Tolbukhin Lighthouse
Location: Russia
Notes: first maxicard I ever received!
I FUCKING LOVE LIGHTHOUSES, if you haven’t realized that already. Both postcards and lighthouses are special interests of mine, so, naturally, I consider this my “main” collection. Most of these are scanned by me, and you can click on each picture to open a bigger version :)
- These cards are organized by lighthouse location country - not to be confused with sender country because they are often different. Sometimes I specify sender country under the postcard, usually exactly when it happens to be different from the location of the lighthouse
- Sometimes there are cool stamps or something else about the card I want to talk about – those go in the “notes” section under the postcards
- I lumped all the lighthouse maxicards I have together and put them on top of the page because they are a collector’s item and I want to brag about them:D
23.11.2024: added a new card with a French lighthouse; French lighthouses have their own section now
04.02.2024: two new cards: a German lighthouse one and one with a drawing of a lighthouse lamp
Maxicards
Maxicards are postcards that feature an image, a stamp with a similar or related image on the picture side of the postcard, and a special postmark that thematically relates to the images.Sõru leading lights
Location: Estonia
Note: some killer stamps, too!
Lighthouses of the World series
Russia
Tokarevsky Lighthouse
Location & sent from: Vladivostok, Russia
Notes: the sender also had the back stamped with special lighthouse postmarks!
USA
Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse
Location: Hillsboro Beach, Florida
Notes: cool USA stamps!
Germany
Wittenbergen Lighthouse
Location: Hamburg
Notes: the stamp on the card features another lighthouse that forms a pair of leading lights with the lighthouse on the front of the card! I just think it's neat.
UK and Guernsey
St Mary's Lighthouse
Location: near Whitley Bay, England
Sent from: Germany
Notes: another one of those German lighthouse stamps
France
The lighthouse of Four
Location: Brittany, France
Notes: this was a card from my best friend who added these awesome lighthouse stamps ♥
Beg Léguer lighthouse
Location: Lannion, France
Sent from: Germany
Notes: has cool German lighthouse stamps
Other countries
Pointe-au-Père Lighthouse
Location: Quebec, Canada
Notes: the sender used a Canadian stamp shaped like a maple leaf!! Absolutely incredible.
Tenlochico Lighthouse
Location: Isle of Tambo, Spain
Notes: very colorful Spanish stamps!
Isola dei Cavoli Lighthouse
Location: Sardinia, Italy
Notes: I don't often get cards from Italy, so cute Italian stamps are always worth celebrating.