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Plymouth Rock
Bad all over. Not postally used, but marked and creased. Grade: 5
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Rose Covered Cottage on Cape Cod
Unused Plastichrome card C18. Grade: 2
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Bourne, Cape Cod Canal
Fully written on the back, but no evidence this card was ever mailed. Grade: 4
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Springfield, Forest Park Brook
Unused Plastichrome card P27972. Grade: 2
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Fort Banks, Hospital Annex and Station Hospital
Two-for-one on an unused Tichnor Bros. card 73885. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Massachusetts, map
This is one of our favourite types of postcard, something for everyone when you have no idea what to send. Mailed in 2013 with three different stamps and inconspicuous orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 2
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Massachusetts – The Bay State
Mailed in 2013 with three different stamps and inconspicuous orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 2
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Cape Cod, Radio Station WOCB
Here’s an abbreviated Wikipedia entry: “WOCB first signed on as an AM station October 2, 1940; the station was originally owned by the Cape Cod Broadcasting Company. It originally operated at 1210 kHz, but moved to 1240 in 1941. WOCB shut down in May 1943 after running out of money, resulting in its license being canceled by the FCC on November 30.” Basically, it’s now WXTK. As for the postcard, it’s Tichnor 76250, not postally used but the writer filled the reverse with a message that may have been sent in an envelope. Grade: 4
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Springfield, Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children
Mailed in 1940, with stamp and full postmark, the card has some postmark ink transfer on the front and some age mottling on the back. Grade: 3
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Greetings from Boston
In the style and even the linen paper stock of an old Large Letter card, but this is contemporary, with serrated edges, and mailed in 2013 with three stamps and postmark. Grade: 1
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Tourists’ Auto Map of Cape Cod
Unused, aging, linen Curteich-Chicago card 3A-H830, minor foxing. Grade: 2
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Springfield, Main St., North of Court Square
Undivided back card, mailed in 1905 with stamp and exceptionally clear postmark. There’s also postmark ink transfer on the front, and a tear of about half an inch into the left edge. Grade: 4.
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The “New Boston” Look from Charles River Basin
Unused Plastichrome card P59986. Aging, but clean. Grade: 1
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Wareham, Post Office and Makepeace Building
Unused old “local” linen card, seems readily available online so we price it lower, just to tempt you. Grade: 1
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Nantucket Island
Plastichrome card P310402, not postally used but with an inked notation in the reverse message area. Grade: 4
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Boston, Old North Church (Christ Church)
Unused card 104 from The New England News Company. Grade: 1
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Boston, Old North Church, Salem Street
Unused, old and heavily aged Massachusetts postcard. Grade: 3
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Boston, Lake Scene in Public Garden
Unused linen card 43955 from United Art Co. Grade: 2
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New Salem, Hill-McNamar Store
This little structure has quite a rich history, as the caption takes pains to explain. Abraham Lincoln worked here when it was a post office … Unused Plastichrome card P5725. Grade: 1
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Historic Highlights of Boston
Unused card whose caption identifies all of those scenes. Grade: 1
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Boston, The New Copley Square
Unused card showing the old and new John Hancock Tower, and Trinity Church. Grade: 1
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Boston, The “Old North Church”
Unused Mike Roberts card SA1260 (SC5671) from the 1960s or earlier. Grade: 1
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Boston, Arnold Arboretum, Forest Hills
The Arboretum dates from 1872 and belongs to Harvard University. This is a really very old unused card that has a small rubber-stamped “Collection of …” mark on the back. Grade: 3
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Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ancient, aged, unused card that is absolutely as faded and dim as it looks in the scan. Reverse has a small “Collection of …” mark on the back. Grade: 3
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Bostons Famous Past
The four scenes are identified in the caption on the back of this card, mailed in 1993 with 19-cent stamp and postmarks. Diagonal crease through lower right edge. Grade: 3
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A Peaceful Cape Cod Village
Unused Dexter Press card 96509 (#421). Grade: 2
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Cape Cod, Sunset on the Bass River
Mailed in 1993 with stamp and clear Boston postmark. Grade: 1
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Gloucester, The Tavern (on the Harbor)
Unused, aging with minor staining on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Oak Bluffs, Entering Inner Harbor through Jetties
Unused old Tichnor Bros. linen card 62931. Aging but clean. Grade: 1
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Plymouth, Memorial Hall
Unused, old, linen, Tichnor Quality Views #80972. Grade: 1
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Plymouth, National Monument to the Forefathers
Unused old card, showing its age a bit on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Plymouth, Old Powder House
Unused old card whose caption blithely tells us that this is, in fact, “a perfect replica of the Original”. Grade: 1
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Plymouth, Pilgrim Hall, Model of the Mayflower
Unused, clean but aging Tichnor Quality Views card #70452. Grade: 1
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Rockport, Yachts at the Entrance to Sandy Bay
Mailed in 1952, with 2-cent stamp and clear postmark. Grade: 1
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Somerville, Prospect View Tower
Unused, old M.I. Paton card of the place “Where first flag of the United Colonies was raised Jan. 1, 1776”. Grade: 1
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South Sudbury, Mary Lamb School at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn
Unused Mike Roberts card MA1649 of the school “attended by Mary Sawyer in the famous poem, ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’.” The school was originally in Sterling, and moved in 1927. Grade: 1
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Springfield, Forest Park, Porter Lake and Paddle Boats
Three of these unused linen “Tichnor Quality Views” card 78024 are available. What a long caption about Forest Park, including that it was “open to automobiles at low speed”. Grades: 1
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Springfield, Storrowton on Eastern States Fair Grounds
Unused, linen, Tichnor Quality Views card 78021. Aging but clean. Grade: 1
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Springfield, Christian Science Church
Unused “Tichnor Quality Views” card 64340. Grade: 1
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An Old Cape Cod Church
Unused old card, with the other side having an undivided back and just the word “Correspondence” at the top, along with “Pub. by New Bedford News Co., New Bedford, Mass.” along the bottom. Grade: 1