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 Lighthouse
Location: Russia

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

Lighthouses of the World series

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Location: USA
Sent from: Russia

Russia

Gelendzhik Front Light
Location: South of Russia

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 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

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.