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Old Plantation Cabin
From the early 1900s, unused New Orleans News Company unnumbered PolyChrome card. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, St. Charles Hotel, Alfred S. Amer & Co., Ltd
Apart from just showing the hotel, this specialty postcard 16975 was sent by the Alfred S. Amer & Co. outlet at the St. Charles Hotel News Stand and Candy Dept. to notify customers that whatever they had purchased had been sent out. This particular card is unused, but the message area in the back is pre-printed with a message to that effect, with details to be filled in. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, Ocean Steamer Loading
Unused and very old (and aged) C.B. Mason postcard, edge abrasions. Grade: 2
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New Orleans, Canal Street at night (no border)
E.C. Kropp card no. 78 (and 266), mailed in 194_ (no number!) with stamp and full postmark except for that digit. Some kind of abrasion on upper left and lower right reverse. Grade: 4
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New Orleans, Canal Street at night (border)
Mailed in 1932 with stamp and full postmark, and judging from the message, the sender and the receiver were both lucky. Grade: 1
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New Orleans 941
This unused card S-76894 of Car No. 941 of the New Orleans Public Service system looks a little bit older than its printed date of 1961. Grade: 2
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Baton Rouge, Old Deaf and Dumb School
Unused Bookshop News Agency card 11110. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, The Cabildo
In 1944, A.P. remarked to Mrs. Jones about New Orleans’s “oldness” in this linen card, mailed with one stamp and postmark, and some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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New Orleans, The Louisiana Superdome
Unused Plastichrome card P308125 (and PG11) with serrated edges. Grade: 1
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St. Martinville, Evangeline statue
Unused real photo card. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, Beignets
Not just New Orleans, of course, but that’s all there is in the reverse caption. Unused contemporary recipe postcard. Grade: 1
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Louisiana, The Pelican State, map
A Louisiana map postcard mailed in 2012 with four different stamps (three of them cancelled) and readable Shreveport postmark. Very minor postal creasing. Grade: 2
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New Orleans, St. Louis Basilica
The Basilica was built in 1794; the unused Plastichrome card P65936 somewhat later, but well-aged. Grade: 3
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New Orleans, Howard Memorial Library
Some vintage postcards are old and stained and just look tired. This one is old and stained and is full of character, like old battle scars. Undivided back, mailed in 1905 with stamp and clear postmark. We must grade it accurately, but if you are looking for classic library postcards, this will do. Grade: 4
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Sabine Pass Lighthouse
Unused card issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2009. It has 28-cent pre-printed postage (in Maximum Card style, but this is not a Maximum Card) of the same lighthouse. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, Elks Place and Southern Railway Terminal Station
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 1B-H2406 showing this “Scenic Spot in the Heart of the Business Section,” long ago. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, Courtyard of Little Theatre
Official name: Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, nicely presented on this unused E.C. Kropp card 19396. Some age mottling (foxing) on the reverse. Grade: 2
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New Orleans, Jackson Square
You could almost write a term paper with all the information in the caption. Unused card 29789 from E.C. Kropp, of “New Orleans – America’s Most Interesting City”. Grade: 2
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New Orleans, Old French Courtyard
From Vieux Carre to you, an unused E.C. Kropp card 23840. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Shreveport
Classic, unused, linen, Curteich-Chicago large letter card 8A-H2381. It would be hard to find a more iconic unmailed example of this type of postcard. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, The Pakenham’s Oaks
Unused E.C. Kropp card 19053. Grade: 2
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Avery Island, Bird Sanctuary
Unused H.S. Crocker card GLR-542. Somehow it avoids mentioning Tabasco. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, The St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Memorial
Unused card with an X inked into the upper right front corner. Grade: 5
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New Orleans, New Hotel Monteleone
Unused old card, but owing to its condition it can only be considered Grade: 5. (The hotel itself? Still there and sounds great.)
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New Orleans, St. Roch’s Chapel
Unused E.C. Kropp card 16987, noticeably aging but otherwise clean. Grade: 2
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Shreveport, Aerial View and New U.S. Veterans Hospital
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 9B-H1725. Grade: 1
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Capitol
Unused, aging Curteichcolor card 6C-K1552 (J.47). Grade: 2
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New Orleans, Jazz
Mailed in 2017 with three “Forever” flag stamps and readable postmark. Very minor postal creasing on one corner. Grade: 2
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Capitol
Mailed in 2019, with stamp and two extra stickers. Obscured postmark over the stamp. Grade: 4
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New Orleans, Streetcars
From the “Did you know?” series, a card mailed in 2020 with five different stamps (three of them postmarked), an extra postal sticker, and pasted address and index labels. Grade: 4
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Greetings from New Orleans!
… on Bourbon Street. Unused B&W card. Grade: 1
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Greetings from New Orleans! (streetcar)
Unused B&W card. Grade: 1
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Greetings from New Orleans! (sidewalk band)
Unused B&W card. Two are available. Grades: 1
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New Orleans, Greetings From Le Vieux Carre!
We suspect this photo was taken during a Mardi Gras celebration. Unused B&W card, and two are available. Grades: 1
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New Orleans, Frenchmen Street
Unused card. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, Canal Street and Streetcars
Old B&W photo on a much later card, unused. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, Mardi Gras Float
Old B&W photo on a much later card, unused. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, Docks on the Mississippi
Old B&W photo on a much later card, unused. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, balconies
Unused, uncaptioned. Grade: 1
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New Orleans, Mardi Gras costume
Unused, colourful postcard — but the reverse is blank. Grade: 1