Religious Buildings – Page 5 – Global Postcard Sales

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Temple of S. Vital, Ravenna (Italy)
Unused card with thumbtack hole and some extra writing on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 35000198
Price: $0.50
St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh (Scotland)
The card was mailed in 1977, has a stamp and postmark, but is in terrible condition. Grade: 5

Code: 35000199
Price: $0.50
Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge (Pennsylvania)
Two mailed cards are available. One has 6-cent stamp and full 1972 postmark (Grade: 3, $1). The other has a 10-cent stamp but is a total mess with a large phone number scrawled across the front (Grade: 5, .50).

Code: 35000201
Price: $1.00
Heinz Memorial Chapel, Univ. of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
Unused Dexter Press card 91096 (and 221-D71). Grade: 2

Code: 35000202
Price: $1.00
Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg (Virginia, USA)
Mailed in 1970 with 6-cent stamp, full postmark, and what looks like a splash of coffee stain on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 35000203
Price: $1.00
St. Andrew’s United Church, Moose Jaw (Canada)
Unused card with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 35000204
Price: $1.00
Christ Church, Curtis Memorial Organ (Philadelphia)
One is meant to know where this church is located, but one only knows by looking it up in Google. Well, the 1981 postmark also helps. Three stamps. Grade: 2

Code: 35000205
Price: $1.50
Religious Department Building, Brunei
S.W. Singapore card BR6577, mailed from Malaysia (not Brunei) in the early 1990s with a Melaka stamp. Some white correction fluid used in the message area. Grade: 4

Code: 35000206
Price: $3.50
Masjid Negara (National Mosque), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Two S.W. Singapore cards (KL 6606) are available, both mailed with a stamp and partial postmark. One is Grade: 3 ($1.50) and the other is Grade: 1 ($3.50).

Code: 35000207
Price: $3.50
Hollywood Hills United Methodist Church (Florida)
From one teen to another on this 3.5″ x 8.25″ card mailed in 1970 with a 5-cent stamp. The card is heavily aged and has a hole through it but here it is if you want it. Grade: 5

Code: 35000208
Price: $1.00
National Mosque, Kota Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia)
S.W. Singapore card KK7668 with Sabah stamp and orange postal bar code, but no postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 35000210
Price: $3.00
Mosque, Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia)
This is S.W. Singapore card KK7675, like a mirror image of their card KK7668, but this time it’s only called a mosque, not the “national mosque.” Whatever. Two of these are available. One was mailed with a Negeri Sembilan stamp and illegible postmark in 1990 (Grade: 2, $3) and the other has a red Express Mail sticker affixed, three stamps, mostly legible Sabah postmark (Grade: 1, $5).

Code: 35000211
Price: $5.00
Westminster Abbey by night
Unused card but the reverse is almost gone due to tape abrasions. Grade: 5

Code: 35000212
Price: $0.50
Nin Mach Temple, Babylon (Iraq)
Unused Saddam-era card, with Arabic and English captions on the reverse. Aging. Grade: 2

Code: 35000213
Price: $16.00
Masjid Omar Ali Saifuddin (mosque), Brunei
S.W. Singapore card B 9010, mailed from Malaysia (not Brunei) in 1991 with a Negeri Sembilan stamp and nearly complete postmark. Orange postal bar coding at bottom reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 35000214
Price: $4.00
St. Nicholas’ Church, Amsterdam
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 35000215
Price: $1.00
Stoke Poges, Church, with Gray’s pew (England)
In 1926, Carrie wrote a message to Bessie on the reverse of this atmospheric sepia card but it was not postally used. Gray, of Elegy fame. Grade: 4

Code: 35000216
Price: $2.50
Notre-Dame Church, Montreal
Unused card with perforated edge indicating it came from a set. Also, a thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 35000217
Price: $1.00
Notre Dame de Bonsecours Church, Montreal
Unused card. Thumbtack hole. Grade: 5

Code: 35000218
Price: $1.00
Trinity United Presbyterian Church (Venice, Florida)
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 35000219
Price: $1.00
Der Kolner Dom (Cologne, Germany)
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 35000220
Price: $1.00
Washington Cathedral
Also known as The Cathedral of S.S. Peter and Paul, “still under construction” when the card was mailed in 1961 with a 4-cent stamp. The readable postmark is at the bottom of the reverse, and the card itself is heavily creased all over. Grade: 4

Code: 35000221
Price: $1.00
Church of Our Lady, Munich
Unused but heavily aged card. Grade: 3

Code: 35000222
Price: $1.00
Church of Our Lady, Munich
Unused card with serrated edges and a thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 35000223
Price: $0.50
Moravian Church, Lititz (Pennsylvania)
The card looks black and white but it is actually either coloured badly or mis-registered. In any case it’s unused. Grade: 1

Code: 35000225
Price: $1.50
Hangchow, West Lake, Taukwong Temple (China)
We are guessing the writer of this card, mailed in the USA in 1925 with a one-cent stamp and full Pennsylvania postmark, was a Catholic nun who was either in transit or who got the card out of the country somehow for mailing. Grade: 3

Code: 35000226
Price: $7.00
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Dayton, Ohio)
The pre-printed message thanks the recipient for attending service and invites them to consider joining the congregation. Card was mailed with a postage meter in 1983, with partial postmark overlapping, and has been somewhat heavily handled. Grade: 3

Code: 35000227
Price: $1.00
Westminster Abbey, London
We freely admit that postcards of this building are not in short supply. But maybe this is just the view you’ve been looking for? Unused Hinde card with significant tape abrasions on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 35000228
Price: $0.50
Higashihonganji Temple, Kyoto (Japan)
Unused card, not at all new but looks new. Grade: 1

Code: 35000229
Price: $8.00
Multiple temple views, Bangkok
The four temples are identified in the caption of this card, mailed in 1994 with four stamps (one is abraded, as is the entire right reverse of the card) and two large postmarks. FYI, the temples are: Wat Phra Kaeo, Wat Arun, Wat Benchamabophit, and King Rama IX Royal Park–all Bangkok landmarks. Grade: 4

Code: 35000231
Price: $5.00
Kribi, Cameroon – church
Mailed in 1975 from Yaounde with two large stamps and a fair bit of postal battering around the edges. Still, these can’t be too easy to find. Grade: 2

Code: 35000232
Price: $8.50
Man Mo Temple, Hong Kong (set of four)
These are special. The set of four different unused cards (we only show one here, through the plastic wrap they are provided in) comes directly from the counter in this, Hong Kong Island’s oldest Taoist temple, dating from 1847. If you buy these, you are contributing to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals that administers the temple. And if you come to Hong Kong, this temple is a must-see. Grades: 1

Code: 35000233
Price: $14.00
Turku Cathedral (Finland)
From 2010, mailed with an Aurora Borealis stamp and Priority airmail sticker affixed. Grade: 1

Code: 35000234
Price: $3.00
Besakih temple (Bali)
Unused, contemporary card captioned as “Mother Temple of Bali”. Three are available. Grades: 1

Code: 35000235
Price: $3.00
Lourdes, multiple views (France)
Souvenir des Sanctuaires de Lourdes — and five views identified in the caption — on this unused, real-photo Quinault card with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 35000236
Price: $6.00
Kehen Temple (Bali)
Three of these unused, contemporary cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 35000237
Price: $3.00
Foshan Ancestral Temple (PRC) (folio)
This photo shows only the back cover of this unwrapped, unused, and somewhat handled folio. Ten different cards (you see them here) are connected by a perforated edge inside. Each card has bilingual Chinese and English captions. Grades: 1

Code: 35000238
Price: $8.00
Neukirchen v. Wald (Germany)
The front of the card is fine. The reverse is too, except that the address and the Deutsche Post postage together are printed on a sticker overriding other writing in the address section. Grade: 4

Code: 35000239
Price: $1.00
Hooglandse Kerk, Leiden (Netherlands)
Smudging on the front is compensated for by three different and colourful stamps, full postmark, and blue bilingual Priority sticker affixed on the reverse. This card measures about 5″ x 7″. Grade: 2

Code: 35000240
Price: $2.00
Old and new cathedrals, Salamanca (Spain)
Mailed in 2010 with .78e stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 35000241
Price: $1.00

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