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Kuala Lumpur, National Sports Complex (Malaysia)
As the caption in English informs, “Venue to the 1998 16th Commonwealth Games … the Main Stadium at the National Sports Complex in Bukit Jalil is able to accommodate 100,000 spectators. Yacine card 38508, unused but with a small amount of handling. Grades: 1-.
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Elland Road, Leeds (England)
Unused card produced in 1995 or 1996, with an extensive caption explaining everything. Grade: 1
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Stadio Edda Ciano Mussolini, Livorno (Italy)
Now known as Stadium Armando Picchi, the facility was named Stadio Edda Ciano Mussolini between 1935 and 1945. (Edda was the eldest child of Benito; later a Countess and on the cover of Time Magazine.) Unused, browning sepia card with serrated edges. Grade: 1
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Arena
Art Unlimited card C 6626, not otherwise identified, produced in The Netherlands. Unused but with some fingermarking on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Gruss aus Baunatal, multiple views (Germany)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Beautiful Vienna (Austria)
Unused card, serrated edges. Views include Wiener Stadion and Riesenrad. Mild foxing on the reverse. Grade: 2
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München, Olympiastadion (Germany)
Unused card, captioned in German only. Grade: 1
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München – Olympic Park with Olympic Tower (Germany)
Unused, heavily aged card, captioned in German, French, and English. Grade: 3
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Kaiserslautern, Fritz Walter Stadion (Germany)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Unused real-photo card, significant foxing (mottling) on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Smoke
If you’re a stadium postcard fanatic, you might know where this is. We don’t, because the unused card has no identification or information apart from “Proudly printed by Digital4”. Grade: 2
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Bolton, Burnden Park (England)
Unused card with an extensive historical caption. Grade: 1
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Berlin, Olympiastadion
Unused card, significantly aging. Serrated edges. Grade: 3
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Athens, The Stadium
Unused, aging, and heavily handled card. Grade: 3
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Kiev, Olympic Stadium (Ukraine)
Compare this with our entry 35200309, this CCCP-era card is in the style of a maximum card but the postage is pre-printed. The reverse is blank. Unused. Grade: 1
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Olympic Football 1980 (USSR)
Unused CCCP item in the style of a maximum card, but not quite because the postage is pre-printed. The reverse is blank. Minor foxing. Grade: 2
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Donetsk, Donbass Arena (Ukraine)
Unused card. The arena has been damaged during the current fighting. Grade: 1
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Araçatuba – SP – Estadio Municipal Adhemar de Barros (Brazil)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Arapiraca – AL – Estadio Municipal (Brazil)
Unused, aging card. Grade: 3
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Andirá – PR – Estádio João Hermógenes de Andrade (Brazil)
Unused card, browning somewhat with age. The caption misspells part of the stadium’s name as “Hermógnes”. (It’s amazing how we discover these things.) Grade: 2
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Andrelândia – MG – Estádio José Gustavo Alves (Brazil)
Unused card with small round brown stains on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Araraquara – SP – sports facilities (Brazil)
Best that we just repeat the caption (sorry, not including unique alphabetical elements): “Ginasio de Sport ‘Castelo Branco’, Piscina e Estadio da Associacao Ferroviara de Sport”. The card was not postally used but has writing and rubber-stamp chop marks taking up most of the message area. Grade: 4
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Arcoverde – PE – Estadio Souto Maior (Brazil)
Unused card with two small round spots on reverse corners. Grade: 3
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Bandeirantes – PR – Estadio Comendador Luiz Meneghel (Brazil)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Sao Francisco Church and Stadium Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Unmailed card that has a person’s name and address rubber-stamped on the back. Grade: 4
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Estadio Magalhaes Pinto (Brazil)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Igreja de Sao Francisco; Mineirao (Brazil)
Unused card, beginning to show its age. Grade: 2
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mineirao – Pampulha 63 (Brazil)
Unused card. The “63” refers to the card’s own reference number. Compare this with our item #20203058, identical but for the border. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Pampulha, Mineirao e Mineirinho (Brazil)
Unused card with two small brown spots on opposing reverse corners. Grade: 2
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mineirao – Pampulha 16 (Brazil)
Unused card, with “16” being its own reference number. Grade: 2
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mineirao Soccer Stadium
Unused card with two noticeable spots on opposite corners of the reverse. Grade: 3
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Igreja Sao Francisco de Assis; Mineirao; Mineirinho (Brazil)
As uninspiring as the photo is on this unused card, it’s one of the few to give the full names of these facilities, even with some background information. Two stadiums, one church. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Estadio Magalhaes Pinto (Brazil)
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card, aging and roughly handled over the years. Grade: 3
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Vista da Represa Pampulha, Estadio Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Not postally mailed, but with a very long message in tiny print covering the entire reverse. Grade: 4
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Estadio Independencia (Brazil)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Igreja de Sao Francisco; Mineirao; Mineirinho (Brazil)
Not postally mailed, this card has a name and address taking up half of the message area. The bilingual caption–unusually for this series of cards–identifies Igreja de Sao Francisco as “Oscar Niemeyer’s Church” and the two stadiums as “Soccer Stadium” and “Sports Stadium.” It’s all there in Portuguese, though. Grade: 4
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mineirao Ano XII (Brazil)
Unused card, aging, “Vista aerea do Estadio Minas Gerais,” and sponsored by Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Vista aerea do Mineirao (Brazil)
Not postally mailed, and with a name/address rubber-stamped on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Campina Grande – PB – Estádio Amigão (Brazil)
Unused, aging card with brown spots on two reverse corners. Holding 35,000 people, the stadium’s formal name is Estádio Governador Ernani Sátyro. Grade: 3
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Campo Grande – MS – Pedro Pedrossian Stadium (Brazil)
Pedrossian was governor of Mato Grosso state from 1966 to 1971, before the state was divided. As for the card, it’s aging and has two round brown spots on opposite corners of the reverse. Grade: 3