Statues – Page 10 – Global Postcard Sales

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Monument to Hysni Kapo, Vlorë (Albania)
No, we did not know who this gentleman was, so we looked it up. Hysni Kapo was a military commander and leading member of the Party of Labour of Albania. A member of the Communist Youth group, Kapo was first distinguished as an artillery commander in the Battle of Drashovica. He was born in Vlorë District, thus the monument. Unused but highly aged card dated 1982 and captioned in Albanian, English, and French. Grade: 3

Code: 31700393
Price: $4.00
Flower Dance – Sculptor Zana Varvarica (Albania)
Our header here is the English part of the bilingual caption. The Albanian portion is no more instructive. We suppose this is in Tirana but the card doesn’t say, and when you enter any of this into Google, well … try that for yourself. Older, unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31700394
Price: $3.00
Krabi, Khanan Nam (Thailand)
Google “Khanan Nam” (front caption) or even “Khanon Nam” (reverse caption), and you might be left scratching your head. So we’ll leave that to you. Two cards are available. One is unused (Grade: 1, $2) and the other was mailed in 2019 with two stamps, two full postmarks, and a blue Airmail label (Grade: 1, $4).

Code: 31700395
Price: $2.00
Capt. John Smith (Jamestown, Virginia, USA)
Unused card would be perfect were it not for an abrasion under the “ES” in Jamestown. It’s not visible in the scan, but it is on the card. Grade: 4

Code: 31700396
Price: $0.50
Monument to Peter the Great, and Mikhailovsky Castle, St. Petersburg (Russia)
Russian postcards do often focus on the historical. Here, a contemporary card captioned in six languages and mailed in 2014 with two different stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 31700397
Price: $2.00
Myzeqare dance (Maksim Bushi) (Albania)
Maksim Bushi is a well-known sculptor/artist about whom surprisingly little is online in English. If you can read Albanian, you’re good to go. The name of this particular work — in Albanian — is Valle Myzeqare. Unused card with smudging on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 31700398
Price: $4.00
Monument of the Four Heroines (of Mirdita), Rreshen (Albania)
Sculptors responsible for this monument include Dh. Gogollari, F. Dushku, and Perikli Çuli, in 1971. It’s an older, unused card and we understand the monument is no longer there. Grade: 1

Code: 31700399
Price: $8.00
View of Durres (Albania)
SHB card dated 1984, unused. (Belated thanks to them for putting the date on most of their postcards. It really helps us.) Grade: 1

Code: 31700400
Price: $4.00
Međugorje (Bosnia), Statue of Mary 061
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31700401
Price: $2.00
Statuette of a satyre (Athens National Museum)(Greece)
On this unused card, the full (English) caption: “ATHENS – National Museum – Bronze stattuette of a satyre 6th century b.C.” Grade: 1

Code: 31700403
Price: $3.00
Monument to Unknown Hero, Avala (Serbia)
The history, and attractions, of Avala Mountain, near Belgrade, are briefly covered in the captions on the reverse of this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31700404
Price: $2.00
Victor, symbol of Belgrade (Serbia) BG04
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31700405
Price: $2.00
Victor, symbol of Belgrade (Serbia), daytime
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31700406
Price: $2.00
Stevan Sindjelic monument, Nis (Serbia)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31700408
Price: $2.00
Stevan Sindjelic monument, Nis (Serbia)
At the National Museum of Nis. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31700409
Price: $2.00
УСПОМЕНА ИЗ НИША (Memories from Niš) – multiple view, statues (Serbia)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31700410
Price: $3.00
Greetings from Niš, Liberators Monument (Serbia)
Unused 4-5/8″ x 6-5/8″ card, with nicely detailed bilingual captions (Cyrillic/English). Grade: 1

Code: 31700411
Price: $4.00
Monumentul I.C. Brătianu, Bucharest (Romania)
The monument of Ion C. Brătianu, Prime Minister of Romania several times over, was designed by architect Petre Antonescu and made by the French sculptor Ernest Henri Dubois after winning an international competition organized in 1900. It was inaugurated on May 18, 1903 at the intersection of Colței Boulevard (now IC Brătianu Boulevard) with King Carol I Boulevard, on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the death of Brătianu . The monument was funded by public subscription. We just felt like explaining this old view on a contemporary (2013) unused card from the Municipal Museum. There’s more to the story, right up until now. Curious? Google. Grade: 1

Code: 31700412
Price: $3.00
Statue of Liberty, New York City
This is about the minimum we charge for any card, especially one like this that’s been mailed. We know that postcards of the Statue of Liberty are not in short supply. This one however has something that most others don’t: an uncancelled, round, 2020 Global Forever stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 31700413
Price: $0.50
Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame (Wisconsin, USA)
Mailed in 2021, this card has the postmark and three different stamps (including one commemorating American football) and some postmark ink transfer on the front: in all respects an iconic card for this storied franchise which at the time we write this seems intent on shooting itself in the foot. But by the time you read this, let’s hope all is forgiven/forgotten. Grade: 2

Code: 31700414
Price: $3.00
Christ of the Ozarks, Eureka Springs (Arkansas, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C22030, whose caption calls this “one of the largest (statues) in the world”. That may have been true then, but according to our friends Google and Wikipedia, it barely registers now, at 65.5′ (20 meters) high, while the tallest at the moment is the Statue of Unity, in India, at 182 meters. This suggests how old the postcard might be, but we can help because Christ of the Ozarks went up in 1966. Grade: 1

Code: 31700415
Price: $1.00
Temecula, Bible Land (California)
The caption on the back of this unused, aging Dexter Press card 40118-B goes into great detail about this statue of Jesus in Gethsemane and how similar statues were made, but we’ll let (this condensed version from) Wikipedia continue the story for you: “Bible Land was a free roadside attraction, originally located in Temecula, and later moved to Yucaipa, California. Built during the late 1960s by sand sculptor Ted Conibear, the attraction featured various scenes including a life-sized rendition of the Last Supper. Conibear maintained the attraction until his death in 1994. His son, Don, attempted to keep the landmark intact but the sculptures had been badly eroded by wind and insects, and Conibear felt that any type of restoration effort would in-authenticate the work of his father. Conibear also looked for someone to maintain the sculptures and investors to keep the site running but did not find either. It was believed that Ted had told Don to destroy the sculptures so they would not fall victim to vandalism, but the son reportedly debunked that rumor. The former site, a short distance east of the Live Oak Canyon Road exit along the northern shoulder of Interstate 10, remains empty and undeveloped.” The card, however, survives. Grade: 2

Code: 31700416
Price: $3.00
Coloma, James W. Marshall Monument (California)
Old, unused, C.T. Art-Colortone card 7B-H428 (49-14) of this imposing statue. And you are asking: who was James W. Marshall? The “Discoverer of Gold”! There’s more to the story, of course. Grade: 1

Code: 31700417
Price: $2.00
Soldier’s National Monument, Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, USA)
Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address here. Unused Plastichrome card P304656. Grade: 1

Code: 31700418
Price: $2.00
Gettysburg, Warren Monument (Pennsylvania, USA)
This unmailed card’s breathless caption tells what happened there but nothing about the man in the statue, so we will fill in that blank for you (from an online source): “The monument to Brigadier General Gouverneur Kemble Warren is on Little Round Top. General Warren (West Point Class of 1850) was Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg.” The card has an August 1963 date written above the caption. Grade: 3

Code: 31700419
Price: $1.00
Salt Lake City, Brigham Young Monument (Utah, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C13336, describing Brigham Young as “a leading figure in the forming of the West”. Grade: 1

Code: 31700420
Price: $3.00
Batu Caves, Lord Murugan (Malaysia)
Mailed a few years ago, with large stamp, obscured postmark, and blue bilingual Mel Udara label. Grade: 1

Code: 31700421
Price: $3.00
Dieppe, La Statue de Duquesne (France)
Everything an antique postcard should be. Fred was on a voyage in 1936 and sent this card to America from Southampton in England (and the stamp is still there) explaining his itinerary — and the statue. He would not have known what was soon to happen. With postmark transfer on the front, and so on, this card is only Grade: 3 … but it is a great example of communication in that era. It deserves a good home.

Code: 31700422
Price: $5.00
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: 31700423
Price: $3.00
Rome, Garibaldi Monument and Monte Gianicola
Old, unused, unattributed card showing a scene in a quieter time. If you don’t know the area, Wikipedia advises: “The Janiculum (Italian: Gianicolo), occasionally the Janiculan Hill, is the second-tallest hill (the tallest being Monte Mario) in the contemporary city of Rome … the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city.” Grade: 1

Code: 31700424
Price: $3.00
Count Rumford (Benj. Thompson) Monument (Woburn, Massachusetts, USA)
This is one of those postcards where we feel obliged to tell you who’s who. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th-century revolution in thermodynamics. (He was born in Woburn in 1753.) (No, we didn’t know either.) Unused old, undivided back card. Grade: 1

Code: 31700425
Price: $3.00
Mexico City, Diana Cazadora

Commonly known as La Diana Cazadora (Diana the Hunter), this 1942 bronze nude sculpture atop a fountain is actually meant to represent the Archer of the North Star. La Diana stands at the center of a major traffic intersection so is hard to approach. The League of Decency under the Ávila Camacho administration had the sculptor add a loincloth to the buxom figure, which the artist cleverly attached with just two pins in hope of easy removal in more enlightened times; it was removed in 1966. There’s your back story for this unused Editorial Mexico postcard 1095, with a couple of small bumps on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 31700426
Price: $3.00
Gov. Winthrop Statue, New London (Connecticut, USA)
Unused old postcard in fine condition. Grade: 1

Code: 31700427
Price: $3.00
Prague, Woodrow Wilson Monument (Czech Republic)
We often need to be careful when we interpret old postcards, and here’s a case in point. Standing alone, it’s an unused sepia card captioned in four languages, very heavily aged and a small separation on the reverse upper right corner. It just says “The Wilson Monument” (in English) and someone long ago penciled “1920s” lightly on the reverse. But when we went to learn more, we came up with this online source dated 2011: “WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Seventy years after its destruction by Nazi troops, a memorial statue honoring President Woodrow Wilson will return to its original location on Oct. 5 in Prague … The Wilson Monument commemorates the role that the former U.S. president played in helping the Czech people achieve independence in 1918 …” So there! Grade: 4

Code: 31700428
Price: $5.00
Copenhagen, Langelinie, The Little Mermaid (Denmark)
Unlike some cards that make it seem like this iconic statue juts way out into the water, here’s a different perspective. All we know is that the poor girl has had more than one head since this photo was taken. The unmailed card’s front is good; on the back, an inked 1971 date and a short message from Ulfa. Grade: 3

Code: 31700429
Price: $2.00
Paris, La Vierge de la Paix (France)
From the “Paris … en Flanant” real-photo series, Basilique du Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre, La Vierge de la Paix by G. Serraz, on this unused older postcard with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 31700430
Price: $2.00
George Leonida (Romania)
You see a small sculpture. We see Gheorghe (the actual spelling) as having been born in Galati in 1892 or 1893, and having debuted his sculptural works in 1915, at a national salon. After fighting in World War I, Leonida continued art studies in Italy for three years. Then in 1925, he moved to Paris, where Paul Landowski had just received the commission to collaborate with Heitor da Silva Costa in the conclusion of the architectural monument Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. Leonida was hired by Landowski to sculpt the statue’s head. The work began in 1926, and was completed in 1931. He continued sculpting, and died in the spring of 1942, falling off the roof of his family home in Bucharest, while picking linden flowers. So this unassuming postcard is connected by only one degree of separation to one of the most famous statues in the world. Grade: 1

Code: 31700431
Price: $2.00
Duelul (Johan Molin) (Romania)
The unused card somehow misleads us into thinking Molin was Romanian. Not so: Johan Peter Molin’s father was a baker who lived in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1843, Molin travelled to Copenhagen to study; later, he lived in Paris and then Rome. From 1853 he taught at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and two years later he was appointed professor in sculpting. In 1859 he completed the sculpture The Knife Wrestlers (“Bältespännarna”), which is what you see on this unused card from Romania. Copies of this work exist in Gothenburg, in Stockholm and in other Swedish cities. Maybe in Romania too, but we don’t know. Grade: 1

Code: 31700432
Price: $2.00
Honolulu, Statue of Duke Kahanamoku (Hawaii)
Located on Kuhio Beach in Waikiki, and shown on this unused 1990 postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 31700433
Price: $3.00
God statue in Repulse Bay 061 (Hong Kong)
We will resist the urge to comment on the caption (bilingual English/Japanese) on this unused 5-1/2″ x 7″ Tourists Cards #061. Grade: 1

Code: 31700434
Price: $4.00

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