Unused Aeditions card 867.  Grade: 1

Kristaq Rama was the sculptor of this statue/monument to Shote Galica, a Kachak of the Albanian insurgent national liberation.  Unused card from Tirana dated 1982.  Some smudging on the reverse.  Grade: 2

You’ll have no doubt about the date of the card, from what you see on the front as well as the two postmarks (sending and receiving offices) on the back.  Stamp is also there.  Undivided back card.  Grade: 2

We thought you might like to know about Ruben Dario, so we have borrowed from Wikipedia here:  “Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916), known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío has had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism.”  Unused card, good on the front but heavily aged and foxed on the reverse.  No extraneous writing, though.   Grade: 3

The scan for 31700361A shows you the unfolded paper cover of a series of 18 unused 3-5/8″ x 8-1/4″ cards from all around the country.  The scan for 31700361B shows you a sampling of three of those cards (horizontally).  All cards are captioned and fully attributed, in Russian.  If you need help in knowing what all the locations and objects are, please ask us.  The cover is a bit scuffed, but altogether, still,  Grade: 1

See 31700361A.  (This is a statue of Vladimir Lenin.)

Unused Bakhti card.  Grade: 1

We had not run across many cricket postcards, so are happy to be able to offer this one, Greetings from Barbados.  Unused apart from a name inked onto the message area on the back.  All these scenes, including the statue of The Rt. Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers, are identified in the caption.  Grade: 3

All three views are identified on this unused card from 2000:  the Provincial Capitol, Iba Town Hall, and President Magsaysay Birth Mark (a legitimate but unfortunate turn of phrase).  Grade: 1

The detailed and historical caption somehow doesn’t say that the statue is in Makati.  Unused card, serrated edges, from 1996, with original pricing/barcode sticker placed at source (not a defect); but also the card has aged and shows some handling.  Grade: 3

Unused, aging C.T. Art-Colortone linen card 3A-H193.  Grade: 1

Mailed in 1908, with postmark and stamp.  The card is very heavily aged, but of course it is very old too.  Grade: 3

The indistinct postmark suggests this card may have been mailed in 1910.  As is our wont, we wanted to know more about either the commune or the saint himself, so we went again to Wikipedia, which told us:  “Saint-Quentin is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It has been identified as the Augusta Veromanduorum of antiquity. It is named after Saint Quentin, who is said to have been martyred there in the 3rd century”.  (We are almost 100% certain you will see that exactly the same way we did.)  Grade: 2

Mailed on an unknown date, this sepia card has its stamp and indistinct postmark.  Grade: 3

Unused card showing “beautiful and exotic orchid hybrids” and The Merlion, Singapore’s national symbol.  Is it a statue?  A fountain?  We won’t stress over it.  Grade: 1

Unused but aging real-photo card #227 from C.A.P. (Paris).  Grade: 1

This unused Aeditions card 1054 represents Albania postcards maybe better than most.  The photographer did a good job, as the statue sits at one side of a massive public square that was eerily deserted on the summer Sunday we were there.  Grade: 1

Largely views from the southern half of the country.  The statue in the main photo is Skanderberg’s monument in Tirana.  Unused Aeditions postcard 1098.  Grade: 1

The views include (as captioned) Peja’s City Center; Prizren’s old town; and Prishtina’s Skenderbeg statue and Governmental building.  Unused card.  Grade: 1

Unused.  Grade: 1