorail. Grade: 1
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The Congressional (USA)
Unused card with pre-printed 20-cent matching postage from a 1998 USPS series. Grade: 1
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The Daylight (USA)
Unused card with pre-printed 20-cent matching postage from a 1998 USPS series. Grade: 1
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Little River excursion train in 1912 (Tennessee, USA)
Please note: this is not a 1912 postcard, but a reproduction of an old photo on a contemporary card mailed in 2012 with two stamps and partly readable postmark. Grade: 1
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CD Cargo Locomotive (Czech Republic)
Very nice, clean contemporary card, mailed in 2012 with stamp, full postmark, and blue Prioritaire label. Long captions in fine print–but only in Czech. Grade: 1
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Frankfurt-Konigsteiner Eisenbahn (FKE) diesel-electric rail car (Germany)
The long caption on the reverse, in mixed German and English, gives several technical details–and this photo dates from 1989. The card however was mailed in 2012 with two different stamps, faint postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 1
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Rapid Transit Systems of Moscow
Internet card (Postal Shop) mailed in 2012 with four of the same stamp, and postmark. Grade: 1
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Voksal – Railway Station
Another card, 3-5/8″ x 8-1/4″, whose exact identification eludes us, even to guessing if we have the right country. The sender mailed this from Minsk, Belarus, in 2012 and described it as “1985 postcard depicts the old railway station.” There’s no caption, but there are four different stamps and a full Minsk postmark that missed them all. Lots of postal creasing. Grade: 4
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der Hauptbahnhof, Hamburg (Germany)
Mailed in 2012, with two stamps and full postmark, along with some orange postal barcoding. Grade: 2
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The Loop, Tehachapi Pass, S.P.R.R., California
Two of these unused Pacific Novelty Co. cards 7217 are available, identical conditions and issued in conjunction with Southern Pacific Rail Road Co. Grades: 1
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Alger, La Gare – Les Quais et les Boulevards (Algeria)
If you collect railroad postcards or railway station postcards or anything in that arena, this will be just about all you need from Algeria. Unused “Collection Ideale P.S.” card 35, aged but so pretty and atmospheric. Can you feel yourself there? Grade: 2