Massachusetts – Global Postcard Sales

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Cape Cod, Chatham Lighthouse
Card dates from mid-90s. Two stamps, and legible postmark, but from California. Minor edge abrasion. Grade: 2

Code: 10122001
Price: $2.00
Boston, Sheraton Plaza Hotel and John Hancock Building
Plastichrome Colourpicture card P33107 from mid-1960s, unused except for a small pencilled checkmark above stamp area. Grade: 3

Code: 10122003
Price: $2.00
Cambridge, M.I.T.
Nice unused Tichnor Brothers, Lockwood Studios, Lusterchrome card K-5608 (sounds like the opening credits for a movie, doesn’t it?) from the mid-1960s, showing Harvard Bridge and lots of smokestacks. Grade: 1

Code: 10122006
Price: $3.50
Nantucket, Stone Alley and Town Clock
Unmailed card from New Bedford News Company (Curteich 86887-N) was folded in half and has a travel agency rubber stamp on the reverse. With edge abrasions also, this card would be OK if framed but space filler otherwise. Grade: 5

Code: 10122007
Price: $1.50
Cambridge, Harvard Square
There must be a few Harvard people out there, putting postcard collections together. Here’s your view from–let’s say–the 50s. Unused Colourpicture card P18263. Grade: 2

Code: 10122008
Price: $2.50
Boston, skyline and harbor
The card would be as-new except that the view definitely isn’t. Unused Bromley & Company card C16591 (and BM206) showing Boston skyline and harbor from top of the Prudential Tower. Grade: 2

Code: 10122009
Price: $2.00
Cambridge, Harvard Square
Tichnor Bros. card K-2539, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10122011
Price: $5.00
Nantucket, Brant Point Light
Unmailed linen card showing this old lighthouse and the skyline of Nantucket. It’s Tichnor card 75313, never mailed but it was folded in half and also has a travel agency rubber stamp on the reverse. Best use for this card would be framed along with other lighthouse cards. Grade: 4

Code: 10122013
Price: $1.50
Plymouth, Portico over Plymouth Rock
Mailed in 1974 from Philadelphia, with readable postmark, and 3 and 5-cent stamps. Minor postal bumping on the corners. Grade: 2

Code: 10122014
Price: $2.00
Boston, Georges Island, Ranges Light
One of our nicest lighthouse cards, yet if you Google this you will see the card, the scene, and the description have controversy attached. No matter, it’s a great card–unmailed but with an extensive long-ago message on the reverse. Reichner Brothers card 1284, made in Germany. Grade: 4

Code: 10122015
Price: $12.00
Cambridge, Washington Elm
Unused Souvenir Post Card Co. card #4350 from the late 1910s or early 1920s of this iconic tree.

Code: 10122016
Price: $6.00
Boston, John Hancock Bldg. and Arlington Church
Springtime view of “the new and the old in Boston.” Well, new in the 1960s anyway. Colourpicture card P3311, unused. Two unused cards are available. One looks good (Grade: 1, $3) and the other just a bit less (Grade: 2, $2)

Code: 10122017
Price: $3.00
Boston, Trinity Church
Trinity Church, “one of the finest examples of Romanesque Architecture in the world,” with more historical facts on this unused Colourpicture card P64190 (B-173) from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10122019
Price: $2.00
Provincetown, Cape Cod, aerial view
Cape Cod Souvenirs card was mailed not from Provincetown, but from Denver (with partly legible postmark, and 50-cent “Switzerland” stamp) in 2003. Grade: 2

Code: 10122020
Price: $2.00
Provincetown, aerial panoramic view
The front of this card is the same as 10122022 (except for condition), while the reverse is laid out slightly differently and has a slightly different index number (PT-181) from South Cape Distributors. This card was mailed from New Jersey in 1999 with a 55-cent stamp that the Post Office has so thoroughly obliterated it is clear they didn’t want anyone to save it. But we did. There’s a fold on the lower right front of the card. Grade: 4

Code: 10122021
Price: $1.00
Provincetown, aerial panoramic view B-181
The front of this card is the same as 10122021 (except for condition), while the reverse is laid out slightly differently and has a slightly different index number (B-181) from South Cape Distributors. This card was mailed from Buzzard’s Bay MA in 1992 with two Cassatt 23-cent stamps (both torn) and significant postmark smudging on the front. Grade: 5

Code: 10122022
Price: $1.00
Concord, Thoreau artifacts
Artifacts owned by Henry David Thoreau, in the Concord Museum. This card was mailed in 1990 with a 36-cent airmail stamp and mostly legible Providence, RI postmark. A few dents and dings. Grade: 3

Code: 10122023
Price: $1.00
Nantucket, Old Jail
Old, battered, unmailed American Art Post Card Co. card 628, folded in half and with a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the reverse. Not so nice but if you’ve been looking for a card of Nantucket’s old jail, here it is. Grade: 5

Code: 10122024
Price: $2.00
Boston, waterfront
Let’s call this a robust card of the Boston waterfront. Mailed in 1990 with fully readable postmark and 36-cent Sikorsky airmail stamp. Minor postal battering around the edges, nothing significant. Grade: 3

Code: 10122025
Price: $2.00
Boston, Sheraton-Plaza Hotel, Merry-Go-Round Lounge
Two unused cards are available, from the mid-1960s. “Circus-like fun.” Just what the sophisticated hotel needed. Grades: 1

Code: 10122026
Price: $4.00
Boston, Park Plaza Hotel
Two of these unused cards from the 1960s are available, gently aging on the reverse. Grades: 2

Code: 10122027
Price: $2.00
Boston, New State House
It looks like this card was issued by Filene’s Restaurant in Boston, but definitely it was mailed in 1946, with stamp and fully legible postmark. Minor age mottling. Grade: 1

Code: 10122028
Price: $4.50
Cambridge, Harvard Square
We suppose Harvard Square might look like this after a hard night of partying. The 4.25″ x 6″ card was mailed in 1991 with a 40-cent Gilbreth stamp and has two overlapping Boston postmarks. Very minor postal handling. Grade: 2

Code: 10122029
Price: $3.00
Old Sturbridge Village, Pliny Freeman Farmhouse
Unused card 71076. Grade: 2

Code: 10122033
Price: $1.00
Greetings
Unused Dexter Press card DR-30036-B. Grade: 1

Code: 10122034
Price: $2.00
Cape Cod, Dunes
Unused “local” card 111740 with a minor notation in the postage area. Grade: 3

Code: 10122035
Price: $1.00
Boston, Faneuil Hall
Unused Mike Roberts card BM-189 with a minor notation in the postage area (Grade: 3)

Code: 10122036
Price: $1.00
Mohawk Trail, The Elk
Unused Mike Roberts card with someone’s initials in the postage area. Grade: 3

Code: 10122037
Price: $1.00
Concord, Minute Man statue
Unused and aged Plastichrome card P49155-B148. Grade: 3

Code: 10122038
Price: $1.00
Sandwich, Cape Cod
Unused Curteichcolor card 5C-K2122 showing the old Water Mill and Pond, Congregational Church and Christopher Wrenn Tower. Grade: 3

Code: 10122039
Price: $1.00
Eastham, windmill
Unused Curteichcolor card 7C-K1805 of “the oldest on Cape Cod,” across from the Town Hall in Eastham. Grade: 1

Code: 10122040
Price: $4.00
Eastham, windmill
Unused Lusterchrome (Tichnor) card K-2094, advising us that this windmill “is still grinding corn.” Grade: 1

Code: 10122042
Price: $4.00
Chestnut Hill, Boston College
Unused Yankee Colour Corp. card 19652 dated 1964, showing St. Mary’s Hall, Gasson Hall, and Bapst Library. Grade: 1

Code: 10122043
Price: $2.00
Boston, Public Garden and Arlington St. Church
Old, unused but heavily abraded and stained M. Abrams card. Grade: 5

Code: 10122044
Price: $0.50
Boston, Entrances to Hotel Hemenway and The Fenway
Unused, stained but serviceable M. Abrams card 105193. Grade: 4

Code: 10122045
Price: $3.00
Cape Cod, Eastham, First Encounter Beach
Unused “local” card 30453 (C-292) showing where early settlers first met Indians on December 8th, 1620. Grade: 4

Code: 10122046
Price: $1.00
Boston, New Art Museum
Unused, heavily stained and abraded Mason Bros. card. Grade: 5

Code: 10122047
Price: $2.00
Boston, Lake in Public Garden
Unused, heavily stained and abraded Metropolitan News card from the earliest 1900s. Grade: 5

Code: 10122048
Price: $1.00
Boston, Charles River Esplanade and West Boston Bridge
Mailed in 1943, this linen card has the full postmark but the stamp is gone. Heavily aged. Grade: 4

Code: 10122049
Price: $2.00
Boston, Public Garden
You can see from the scan, a big hole taken out of the right side of the unused card. Grade: 5

Code: 10122050
Price: $0.50

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