Unused card showing Igreja Boa Viagem, Lago Parque Municipal, Lagoa da Pampulha (with Mineirinho/Mineirao, and Av. Afonso Pena.  Two small stains on the aging reverse.  Grade: 3

Unused, aging card with three focal points.  Grade: 2

Older, unused card with brown spots on two oposite corners of the reverse.  The four views include: (1) Igreja Matriz Nossa Senhora do Patrocinio; (2) Zezinho Magalhaes Stadium; (3) Presbyterian Church; and (4) Educational Foundation (the caption mixes English and Portuguese).  Grade: 3

Unused, somewhat aging card, bilingually captioned in Spanish and English in an impressively tiny font.  One view is this:  “Corpographic Allegories at the Inauguration of the National Sports in the Atahualpa Stadium,” and the other is “The beautiful Basilic of Quito”.  Grade: 1 

Heavily aged view of Bariloche, the church, on an unused, 4-1/8″ x 7-1/8″ vintage postcard.  Captions in Spanish and English.  Grade: 3

There’s much to recommend this 4″ x 7-1/8″ card, but it was not postally used and has writing taking up most of the reverse.  In the photo, see “Virgen de las Nieves”.  Grade: 4

Unused 4″ x 7″ Edicolor card 5.768, aging.  Grade: 3

Unmailed card, 4″ x 7-1/8″, with writing and tape on the back from 1985.  Grade: 4

Unused card, beginning to show its age.  Grade: 2

We really liked this description from the online recifeguide, so we repeat it here: “Official name: Church of Saint Savior of the World.  Built in 1535. It was turned into a Protestant temple during the Dutch period.
Located in the Alto da Sé, the highest place in Olinda. It was from where today is the backyard of this church that Duarte Coelho, enchanted with the beautiness of his viewing, would have said the phrase which gave name to the city: “Oh, linda situação para construir uma vila”.  Since 1676, this has been the cathedral of Olinda and Recife (hence the name, Sé, in Portuguese).”  TMI?  We said we tell the stories.  Unused card with a clear sticky strip (like a Post-It Note) along the bottom.  Grade: 3

All four churches are identified in the Spanish-language caption on the reverse.  Not postally mailed, but with a 1990 inked notation in the address area.  Grade: 4

Old Soviet-era card, captioned in Spanish, English, and Russian.  Unmailed but the reverse is full of message and address.  Grade: 4

Older, unused card with two shreds of tape on the right reverse edge.  Grade: 3

Just to clarify about this cathedral, we quote from Wikipedia: “The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation. It is the oldest cathedral in the Americas, begun in 1512 and completed in 1540. It is the Cathedral of the Archbishop of Santo Domingo who has the honorary title of Primate of the Americas because Santo Domingo was the first Catholic diocese established in the New World.”  The card is unused but with noticeable foxing on the back.  Grade: 3

Unused card.  Grade: 2

Unused Mike Roberts card FF-003c, slight foxing on the reverse.  The cathedral “was destroyed by fire during the attack by pirate Henry Morgan in 1671”.   Grade: 2

Unused, heavily aged card with a small notch out of the right front edge.  It all just makes the card look about as old as these ruins.  Grade: 3

Mailed in 2014 with Italian stamp and postmark, and address and one other label affixed.  Grade: 4

Mailed in 2014, stamp and postmark are there.  Extensive Chinese-language caption most likely explains everything, and there’s an English identification.  Grade: 1