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Montreal, Saint Joseph’s Oratory in 1908 (Canada)
Unused sepia card in fine condition. It’s ironic, though: we know this is a very old postcard, and when the caption says “The Shrine as it appeared in 1908” we’re not certain if they really meant “a long time ago” or “yesterday”. No matter! Grade: 1

Code: 35000991
Price: $2.00
Montreal, Saint Joseph’s Oratory, The Main Altar of the Crypt (Canada)
Spooky old sepia card similar to the previous entry. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 35000992
Price: $2.00
Nikko, Yohmeimon (Japan)
Authentically Japanese, but with extra writing on both sides. There is a caption along the bottom front edge, if you can spot it (Grade: 5, $1). There’s one more unmailed card that looks so similar but lacks the caption and whose only extra writing is on the back (Grade: 4, $2).

Code: 35000993
Price: $1.00
Nagasaki, Sowa Shrine (Japan)
The front of this very old postcard is OK but the reverse is a mess of writing, missing stamp, and so forth. Grade: 4

Code: 35000994
Price: $1.00
Alger, Le Palais Consulaire et les deux Mosquees pris du quai (Algeria)
Very old, unused postcard in surprisingly good condition. Grade: 1

Code: 35000995
Price: $9.00
Grüße aus Schermbeck (Germany)
If you were looking for a typical German postcard outside of Berlin or Frankfurt, you could hardly do better than this multiple view, mailed in 2021 with stamp, postmark, and trilingual Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 35000996
Price: $3.00
Rome, S. Giorgio
We’ve tried to make out the caption at the bottom left of this unmailed old real-photo postcard: “ROMA – S. Giorgio in Velabro – Baldacchino”. So this guides us to tell you what you’re seeing: “A baldachin, or baldaquin, is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne. It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature”. The card has a written explanation of something in the message area. Grade: 4

Code: 35000997
Price: $3.00
Kirov, square near the Church of the Intercession Vyatka (Russia)
One needs to be able to interpret Russian postmarks to know when this card was mailed (05 01 14 18) but that postmark is crystal clear along with four stamps, an address label, and various other markings. Grade: 3

Code: 35000998
Price: $2.00
Foros, Crimea – The Church of the Resurrection of Christ
We are obliged to remain as apolitical as possible, even when confronted with a card like this: clearly captioned as a church in Crimea, yet labeled as “My Russia” and mailed from Saratov in 2021 with stamp and postmark. We shall say no more. Grade: 1

Code: 35000999
Price: $3.00
Wittlich, Lehrerseminar (Germany)
Often, cards have a backstory we wouldn’t ordinarily know. This is an authentically old, unmailed postcard that had been pasted in an album for many years. On the front, the original owner has noted” “Our barracks”. On the back, with large album remnants, a 1919 date. We can connect those dots. Grade: 5

Code: 35001000
Price: $2.00
Bali, Kintamani, Pura Ulun Danu (Indonesia)
The Serai is a hotel in Bali with surprisingly few online reviews, unless of course it’s not there any more. In any event, they added their name to a popular series of cards sold in Bali. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 35001001
Price: $2.00
Monastery of Daphni (Greece)
Unused, B&W real-photo card, unusually with no printing at all on the reverse. As for the monastery, we’re told: “The Daphni Monastery was founded towards the end of the sixth century A.D. on the site of the Sanctuary of Apollo which had been desecrated by the Goths in 395. The Sanctuary of Apollo was built in the Ionic style using the thinnest and smallest columns. One of the four Ionic columns of the ancient Sanctuary of Apollo remains at the site … The other columns were taken to London by Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin (best-known for taking the Parthenon Marbles). The columns, column bases, and column tops from the Sanctuary of Apollo are currently in the possession of the British Museum; they are not on display but can be seen on the museum’s website. The first monastery on the site was constructed in the style of a castle with a basilica in the middle…” Grade: 2

Code: 35001002
Price: $2.00
Milano, Duomo – Porta maggiore (Italy)
Milan Cathedral, officially the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Italian national monument dedicated to Santa Maria Nascente . It is the largest church in Italy (the largest in the Italian Republic, given that the basilica of San Pietro, larger, is in fact in the Vatican City; and third in the world by surface. We tell you this so you can appreciate more the importance of the gate. Unused card with a circular “chop” on the reverse suggesting that the postcard came directly from the Duomo itself. Grade: 1

Code: 35001003
Price: $3.00
Baalbek, La Colonnade de l’ancienne Mosquee (Lebanon/ex-Syria)
Interesting enough in its own right, but this highly aged, unused card has a small ad from the publisher on the back — when Beirut (Lebanon) was in Syria — selling complete sets of post cards comprising Business Life and costumes of Syria and Palestine. We wish we had these sets, but this and a couple of other entries will need to suffice. Grade: 3

Code: 35001004
Price: $4.00
Anvers, Le Calvaire a l’Eglise St. Paul (Belgium)
Undivided back old, unused postcard — aged appropriately. Grade: 1

Code: 35001005
Price: $3.00
Cetinje, Monastery (Montenegro)
The front of this unmailed old real-photo card is fine. The back is not: it had been pasted into an album, and has a large penciled notation. Grade: 4

Code: 35001006
Price: $3.00
Santa Prisca Church, Taxco (Mexico)
Unused card, rounded corners. Grade: 1

Code: 35001007
Price: $3.00
Souvenir of Aden, S.S. Oriana (Yemen)
Although this unused old postcard’s condition is poor, it has compensating factors. The four views, including Steamer Point, Old minaret CRATER, “Malla straight,” and the S.S. Oriana, are all identified in English on the reverse. Thumbtack holes in all four corners mean this treasured card was in someone’s view for a long time … and could now be yours. Grade: 4

Code: 35001008
Price: $6.00
Baalbek, Temple de Jupiter et Bacchus (Lebanon/ex-Syria)
See our comments for card 20431014. They apply here too, with this old card being significantly aged and stained on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 35001009
Price: $4.00
Baalbek, Details de Frises exterieures du Temple de Bacchus (Lebanon/ex-Syria)
Our card 20431014 gives you some details. This one, unused, is highly aged and has accumulated staining over many years. Grade: 4

Code: 35001010
Price: $4.00
Bruxelles, Eglise Sainte Gudule (Belgium)
It will depend on your language of choice, whether this church (and the Saint herself) is Gudule or Gudula or any of several other spellings. Gudule had a placid life after being born in the mid-600s, but her post-mortem time was less so. The sepia-toned card is unused, and clean, though the surface on the reverse is not entirely smooth. Grade: 2

Code: 35001011
Price: $3.00
Aalborg, Budolfi Kirke (Denmark)
Unmailed card unfortunately marred by significant ink transfer from another card, on the front. Grade: 5

Code: 35001012
Price: $0.50
Brussel, Zavelkerk (Belgium)
If you are wondering why we spell “Brussels” in different ways, it’s because we use one or another of what the cards themselves use. Here is an unused, old, real-photo card. Grade: 1

Code: 35001013
Price: $3.00
Canterbury Cathedral, The Sanctuary (England)
Unused, sepia, Walter Scott real-photo card, significantly aged. Grade: 3

Code: 35001014
Price: $2.00
London, St. Paul’s Cathedral
Not sure when it was made, but this unused card looks like it came right off the rack. Grade: 1

Code: 35001015
Price: $2.00
Avon, West Front of Bath Abbey (England)
Unused J. Arthur Dixon card PAV/22642. Grade: 1

Code: 35001016
Price: $3.00
London, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben
Unused and quite clean Photographic Greeting Card Co. C11804. Grade: 1

Code: 35001017
Price: $3.00
Gloucester Cathedral (England)
Unused, sepia-tinted, Photochrom real-photo card 6341 with bits of staining across the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 35001018
Price: $3.00
Environs d’Arles, Ruines du Chateau de Montmajour (France)
On this unused and very old postcard, a photo of what seems to correspond to this (courtesy of Wikipedia, abridged): “Montmajour Abbey was a fortified Benedictine monastery built between the 10th and 18th centuries on what was originally an island five kilometers north of Arles. The abbey is noted for its 11th–14th-century graves, carved in the rock, its subterranean crypt, and its massive unfinished church. It was an important pilgrimage site during the Middle Ages, and in the 18th century it was the site of a large Maurist monastery, now in ruin. The abbey and the landscape around it were frequently painted and drawn by Vincent van Gogh. In 1967, production for the film The Lion in Winter featured the abbey, Katharine Hepburn’s dressing room was infamously accommodated in the basement. It has been listed since 1840 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.” So even innocuous vintage postcards like this can have intriguing backstories. Grade: 1

Code: 35001019
Price: $4.00
Avignon, Palais des Papes (France)
The Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes) is one of the largest and most important medieval Gothic buildings in Europe. Once a fortress and palace, the papal residence was a seat of Western Christianity during the 14th century; six papal conclaves were held in the Palais, and since 1995, the Palais has been classified, along with the historic center of Avignon, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The unmailed card has some ink transfer most notable along the lower left edge, and is heavily aged but otherwise clean. Grade: 3

Code: 35001020
Price: $1.00
Azay-le-Rideau, Entrance to the Church (France)
Unused, old, aging, clean. Grade: 1

Code: 35001021
Price: $3.00
Cheffes-sur Sarthe, La Chapelle (France)
Not shown on this very old, unused card, but the chapel’s name now is chapelle Notre Dame de Saint Sulpice. The card’s reverse is aged and clean but with a sort of wavy, uneven surface. Grade: 2

Code: 35001022
Price: $3.00
Ypres, St. Martin’s Church (Belgium)
Unused sepia card captioned (on the reverse) “Service des Sites de la Guerre 1914-1918 … Vende au profit des Oeuvres des Invalides et Orphelins de la Guerre”. We believe your French is good enough to know what that means, and who the cards were for. Two opposing perforated edges mean this and similar cards from Ypres were originally part of a linked set. Grade: 1

Code: 35001023
Price: $3.00
Ypres, St. Martin’s Church, South Portal (Belgium)
See card 35001023 for a fuller background. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 35001024
Price: $3.00
Kloster Lichtenthal, Claufurgarten und Einfiedelkapelle (Germany)
Near Baden-Baden, this abbey has a very long but limited (sort of) history, as demonstrated in this Wikipedia excerpt: “The Prince’s Chapel was built in 1288, and until 1372 was the burial place of the Margraves of Baden. Here is also the tomb of the foundress, Margravine Irmengard. Besides the tombs, the high altar and several side altars, this chapel also contains the statue of the ‘Madonna of the Keys’, so called because in times of danger the abbey keys are entrusted to her. (The abbey has until now survived every danger unscathed, as is related in a Baden-Baden drinking song).” Some of us have an expression for this: damned by faint praise. Unused B&W card. Grade: 1

Code: 35001025
Price: $2.00
Lichtenthal, Klosterhof (Germany)
Unused sepia postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 35001026
Price: $2.00
Firenze, St. Maria Novella Basilica (Italy)
Mailed in 1975, with stamp, postmarks, and bilingual Via Aerea label. A bit of postal ink on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 35001027
Price: $2.00
Milano, Basilica S. Ambrogio (Italy)
Unused sepia card, well-aged. Grade: 1

Code: 35001028
Price: $2.00
Orvieto, Duomo (Italy)
Unused old real-photo card showing “Interno e Battistero” (we know!) of Il Duomo. Very minor age-related staining. Grade: 2

Code: 35001029
Price: $3.00
Paestum, Nettuno Temple (Italy)
When we first saw this card, we assumed it was Greek. It sure looked Greek to us. The first clue we might be wrong was noticing it was mailed from Italy (three stamps, three 1964 postmarks). The second clue was that the card was made in Italy. The clincher was to Google “Paestum” and see this: “Paestum was a major Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia. The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order, dating from about 550 to 450 BC.” So we weren’t wrong — but Paestum is now in Salerno. Oh those shifting borders and conquests. Grade: 1

Code: 35001030
Price: $5.00

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