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Corrientes, Av. Costanera y monumento a la madre (Argentina)
Unused 4-1/8″ x 7″ Edicolor card 3.936/1, aged and foxed. Grade: 3
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Recuerdo de Mendoza (Argentina)
… with a winter view of Cristo Redentor, Las Cuevas, and Puente Picheuta. Unmailed, aging Edicolor card 1344, 4-1/8″ x 7-1/8″. Someone has written a date that we decipher as 1979 on the back. Grade: 3
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Puerto Madryn (Chubut), Indio Punta Cuevas (Argentina)
Unmailed 4″ x 7-1/8″ Grafica card 9277. In 1990, someone handwrote a notation on the back. Grade: 4
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Recuerdo de Punta Alta (Argentina)
Unmailed 4″ x 7-1/4″ card with a message in Portuguese from 1976 taking up the entire reverse. Grade: 4
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Rio de Janeiro, multiple views
Unused card, and all these views are identified in the Portuguese-language caption on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Monumento a D. Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago (Chile)
These views are all identified (in Spanish) in the caption on the back of this card, mailed in 1990 with two stamps and large postmark. It’s an aging card with bumps and bruises, but all-in-one, after all. Grade: 3
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Punta Arenas, Plaza Muñoz Gamero Nevada (Chile)
The Dexter Press card 57559-C also shows the monument to Hernando de Magallanes. Not postally used, but with messages and notes from 1972 filling the reverse. Grade: 4
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Santiago, Plaza General Baquedano
Mailed in 1979 with a postage meter. The card is aged but unbowed. Grade: 2
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La Habana, Parque Central (Cuba)
Unused, older card with two small pieces of tape on top reverse. Grade: 3
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Santo Domingo, Parque Colon (Dominican Republic)
A statue of Christopher Columbus on this unused card. Very minor age spots. Grade: 2
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Talara, Main Square (Peru)
Unused card dated 1975 and sponsored by Faucett Airlines. We’re sorry, we don’t know who’s on the pedestal but a quick online search should tell you, or you could phone Talara Information. Grade: 1
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Montevideo, Monumento a la Carreta Escultor Jose Belloni (Uruguay)
Unused card, gently aging and still in fine condition. Grade: 1
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Caracas, Monumento a Cristobal Colon con “reloj floral” (Venezuela)
Unused old card with several abrasions on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Caracas, Estatua del Libertador – Plaza Bolivar (Venezuela)
Unused older card with several abrasions and age spots on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Campo Carabobo, Monumento “La Patria al Soldado Venezolano” (Venezuela)
The monument bears the date 1971, and the card cannot be much later than that — unused, with album abrasions on the back. Grade: 4
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Casa Hacienda San Jacinto (Nicaragua)
Unused, with significant aging and foxing on the reverse. This is “Monumento al Coronel Jose Dolores Estrada”. (The caption is in English and Spanish.) Grade: 3
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University of Panama, “Towards the Light” statue
Unused H.S. Crocker Mirro-Krome card FF-219, substantially aged. Grade: 2
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Buenos Aires, multiple views
All these views are identified in Spanish on the front, and English on the back, and include La Boca, the Monument to Labour, and a lake in the Zoological Gardens. Mailed in 1957 with stamp and partial postmark. Very heavily aged, but undeniably authentic. Grade: 3
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Buenos Aires, Monumento Almirante Brown
Unused, quite old real photo card, very heavily aged but “real” in every sense. Grade: 2
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Buenos Aires, General San Martin Monument
Unused, older card 251. Grade: 2
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Mar del Plata, Panorama and Ramos Monument (Argentina)
Unused, aging card showing minor foxing. The monument is of Patricio Peralta Ramos. Grade: 2
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Mendoza, Cerro de la Gloria (Argentina)
Unused but handled old postcard. Grade: 2
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Recuerdo de Punta Alta, multiple views (Argentina)
In 1976, someone wrote a message on the back of this card, but didn’t postally mail it. The views include Parque Gral. San Martin, a night view of calle B. de Irigoyen, and a partial view of the city. Grade: 4
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Cochabamba, multiple views (Bolivia)
Unused Jiminez card 5055. Views include Cristo de la Concordia, Palacio Portales, and Represa de la Angostura. Grade: 1
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La Paz, Plaza Obelisco, El Soldado Desconocido (Bolivia)
Unused Fenno card BC 128. Grade: 1
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XIII Exposicao Filatelica Luso-Brasileira – Os Candangos (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Unused maximum card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1990, slight aging and with serial number 006905. Grade: 1
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XIII Exposicao Filatelica Luso-Brasileira – A’ Justica (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Unused maximum card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1990, aging and with serial number 006996. Grade: 2
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XIII Exposicao Filatelica Luso-Brasileira – Evangelista São João (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Unused maximum card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1990, aging and with serial number 007118. Grade: 2
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XIII Exposicao Filatelica Luso-Brasileira – As Banhistas (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Unused maximum card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1990, aging and with serial number 007207. Grade: 1-
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Boyaca, Monument to the Rondon Lancers – Vargas Swamp (Colombia)
In 1992, someone wrote this card for mailing, but there’s no stamp or postmark. Grade: 4
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Montevideo, Plaza Independencia, Vista nocturna (Uruguay)
Were we the caption writer, we might have taken a different approach. But that’s not important. Unused, aging Disma card M.2 with minor spots on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Montevideo, Plaza de Cagancha with Peace Column (Uruguay)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Paysandu, Monumento a Artigas (Uruguay)
Unused, heavily aged real-photo card. Grade: 2
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Birmingham, Vulcan Park atop Red Mountain (Alabama, USA)
“The Vulcan is the second largest steel statue in the U.S.A., the Statue of Liberty being the largest.” (That’s in the caption.) Unused Curteichcolor card. Grade: 1
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Chicago, Lincoln Park, Grant Monument (USA)
Cute message on this early 1900s card, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Minneapolis, Minnehaha and Hiawatha Statue (Minnesota, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P18659. The statue is in (surprise!) Minnehaha Park, just above Minnehaha Falls. Grade: 1
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Westerly, Cristoforo Colombo Monument at Wilcox Park (Rhode Island, USA)
Unused “local” card. Grade: 1
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Lynchburg, Jack Daniel’s Statue and Spring (Tennessee, USA)
You either know Jack Daniel’s or you don’t. We used to. Unused card, slight aging. Grade: 1
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Wawa (ON), The Wawa Goose (Canada)
Unused Prismaflex card. “Wawa” apparently comes from the Ojibway word meaning “wild goose”. Grade: 1
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Kaunas, multiple views (Lithuania)
Mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and bilingual Prioritaire label. Views apart frpom the city include the Military Museum, Freedom Monument, and a sculpture entitled “‘Sacrifice’ to the Lithuanian freedom fighters”. Grade: 1