New York – Global Postcard Sales

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New York City (American Airlines)
This card of the Brooklyn Bridge was issued by American Airlines, and by the looks of the postage meter, it was given to cabin crew to mail in 1955. Front is normally aged; reverse has a travel agency’s rubber stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 10133001
Price: $3.00
Statue of Liberty
Three of these Progressive Publications K84 cards are available, and while there is usually little to differentiate cards of this monument, one of these (Grade: 3, $6.50) was mailed in 1966 and has an official green rubber stamp on the reverse to indicate it was bought at the statue itself. It also has postmark smudging on the front. The other two were unmailed and could almost be sold as-new today (Grades: 1, $2).

Code: 10133002
Price: $6.50
Statue of Liberty, close-up
Dexter Press card 23524-B (and NY-122) from the 1960s, unused but it has a small pencilled checkmark on the reverse above the stamp area. Card beginning to age on reverse but front is still clean and nice. Grade: 3

Code: 10133003
Price: $2.00
New York City, Copacabana
Typical unused advertising card from the club in the mid-60s. They carefully specify their minimum charges in a way that looks–for lack of a better word–badgering. It has some fingerprint smudges on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10133004
Price: $8.50
Along the waterfront of Lower Manhattan
How nice this card would be, framed in the reception area of a Manhattan office. Just an idea! It’s an unused McGown-Silsby Litho. Co. card (index number may be 327, it’s not distinct), and while it has abrasions and album marks around the edges, it is a classical historical view. It also has the advantage of not showing up in a Google search. At least not the one we did. Grade: 2

Code: 10133005
Price: $6.00
New York City, Grand Central Station and Central Building
Another old New York City card that appears surprisingly few times in a Google search. Published by Manhattan Post Card Co., the view shows “driveway along Park Ave. looking north from 40th St. towards Grand Central Station…” It’s unused and apart from minor edge abrasions is in great condition for its age. Grade: 1

Code: 10133006
Price: $8.00
Fort Ticonderoga
Unused Dexter Press card 72591-B from the 1960s, serrated edges, aging on the reverse, showing an air view facing inner Courtyard of Place d’Armes and South Barracks; West Barracks on right; ruins of East Barracks on left. Some corner creasing, not major. Grade: 2

Code: 10133008
Price: $1.00
Lower Manhattan skyline
Exceptionally clear, unused, Dexter Press card DR-70329-B (also NY-2) including “the new 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank Building” so that helps date the card for you. Grade: 1

Code: 10133009
Price: $3.00
George Washington Bridge
Unused Dexter Press card DR-70333-B (and NY-4) from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10133010
Price: $2.00
Niagara Falls Ice Formation
This unused card was published by Acmegraph Co. of Chicago, and though it suffers slightly from small abrasions and stains on the reverse, it’s really nice overall. As well, it is yet another card that should show up often in Google but doesn’t, for some reason, so it must be scarcer. Grade: 3

Code: 10133011
Price: $14.00
Ft. Ticonderoga, Monument to Scottish Regiment
Unused 1960s card of this monument to “The Black Watch” Scottish Regiment involved in a 1758 battle. Grade: 1

Code: 10133012
Price: $1.00
New York City, Greenwich Village
Mailed in 1967 with Valley Stream postmark and 5-cent stamp, the card shows minor postal use. Grade: 1

Code: 10133013
Price: $2.00
New York City, Empire State Building
Yup, we know, lots of these around. But why look further? 1964 Dexter press DT-76787-B (and NY-83) card, mailed with four one-cent stamps but no readable postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 10133015
Price: $4.00
New York City, Empire State Building
Unused Dexter Press card DT-76786-B of “this giant shaft of masonry.” Grade: 1

Code: 10133017
Price: $2.00
Buffalo, downtown vista
The writer of this card in 1984 clearly wasn’t thrilled to be in Buffalo, but we don’t know why that would be. After all, the card shows “an unobstructed view toward the Erie County Savings Bank.” There’s a partly readable postmark and two 20-cent stamps. Grade: 2

Code: 10133019
Price: $2.00
New York City, Rockefeller Center
This larger (4-1/2 x 6-1/2″) Fotothek Collection card was mailed in 1985, has a mostly legible NYC postmark and a 33-cent Verville airmail stamp. A bit of creasing about the corners, nothing major; and the photo is exceptionally artistic. Ah, these cosmopolitan postcards … Grade: 3

Code: 10133020
Price: $2.50
New York City, aerial night view
Maybe not so unusual, but a nice posted specimen with full 1985 postmark and three 14-cent Sinclair Lewis stamps. Grade: 1

Code: 10133021
Price: $2.00
I Love New York
Basically, this is the Brooklyn Bridge showing the East River and lower Manhattan. Mailed in 1984, the card has a full NYC postmark and a 28-cent 1984 Olympics airmail stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 10133022
Price: $3.00
New York, The Metropolis of the World
This unused card is old and in terrific condition but, alas, has no attribution at all. Ironically it also has a copyright symbol on the front. Grade: 1

Code: 10133023
Price: $8.00
New York City, Chinatown
Detroit Publishing Co. produced “Phostint” cards, of which this unused example 8984 is captioned “In Chinatown, New York.” May date from about 1912. Minor album indents on corners. You may know, parts of Hong Kong still look a little bit like this today. Grade: 2

Code: 10133024
Price: $12.00
New York City, view of Manhattan and WTC
This card was sent from Washington, DC, in 1986–with full postmark, USPS airmail sticker, and 33-cent Verville airmail stamp. Grade: 2

Code: 10133026
Price: $3.00
Ossining, Sing Sing prison
This unmailed card has a small purple diamond-shaped marking inside the postage area. The card itself was published by J. Ruben, Photographer, of Newburgh NY and bears index number 104860. It may just have been bad luck but we couldn’t find anything about this specific card in Google. Only because of the rubber stamp, Grade: 4

Code: 10133027
Price: $9.00
Polo Grounds, National League Baseball Park, New York
Unused and from the early 1910s, if you are a serious baseball postcard collector you should want this, as it appears prominently in several reference books on the topic. That’s John McGraw in the inset. The card is not attributed to any publisher; it has index number 5632 well-hidden in black on the lower right front corner. At the time of opening, in 1912, “the largest Base Ball Park in the United States,” seating 45,000. Grade: 2

Code: 10133028
Price: $19.00
New York City, Radio City Music Hall
Photo possibly from 1950s, card from early 60s, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10133029
Price: $2.00
New York City, skyline at night
In 1988 the writer used four stamps and a USPS airmail sticker to mail this from Washington, DC to Malaysia. Being just about all black, it shows the few postal creases. Grade: 3

Code: 10133030
Price: $2.00
New York City, Times Square
This unused Dexter Press card DT-75425-B (and NY-49) shows one of the many lives of this famous location. Grade: 2

Code: 10133031
Price: $3.00
New York City, Empire State Building at night
A little bit of price premium on this card only because it has six stamps, four of which are cancelled by a Washington, DC postmark. Date was possibly 1988. Minor postal bumping. Grade: 2

Code: 10133032
Price: $3.00
New York World’s Fair, 1964-65
The least odd thing about this Dexter Press DT-86863-B (and W-58) card is that it is unused and has serrated edges. Then we move on to four different dates imprinted (1961, 1962, 1964, 1965) and the notice that this is an OFFICIAL World’s Fair Post Card showing the “economics of a typical small town at work” and advising that “Those who become engrossed can register for a full-credit graduate course in economics taught on the grounds by Adelphi College.” Gee, you just thought you were going to the Fair. Grade: 3

Code: 10133033
Price: $6.00
Niagara Falls, Spanish Aerocar over the Whirlpool
To start, we thought we would check Google and we found many different cards with the same caption, and the same picture with different captions. Go figure. It’s an old card, but in the mid-1990s it was mailed from Japan to Malaysia (by an ardent postcard collector) with a Japanese stamp, of course. Grade: 3

Code: 10133035
Price: $5.00
New York City, Brooklyn Bridge
The view is somewhat generic but the real value is in the writer’s message, nicely understated. Mailed in 1986 with two 22-cent Reticulated Helmet shell stamps. Indistinct USPS imprints on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10133036
Price: $3.00
Niagara Falls, The Rapids above the Falls
Once again, several cards use this same caption and the identical photo has minor variants of the same or similar captions. But we can’t give more information that that because the undivided reverse of this unused card, probably from the earliest 1900s, is completely unattributed. Grade: 3

Code: 10133037
Price: $6.00
New York City, Empire State Building
So many of these pictures look the same … we wonder why … no, we don’t. Mailed from Westchester, NY in 1997 with a 50-cent Chester Nimitz stamp, a USPS barcode on reverse, and the address pasted on a sticker. Some corner bumping. Grade: 3

Code: 10133038
Price: $1.00
New York City, skyline
The classical pre-WTC view of Manhattan Island. Unused Progressive Publications card K81 (and 52931). Grade: 2

Code: 10133039
Price: $2.00
New York City, Central Park as seen from the Empire State Building
Two of these unused Dexter Press DT-75784-B (and NY-64) cards from 1964 are available. One is Grade: 1 ($2) and the other is Grade: 2 ($1).

Code: 10133040
Price: $2.00
New York City, Empire State Bldg. at twilight
Standard view of the city on this unused Progressive Publications card 60524 (and K93) from the 1960s. Grade: 2

Code: 10133041
Price: $1.00
New York City, mid-Manhattan
Unused Progressive Publications card K83 (only one number this time). Chrysler Building is also highlighted. Grade: 2

Code: 10133042
Price: $1.00
New York City, Chinatown
New York City’s Chinatown as it was in the 1960s, on Progressive Publications unused card 63763 (and #63). The written caption on the front basically says Welcome to New York City’s Chinatown. Grade: 1

Code: 10133044
Price: $5.00
Niagara Falls, Bobby Leach awful plunge
This would be an extraordinarily relevant addition to any Niagara Falls collection and we’re not quite sure why it doesn’t show up more often in Google–and then only as part of a display. Bobby Leach’s Awful Plunge took place on July 25th, 1911, and the unused sepia card was copyrighted in 1911 by Photo Specialty Co., Fred B. Peck, Com’l Photographer. A sort of diagonal groove–not a crease–on lower left corner. Grade: 2

Code: 10133046
Price: $22.00
New York City, RCA Building
Our intrepid correspondent in Japan mailed this card from Akasaka (Tokyo) in 1987 to Malaysia, using two stamps. The postmark is fully legible. It also has an airmail rubber stamp. But it’s still the RCA Bldg. from the Acacia Card Co. Grade: 3

Code: 10133047
Price: $3.00
New York, Hotel Governor Clinton
Who knew? This is not a beautiful card but if you’ve been looking for this hotel, you’ve come to the right place. Unused, from the 1940s (?), with an ink splotch over one window, and a torn abraded area on the front right. Grade: 5

Code: 10133048
Price: $3.00

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