Buffalo Bill – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 30 postcards

Former residence of Buffalo Bill (North Platte, Nebraska)

Unused card 1539 from Barkalow Bros., Railway News Contractors, of Omaha and Denver. The sub-header about Union Pacific RR suggests a connection. Noticeable album indents on corners, otherwise perfectly OK for its age. Grade: 2

Code: 37700001

Price: $6.00

Former residence of Buffalo Bill (North Platte, Nebraska)

Big Chief Lodge, Orillia, Ontario (Canada)
The story is worth more than the card. It was mailed (with stamp and postmark) to a USA address, and then forwarded to another, causing the large and full postmark on the front. The sender–the proprietor of the lodge–was a descendant of Buffalo Bill, and the card bears the proprietor’s full signature. Alas, the condition of the card is terrible. Full disclosure! Grade: 5

Code: 37700002
Price: $2.50
Buffalo Bill (USA) (folio)
Miniature (2-7/8″ x 4-1/4″) album of ten cards, from 1950s or 1960s, all meant to be sent together as a souvenir. Has a red rubber stamp of authenticity on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 37700003
Price: $20.00
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Unused card from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center of the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming. Grade: 1

Code: 37700004
Price: $3.00
Annie Oakley
Unused card of an 1890 poster at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming. Miss Annie Oakley – The Peerless Lady Wing-Shot. Grade: 2

Code: 37700005
Price: $3.00
Buffalo Bill Shop, Cody (Wyoming) (card and print form)
We must call this a novelty item. Briefly, the postcard is taped together with an order form from the publisher into which print requirements could be entered on both sides. So the value here is in the process, more than the card itself, which we can’t grade for that reason. The price includes the card and the form (see 10151029B as example).

Code: 37700006
Price: $8.00
Greetings from North Platte (Nebraska)
This card is really all about Buffalo Bill Cody–Fort Cody Trading Post, Scout Rest Ranch, and his home. Mailed in 1969 from Seward, with stamp and full postmark. An X is written into the upper left corner. Grade: 4

Code: 37700007
Price: $6.00
Buffalo Bill statue, Cody (Wyoming, USA)
Mailed in 1972 with commemorative stamp and full Cody postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 37700008
Price: $3.00
Shoshone Irrigation Reservoir – Buffalo Bill Country
Unused card issued by the Burlington Route (railroad) as “The National Park Line.” Grade: 2

Code: 37700009
Price: $3.00
Greetings from Nebraska “The Cornhusker State” (USA)
Unused, contemporary card. Grade: 1

Code: 37700010
Price: $2.00
Buffalo Bill’s Original Home, North Platte (Nebraska)
Hard to say from the caption what this home became, or is now, but we do know it was built in 1886 and that “Cowboys and Indians were entertained.” Unused Dexter Press card 10xDT-5005-C. Grade: 1

Code: 37700011
Price: $1.00
North Platte, Colonel W.F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) (Nebraska)
Unused Curteich-Chicago “C.T. American Art” card 1B-848N. Grade: 1

Code: 37700012
Price: $3.00
Buffalo Bill on his favorite horse, Isham
Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 37700014
Price: $2.00
Buffalo Bill on Hunting Trip
Mottling old, unused Cooper Post Card 7C-K1168 (C-233) of a painting in the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum at Lookout Mountain, Colorado. Grade: 2

Code: 37700015
Price: $2.00
Buffalo Bill Museum, Lookout Mountain (Colorado, USA)
Unused John Hinde card BB1, beginning to show a bit of age. Grade: 2

Code: 37700016
Price: $2.00
Cody, Lake Shore Drive, Buffalo Bill Reservoir, Shoshone Canyon (Wyoming, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 3DK-1236. Grade: 1

Code: 37700017
Price: $1.00
Col. W. F. Cody
Unused Mike Roberts card C10309 showing a 1903 potrait (sic) by Arthur Jules Goodman. Grade: 2

Code: 37700019
Price: $2.00
“Buffalo Bill” – William F. Cody, Frontiersman
And why do we have this category, anyway? Good question. Maybe some day we’ll write a Blog entry about it. As for this postcard, it’s unused and Grade: 1

Code: 37700020
Price: $1.00
Lookout Mountain, Grave of Buffalo Bill (Colorado, USA)
Among Buffalo Bill postcards, this one is as close to “fun” as it is possible for any postcard with a grave on it to be. In 1943, Margaret wrote to Helen about her visit–stamp and postmark are there–and strongly suggested how great it would be if they could both live there. (Presume she didn’t mean right at the gravesite.) Linen card, with a pencilled line through the street address. Grade: 2

Code: 37700022
Price: $2.00
Oklahoma City, Buffalo Bill statue (USA)
A card for many categories, and slowly but surely we are building up a supply of Buffalo Bill postcards. This statue is at the Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum in Oklahoma City. Unused Dexter Press card 53716-D-S-OC716, with album marks on two reverse corners. Grade: 2

Code: 37700023
Price: $2.00
Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody, Wyoming)
All of these fellows are identified in the caption on this unused card (“Wild Bill Hiscock”?) . Grade: 1

Code: 37700024
Price: $1.00
Buffalo Bill and (8) Indian Men, 1886
One by one, little by little, we build up our supply of Buffalo Bill postcards, just waiting for you to come along and have them. This more contemporary card is unused, and all eight Native Americans along with Bill are identified. Grade: 1

Code: 37700025
Price: $1.00
Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody, Wyoming) – Col. W.F. Cody
Unused. Two of these are available. Grades: 1

Code: 37700026
Price: $2.00
Studio Portrait, 1909
This is an unused, contemporary card from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. It’s the portrait that dates from 1909, not the card. Grade: 1

Code: 37700027
Price: $1.00
Chimney Rock (Wyoming, USA)
Unused card J1231, of this natural feature along Buffalo Bill Highway between Cody and Yellowstone National Park. Grade: 1

Code: 37700028
Price: $2.00
The Laughing Pig (Wyoming, USA)
Unused card J1233, and the scene is on the Buffalo Bill Highway (U.S. 14-20) between Cody and the east entrance to Yellowstone Park. Grade: 1

Code: 37700029
Price: $2.00
Scout and Showman
This high-quality Azusa card 125 focuses on Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, which opened in 1883. He really made that work. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 37700030
Price: $3.00
North Platte, Greetings from Fort Cody Trading Post (Nebraska, USA)
This massive souvenir shop is still there, thriving, and gets a slew of positive reviews. Its own site says: “Fort Cody Trading Post has been a landmark on the Nebraska prairie since 1963! Visitors that came as children are now bringing their own kids or grand kids to savor that sweet touch of ‘Roadside Americana’ that is so quickly disappearing in the U.S.A. A stop at Fort Cody is to many a step back into a more simple and gentle time. To others, it is a brand new adventure to explore and enjoy!” (If we were there, we would buy postcards for sure.) As for this card, it’s Plastichrome P52917, older — but at least after 1963 — and unused. Grade: 1

Code: 37700031
Price: $3.00
Greetings from North Platte (Nebraska, USA)
Unused card SK7610, the kind we’d like to be surprised by, from “The Home of Buffalo Bill”. Grade: 1

Code: 37700032
Price: $3.00
Cody, Pahaska Tepee (Wyoming, USA)
Unused card of Buffalo Bill’s hunting lodge, built in 1904 and near Yellowstone National Park. Now a resort hotel. Grade: 1

Code: 37700033
Price: $2.00

Total: 30 postcards