Vernon W. Pickering

Country: BULGARIA

Condition: DUERER: YOUNG MAN

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK *** A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a postage stamp affixed on the view side cancelled (postmarked) with maximum concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard)

Country: AUSTRIA

Condition: RAINER * FORMED EYE

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK *** A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a postage stamp affixed on the view side cancelled (postmarked) with maximum concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard)

Country: UPPER VOLTA

Condition: GAUGUIN * FLOWERS

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK *** A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a postage stamp affixed on the view side cancelled (postmarked) with maximum concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard)

Country: AUSTRIA

Condition: KOKOSCHKA * SELF PORTRAIT

Description: SPECIAL FIRST DAY OF ISSUE POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: HUNGARY

Condition: ERZSEBET: NUDE DEVOTION

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: HUNGARY

Condition: ISTVAN: OH WELL!! NUDE

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: HUNGARY

Condition: DUERER * NATIVITY

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: HUNGARY

Condition: DUERER * THE 4 APOSTLES

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: FRANCE

Condition: DEWASNE * AURORA SET

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL PICTORIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: FRANCE

Condition: DELAUNAY * JOY OF LIVING

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: ITALY

Condition: CREMONA * THE IVY

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL PICTORIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: ITALY

Condition: SASSOFERRATO * MADONNA

Description: MILANO 1985 PICTORIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: ITALY

Condition: LIPPI * VIRGIN IN ADORATION

Description: MANGIA PICTORIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: ITALY

Condition: PALMA * SANTA BARBARA

Description: VENICE POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: United States

Condition: JAMES MADISON

Description: PAINTING BY CHARLER WILLSON PEALE * FIRST DAY OF ISSUE POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: ITALY

Condition: ST LUKE ACADEMY MEDAL

Description: The 500 year old Roman Academy is an institution that has had some of the most famous painters as members - St Luke being the painters patron as is believed he painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary. SPECIAL PICTORIAL MATCHING POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: VATICAN

Condition: RAPHAEL * ANNUNCIATION

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL POSTMARK * A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: TURKS & CAICOS

Condition: DUERER SISKIN MADONNA

Description: GRAND TURKS POSTMARK * THERE NEVER EXISTED THIS MAXIMUM CARD WITH SPECIAL FIRST DAY OF ISSUE POSTMARK - EITHER THIS OR NONE * IF YOU OPT FOR NONE, THEN YOUR COLLECTION IS NOT COMPLETE *** VERY VERY RARE MAXIMUM CARD * [AFTER 40 YEARS COLLECTING MAXIMUM CARDS I KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING] By the way this and similar cards offered here were prepared by Professor Morera - THE GREATEST AUTHORITY IN MAXIMUM CARDS -- In those days maximum cards were not produced by the 100s, Prof. Morera sent a few cards to the various post offices and that was that, were it not for him there would be none of these very important and rare maximum cards *** A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a matching postmarked postage stamp affixed on the view side. The ideal maximum card has concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard). However such a perfect concordance is not always 100% achievable because at the time the maximum card was processed there were no matching postmarks available.

Country: TRIESTE A

Condition: LEONARDO TRIESTE COVER 1952

Description: VERY USEFUL TO THE THEMATIC COLLECTOR, OVERALL VERY FINE

Country: HUNGARY

Condition: LEONARDO HUNGARY 2 ON REGISTERED

Description: POSTALLY USED - very useful to the specialist * QUALITY IS VERY FINE

Country: AUSTRALIA

Condition: MINA MINA Australia Art M C

Description: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL PICTORIAL POSTMARK

Country: ITALY

Condition: PELLIZZA DA VOLPEDO 4th ESTATE M C

Description: A Maximum Card has a postage stamp affixed on the view side of a picture postcard and a cancellation (postmark) with maximum concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard - or elements of it -- with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard)

Country: SWITZERLAND

Condition: PABLO PICASSO, SWITZERLAND EXHIBITION

Description: Early Picasso exhibition - elusive poster stamp with young portrait of the painter - very fine

Country: BURUNDI

Condition: POPE INNOCENT X BY VELASQUEZ MAXIMUM C

Description: RARE BURUNDI MAXIMUM CARD

Country: VATICAN

Condition: POPE PAUL III & ST IGNATIUS MAXIMUM CARD

Description: IMPORTANT MAXIMUM CARD