my postcard collection

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
updates:

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.

Tolbukhin Lighthouse
Location: Russia
Notes: first maxicard I ever received!

Basargin

Basargin Lighthouse
Location: Russia

Sõru leading lights
Location: Estonia
Note: some killer stamps, too!

Lighthouses of the World series

Cape Hatteras

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Location: USA
Sent from: Russia

Russia

Gelendzhik

Gelendzhik Front Light
Location: South of Russia

Tokarevsky

Tokarevsky Lighthouse
Location & sent from: Vladivostok, Russia
Notes: the sender also had the back stamped with special lighthouse postmarks!

Front and rear leading lights
Location: Gulf of Finland

Bolshoi Tyuters Lighthouse
Location: Gulf of Finland

Kuznetsov

Kuznetsov Lighthouse
Location: La Pérouse Strait, Sakhalin island
Sent from: Sakhalin island

Front leading light of the St.Petersburg Sea Channel
Location: Gulf of Finland

Tokarevsky Lighthouse
Location: Vladivostok
Sent from: St. Petersburg

Aniva Lighthouse
Location: Sakhalin Island

Aniva Lighthouse
Location: Sakhalin Island

USA

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Location: Hatteras Island, North Carolina

Point Wilson Lighthouse
Location: Port Townsend, Washington

Eastern Point Light
Location: New England

Fort Gratiot Lighthouse
Location: Port Huron, Michigan
Sent from: Belarus

Lynde Point Lighthouse
Location: Connecticut

Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse
Location: Hillsboro Beach, Florida
Notes: cool USA stamps!

Cana Island Lighthouse
Location: Lake Michigan, Wisconsin
Sent from: Russia

Split Rock Lighthouse
Location: Lake Superior, Minnesota
Sent from: Russia

Germany

Balje Lighthouses
Location: Niederelbe

List-Ost Lighthouse
Location: Sylt Island

Dornbusch Lighthouse
Location: Hiddensee

Westerheversand Lighthouse
Location: Westerhever, Schleswig-Holstein

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.

Friedrichsort Lighthouse, Holtenau Nord Lighthouse, Kiel Lighthouse, Bülk Lighthouse
Location: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein

Büsum Lighthouse
Location: Büsum, Schleswig-Holstein

UK and Guernsey

Alderney Lighthouse
Location: Alderney Island, Guernsey
Sent from: Belarus

St Mary's Lighthouse
Location: near Whitley Bay, England
Sent from: Germany
Notes: another one of those German lighthouse stamps

Portland Bill Lighthouse
Location: Dorset, England
Sent from: Russia

First Eddystone Lighthouse (built by Henry Winstanley in 1698)
Location: Eddystone Rocks, Cornwall, England

France

The lighthouse of Four
Location: Brittany, France
Notes: this was a card from my best friend who added these awesome lighthouse stamps

Kermorvan lighthouse
Location: Brittany, France
Sent from: Russia

Beg Léguer lighthouse
Location: Lannion, France
Sent from: Germany
Notes: has cool German lighthouse stamps

Other countries

Peggy's Cove Lighthouse
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

Pointe-au-Père Lighthouse
Location: Quebec, Canada
Notes: the sender used a Canadian stamp shaped like a maple leaf!! Absolutely incredible.

Lyngvig Lighthouse
Location: Hvide Sande, Denmark
Sent from: Germany

Skagen Lighthouse
Location: Skagen, Denmark
Sent from: Germany

West Schouwen Lighthouse
Location: Burgh-Haamstede, The Netherlands

Paard van Marken Lighthouse
Location: IJsselmeer, The Netherlands
Sent from: Russia

Fangar Lighthouse
Location: Delta de l'Ebre National Park, Spain

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.

Lighthouse of Genoa
Location: Genoa, Italy

Genoese Lighthouse
Location: Mangalia, Romania

Art

Sent from: Russia

Sent from: Russia

The Guiding Light by Thomas Kinkade
Sent from: Russia

Sent from: Russia

Sent from: Russia

Sent from: USA
Notes: the picture was drawn by the sender's husband

Sent from: Russia

Sent from: Russia

Sent from: Germany

Sent from: Russia

Sent from: Russia

Sent from: Russia