Seashells – Global Postcard Sales

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Shells from the Coasts of Florida
Unused Koppel Color Card FG-18 (2795) that seems to name nearly all of what you see here in the reverse caption. Short note inked above the caption. Grade: 3

Code: 38700001
Price: $0.50
Sea shells from Florida
With serrated edges, a 9-cent stamp, a full Orlando postmark from 1977, the address on an affixed label, and various USPS rubber stamp marks on the front, here’s your definitive (almost) collection of Florida’s shells. Grade: 4

Code: 38700002
Price: $1.00
Legend of the sand dollar
We don’t always think of sand dollars as animals, but so they are. Unused, somewhat aging Curteichcolor card D-17507, with serrated edges. Grade: 2

Code: 38700003
Price: $1.00
Legend of the sand dollar
Unused card with a 13-cent stamp on it. Without the stamp, the card is Grade 1; because of the stamp, we need to downgrade it to Grade 3–reluctantly.

Code: 38700004
Price: $1.50
The story of shells
Mailed in 1963, the card has a 5-cent Gettysburg commemorative stamp, an Ocean City full postmark, and a sort of messy message. Grade: 4

Code: 38700005
Price: $1.50
Eternal call of the sea
Unused Plastichrome card P54988F. Grade: 1

Code: 38700006
Price: $2.00
“Shelling”
This poem by Gladys Childs on an unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 38700007
Price: $0.50
Generic seashells
Postcard made in, and mailed from, Germany in 2012, with two stamps, postmark, and trilingual Luftpost sticker affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 38700008
Price: $2.00
Dutch card
This 4-5/8″ x 7-1/8″ card is generic and was mailed from Netherlands in 2012 with stamp and Rotterdam postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 38700009
Price: $2.00
Our Strange Sand Dollar (USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 73652-B, dated 1963 and aging a bit. Grade: 2

Code: 38700010
Price: $0.50
Shell Names (USA)
Two of these unused Dexter Press cards DT-17474-B are available. One has a person’s name and date (1973) inked across the address area (Grade: 4, $0.50) and the other is aging but has no extra writing (Grade: 3, $1).

Code: 38700011
Price: $1.00
Baltic Sea Molluscs, Finland
The very long Finnish caption on the back begins with Itämeren Nilviäisissä (Baltic Sea molluscs), and down at the bottom there is one sentence in English: Let the Baltic Sea Live! Mailed from Finland in 2013 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 38700012
Price: $2.00
The Southernmost Point, Sea Shells for Sale (Florida)
Oddly, the unused Curteichcolor card 0EK-328 (FK.160) doesn’t say exactly where this is. We know (Key West) but it just seems like a strange omission. And at $1 per shell, you know this is an older postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 38700013
Price: $2.00
Shell on beach (Ukraine)
Internet card, made in and mailed from Ukraine with two stamps, and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 38700014
Price: $1.00
Romantic set of 30 cards
Our scan shows you the back cardboard cover of this unused set, showing (we think) the 30 romantic-and-beach-and-seashell themed cards inside. Grade: 1

Code: 38700015
Price: $15.00
Shells (set of five) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
Once again, five unused maximum cards from 1994, captioned in Korean and with the scientific names: Neverita didyma, Gomphina veneriformis, Cardium muticum, Buccinum bayani, and Phalium strigatum. Grade: 1

Code: 38700016
Price: $22.00
Legend of the Sand Dollar (USA)
Compare with our 38700003, which is not quite the same. This is unused, aging Curteichcolor card 3DK-411 (CK.427). Grade: 2

Code: 38700017
Price: $1.00
Generic
Mailed from Germany with stamp, postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 3

Code: 38700018
Price: $0.50
South Padre Island (Texas)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38700019
Price: $1.00
Conchs (Bahamas)
Are any left, in those crystal waters? Unused, aging but unmarked card. Grade: 2

Code: 38700020
Price: $3.00
Shellcrafts (Philippines)
The front of this (otherwise unused) card is OK. The reverse is not, with remnants of an old rubber band stuck to it, and a barcode sticker. The problem is the rubber band, not the sticker. Grade: 5

Code: 38700021
Price: $0.50
The Islands of The Bahamas
Unused, wholly “local” card. Grade: 1

Code: 38700022
Price: $3.00
Florida Sea Shells (USA)
Despite the somewhat amateurish presentation, this informative card is as useful now as it was when it was printed in the 1960s. Unused, Koppel Color Card FG 118 (66835) from Dodson’s Shell Shop. Grade: 1

Code: 38700023
Price: $3.00
The Sand Dollar, Shells & Poinsettia (Bahamas)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38700024
Price: $1.00
Florida .. A Shell Collectors Dream
From 1991, and yes, it does have (on the reverse) “She sells sea shells at the sea shore.” Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38700025
Price: $1.00
Shells of Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38700026
Price: $1.00
Lower Gulf Coast of Florida
Unused Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone card 313-F (1B-H2493). Grade: 1

Code: 38700027
Price: $1.00
Sea Shells (USA)
A beginner’s collection on a nice, unused, Dexter Press card D-54424-B that’s just starting to age. Grade: 1

Code: 38700028
Price: $1.00
Souvenir from … (USA)
Really old, unused, embossed seashell postcard. We are guessing the sender was meant to write a location on the front, though the design seems like a missed opportunity. Grade: 1

Code: 38700029
Price: $1.00
Treasures of the Sea (USA)
Unused Dexter Press card DT-438-C from 1965, beginning to show its age. Grade: 1

Code: 38700030
Price: $1.00
Florida
This 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ seashell postcard is unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38700031
Price: $1.00
Germany
Another seashell postcard that wants us to focus on the photo but not to tell us what they are. That’s fine. Mailed from Germany in 2020, with two stamps, postmark, and trilingual Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 38700032
Price: $1.00
Florida’s Seashells
Unused Plastichrome card P313032F (FL-32), serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 38700033
Price: $1.00
Representative Collection (USA)
Unused Astrocard HSC-F-63-C, serrated edges. If you’re a collector of seashell postcards, you can’t get much more definitive than this. Modest aging. Grade: 1

Code: 38700034
Price: $3.00
Sea Shells (USA)
Aging, older, unused Dexter Press card D-66535-C (7-24) with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 38700035
Price: $1.00
Shells and shoes (USA)
We’re not certain what the shoes add to the picture, but here it is, on an aging, unused, Dexter Press card DR-54430-B with serrated edges. (“unspoiled beaches”!) Grade: 1

Code: 38700036
Price: $1.00
Kaohsiung Medical University – fauna (Taiwan)
Here’s a set of 12 unused cards from Kaohsiung Medical University. We’re not certain what prompted these, but all but one have Latin (scientific) names on the reverse, along of course with Chinese. Six show seashells; four show birds; one is an insect (the golden-spotted tiger beetle, to be exact), and one — it’s in the upper left of our scan, we have no idea what that is. A few of the cards have small stickers on the lower right reverse, possibly correcting an error made in the text of what also shows without stickers on the remaining cards. Having said all that, we have four sets available, all Grade: 1

Code: 38700037
Price: $9.00
Hall of Mollusks and Mankind (USA)
Disclaimer: these are not seashells! But we liked the photo (and the card) enough to include it here anyway. Unused Dexter Press card 33179-D from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. These are Cuban Tree Snails (Polymita) and are terrestrial mollusks. Grade: 1

Code: 38700038
Price: $3.00
Can you hear the ocean roaring
Until the present day we have never really understood why we can hear the ocean when we hold a shell up to our ear. And no, we don’t want anyone to explain it. Mailed in USA in 1912 with stamp and postmark, this is American Post Card “Little Poets” Series 202, Subject 2969. Grade: 2

Code: 38700039
Price: $3.00
Gulf Coast (USA)
One of the very, very few seashell postcards where we actually recognise most of those we see in the picture. Unused Deep South postcard DS-31. Grade: 1

Code: 38700040
Price: $2.00

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