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Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin (Ireland)
Mailed in 2012 with a coloured postage meter label and bilingual Priority label. Address label also affixed. Grade: 4
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St. Anthony’s Church (Macau)
Unused card of one of Macau’s three oldest churches, a popular site for Portuguese weddings. UNESCO World Cultural Heritage location. Grade: 1
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St. Lawrence’s Church (Macau)
Unused card of a church first built in the 15th century. Chinese called it “Church of Favourable Weather”. UNESCO World Cultural Heritage location. Grade: 1
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St. Augustine’s Church (Macau)
Unused card of a church first established by Spanish Augustinians in 1591. UNESCO World Cultural Heritage location. Grade: 1
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Na Tcha Temple (Macau)
Unused card. The temple was built in 1888. World Cultural Heritage site. Grade: 1
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The Bishop’s Cathedral (Macau)
Unused card of this cathedral, built in 1622. It also houses relics of bishops and saints from 16th and 17th centuries. World Heritage location. Grade: 1
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Cologne, aerial view of Cathedral and Rhine (Gerrmany)
Mailed in 2013, with stamp, postmark, and orange postal barcoding. Pretty much a generic postcard of a cathedral–but it might be the one you’re looking for. Captioned in three languages. Grade: 1
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Bern, Old Town with Cathedral (Switzerland)
Brilliant dusk view of Bern (Berne) and its cathedral on this unused high-quality card. Grade: 1
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San Luis Rey Mission, Oceanside (California)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Berlin, Neue Synagoge
Mailed from the USA (not Berlin) in 2011, with stamp, postmark, and major USPS postal processing abrasions on the back. Grade: 5
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San Miguel de Allende, La Parroquia (Mexico)
Mailed in 1999 with three stamps and all or part of two large postmarks. Grade: 1
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The Pro-Cathedral, Dublin (Ireland)
Unused, vintage real-photo card. We had not heard the term “Pro-Cathedral” before, so we looked it up. A website, procathedral.ie, explains everything very well. Grade: 1
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Muckross Abbey, Killarney (Ireland)
Not postally used, but with a poignant message taking up the reverse. Grade: 4
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Minsk, Welcome to Belarus, Cathedral of the Holy Spirit
Mailed in 2013 with an M stamp and postmark. Nice, embossed card. Grade: 1
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Tucson, Mission San Xavier Del Bac (Arizona, USA)
The Mission, from 1692. The unused Petley card 2123, from somewhat later, but aging. Grade: 2
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Temples (Maximum Cards) (Thailand) (set)
Issued in April 1994 (Thai 2537), this set of four unused maximum cards is captioned only in Thai but the postmarks are partly in English. Two sets are available. Grades: 1
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Полацкі Сафійскі сабор (Polotsk Sofia) (Belarus)
A really big (4-1/2″ x 9″) card that survived being mailed in 2013, but with lots of bumps and bruises. Five stamps (four are the same), all or part of three postmarks, and a bilingual Prioritaire chop. Grade: 3
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Cuopu Temple (PR China)
We think we’ve got this right, that Cuopu Temple is remotely in Sichuan Province, though if it turns out to be in Tibet, or is a Tibetan temple in Sichuan, just let us know. The card was made in 2001 and mailed in 2013, with large stamp, partial postmark, and some postal bumping. Grade: 2
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Bangkok, Wat Suthat
Unused card with much information (in Thai) in the area where the stamp would go. Grade: 1
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Saint Pauls Episcopal Church, Stockbridge (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused but aging old Crown Color Views card 38256 (and 266-M). Grade: 3
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Bali, Besakih, the “Mother Temple”
Mailed in 2013 with three large red stamps and three equally large Jakarta postmarks. Grade: 2
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Kohunlich, Temple of the Masks (Mexico)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Lviv, Market Square and Latin Cathedral
Internet (photoFabrique) card mailed in 2013 with two stamps and Kiev postmark. Grade: 1
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Worcester Memorial Auditorium and Central Congressional Church (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused “Tichnor Quality Views” linen card 63322. Grade: 1
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New York City, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Statue of Atlas
Unused card. Grade: 1
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San Xavier Mission, Tucson (Arizona, USA)
Unused, heavily handled, aging card 8588. Grade: 3
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Bell Tower of the Mission San Diego de Alcala (California)
Mailed in 1968, with 5-cent stamp and postmark, this card has aged far beyond its years. Grade: 4
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San Antonio, Mission Conception (Texas, USA)
The Mission dates from 1713, the card from somewhat later. Unused, but significantly smudged on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Juarez, Old Church of Guadaloupe (Mexico)
Unused Fred Harvey card, dated 1908, likely for sale in the USA and not Mexico. Grade: 3
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Minsk, church (Belarus)
Apparently a contemporary card made to look very old (successfully), mailed in 2013 with two stamps and large postmark, and even larger rubber stamp of the name BELARUS that seems to have been applied by the post office. Grade: 2
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Cadiz, La Linea de la Concepcion (Spain)
This card might have been mailed in 1949 but the stamp(s) and most of the postmark(s) are long gone. Grade: 5
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Caracas, church at tomb of Bolivar (Venezuela)
This is a real-photo postcard, postally unused. And it’s very old. But the only way we know what it is, is because–long ago–someone wrote on the back to identify it. Grade: 4
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Vallauris. – Chapelle Notre-Dame des Graces (France)
Unused B&W card, very old, with a small streak of something along the lower right edge. Grade: 2
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Saint-Satur. – L’Abside de l’Eglise (France)
Unused old postcard. Grade: 1
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Fribourg, Cathedrale et Hotel de Ville (Switzerland)
Looking for a Fribourg postcard? In 1932, this one went out with a stamp and clear postmark. Grade: 2
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ROMA – Interno della Basilica di S. Pietro (Vatican City)
Assigning postcards into “Vatican” or “Italy” can be tricky. If you are really searching for these, you should check both locations. But as you’ve found this in the “Religious” category, no problem. This unused, vintage card has a divided back but warns the writer (in Italian and French) that some countries won’t accept cards with messages in that space. Grade: 2
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York, South Side, York Minster (England)
Unused Raphael Tuck & Sons “Real Photograph” from York Minster, Series A, showing the full-length view of the South Side of the Minster, photographed from the grounds of the Song School. Grade: 1
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Roma – Cupola di S. Pietro vista da Villa Gabrielli
Mailed in 1930 with stamp, and full, clear postmark and message. Grade: 1
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Dresden – Frauenkirche (Germany)
The picture dates from 1952; the card is much newer, mailed in 2013 from Russia (not Dresden) with two large stamps and partial postmark. Grade: 3
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Novomoskovsk, Troitskyj Temple (Ukraine)
The Temple is in Dnipropetrovs’k region. The card was mailed in 2013, with three different stamps and faint postmarks. Grade: 1