Dam – Global Postcard Sales

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Evergreen Dam (Colorado, USA)
Dexter Press card 83661 (and #3086), unused, rounded corners, and Judy Kellogg’s name written in ink on the message panel. Were it not for that, the card would be as-new. However, Grade: 3

Code: 38200001
Price: $0.50
Bull Shoals Dam (Arkansas, USA)
The reverse caption tells us this dam is across the White River, is 283′ high, 2,256′ long, and much more. What the caption doesn’t tell you, Google will. Grade: 2

Code: 38200002
Price: $1.00
Sayers or Blanchard Reservoir and dam (Pennsylvania)
They couldn’t make up their mind? Unused Natural Color Card 125315 of this area, “being developed for recreational activities,” along U.S. 220 just off I-80 between Milesburg and Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. (All that is for the search engines, you know.) Grade: 1

Code: 38200003
Price: $2.00
Hoover Dam (folio) (USA)
Two of these miniature (2-7/8″ x 4″) albums are available. Each was meant to be sent altogether as a souvenir. These date from the 1960s and each has ten “natural color album prints.” One album has a travel agency’s stamp on reverse (Grade: 4, $12) while the other is unmarked but upper right corners are bent a bit (Grade: 2, $16).

Code: 38200004
Price: $16.00
Hoover Dam at night (USA)

Unused Ferris H. Scott / Western Resort Publications card S-4138L2-3 (and FS-755) with just one small corner crease. Grade: 2

Code: 38200005
Price: $2.00
Dam along the Chippewa River (Wisconsin, USA)
In honor of our friend Lin-Lee, who knows Eau Claire much better than we do, here’s an unused Curteichcolor card 6C-K2047. Grade: 2

Code: 38200006
Price: $3.00
Grand Falls Dam and Falls, New Brunswick (Canada)
Unused UNIC card 34876-C (6202) with serrated edges. Grade: 2

Code: 38200007
Price: $3.00
Hoover Dam
Aging unused Plastichrome card P27208 from the 1960s, and if you collect Hoover (Boulder) Dam cards, you can track the age by the cars parked down below. Grade: 1

Code: 38200008
Price: $2.50
Grand Coulee Dam, Washington (Union Oil Company No. 36)
Over the years, Union Oil Company of California issued a series of cards (“See the West with 76 Gasoline”) depicting western U.S.A. landmarks. This unused card is one of those, from 1939. It’s special because it shows the dam under construction. Grade: 1

Code: 38200009
Price: $14.00
Pozdrav z Lipna (Czech Republic)
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps, postmark, and blue Prioritaire label affixed. Admittedly you need to look for the dam, but it’s in there. Minor postal creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 38200010
Price: $4.00
Hubei, Gezhouba Key Water Control (PR China)
Nice card in great condition mailed with two large stamps and full postmark in 2012. Grade: 1

Code: 38200011
Price: $4.00
Grand Coulee Dam (Washington, USA)
Another card that will appear in many topical categories. Mailed in 2012, this has four different stamps and postal barcoding. All 16 of those attractions are identified on the reverse caption. Grade: 1

Code: 38200012
Price: $5.00
Fort Loudon Dam (Tennessee, USA)
Unused linen card. Grade: 1

Code: 38200013
Price: $2.00
Conchas Dam and Reservoir (New Mexico)
Linen card, Curteich-Chicago, mailed with two stamps and postmark in 1952. Grade: 3

Code: 38200014
Price: $1.00
Irrigation Dam, Belle Fourche, Black Hills (South Dakota, USA)
Unused C.T.-American Art card 116391 with all you need to know right there on the front. Grade: 1

Code: 38200015
Price: $1.00
Roosevelt Monument at Grand Coulee Dam (Washington, USA)
Mailed in 1955 with 2-cent stamp and full postmark. The Roosevelt here is Franklin, not Theodore. Grade: 2

Code: 38200017
Price: $1.00
The Three Gorges Dam (PR China)
Issued by the PRC State Postal Bureau, with preprinted postage and three extra stamps, and three full, clear 2012 postmarks. Address label affixed. Grade: 4

Code: 38200018
Price: $4.00
Wachusett Reservoir and Dam, Clinton (Massachusetts, USA)
C.T. American Art card A-56631, mailed during the 1920s with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 38200019
Price: $2.00
Grand Coulee Dam Spillway (Washington, USA)
Tichnor linen card 74190 mailed in 1950 with stamp and full postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 38200020
Price: $2.00
Lake Ozark, Bagnell Dam (Missouri, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 38350-N that tells us something we didn’t know before this: at the time the card was printed, “The Lake of the Ozarks, created by the building of the dam, is one of the world’s largest wholly artificial bodies of water.” Grade: 1

Code: 38200021
Price: $3.00
Storage Dam on Scioto River, Columbus (Ohio, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 2A-H750. Grade: 1

Code: 38200022
Price: $2.00
Boulder Dam, Arizona Spillways and Lake
Unused J.T. Watters card 29067N, somewhat heavily handled and fingermarked on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 38200023
Price: $2.00
Arrow Rock Dam, Boise River (Idaho, USA)
At the time, “one of the tallest dams in the world, 348-1/2 feet high.” Unused E.C. Kropp card 18965. Grade: 2

Code: 38200024
Price: $2.00
Lexington Dam Near Los Gatos (California)
Unused Mike Roberts card C6919. Starting to age. Grade: 2

Code: 38200025
Price: $2.00
Great Kentucky Dam and Lake, Paducah (Kentucky, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 6B-H2297, old and clean but significantly aged. Grade: 2

Code: 38200026
Price: $2.00
Cushman Dam No. 1 (Washington, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P16386, heavily handled over time. Grade: 3

Code: 38200028
Price: $1.00
U.S. Government Dam and Locks No. 7, La Crosse (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 44995. Grade: 2

Code: 38200029
Price: $2.00
U.S. Government Lock and Dam on the Mississippi River
We’re placing this unused Dexter Press card 6199B under “Wisconsin” because (A) similar structures are in Wisconsin, and (B) the postcard was made there. Grade: 1

Code: 38200030
Price: $2.00
John Flannigan Dam, Haysi (Virginia)
We look at the photo on this unused Dexter Press card 19975-C but apart from the tower on the right we are struggling to see the dam. It must be there. The caption says so. Grade: 1

Code: 38200031
Price: $2.00
St. Andrews Locks near Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada)
Mailed in 1936 from Winnipeg with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 38200032
Price: $6.00
Wolf Creek Dam (Kentucky, USA)
In the Lake Cumberland Recreational Area, this dam is 240′ high and more than a mile long. Unused Plastichrome card P19044, quite smudged on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 38200033
Price: $1.00
Highway Crossing Fontana Dam (North Carolina, USA)
On an unused card dated 1956, at the time this was “the highest dam in Eastern America and is one of the largest in the world.” We didn’t know that. Minor smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 38200034
Price: $2.00
Bear Creek Canon, Dam and Lake at Evergreen (Denver Mountain Parks)
Unused card, very slightly abraded edges. Grade: 2

Code: 38200035
Price: $2.00
Table Rock Dam and Lake (Missouri, USA)
Many statistics about this Ozarks area, across the White River, on this aging but unused Curteichcolor card O.287 (ODK-1788). Grade: 1

Code: 38200036
Price: $1.00
The Storage Dam, Columbus (Ohio, USA)
Unused Valentine-Souvenir Co. card 21165, heavily handled and well-loved over the years. Grade: 3

Code: 38200037
Price: $2.00
Kerr Dam Near Poulson, Montana (USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card OC-H159 (502). Grade: 1

Code: 38200038
Price: $2.00
Hoover Dam (USA)
Not for the first time, a Hoover Dam postcard doesn’t say exactly where it is. The true caption is “Lake Mead and Hoover Dam”, and the reference to “the world’s highest dam.” Unused H.S. Crocker card CFS-1409. Grade: 1

Code: 38200039
Price: $1.00
Greetings from Wichita Kansas – Little River Dam
This E.C. Kropp large letter card was mailed in what looks like 1946 (partly obscured postmark; stamp is there), and all of the attractions are identified in the caption on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 38200040
Price: $3.00
Lake Powell, Glen Canyon Dam (Arizona, USA)
Though mailed, the US$1.05 stamp was not cancelled. Postal barcoding on front and back. Grade: 4

Code: 38200041
Price: $1.00
Greetings from Arizona, Hoover Dam
Unused Scenic Art card 8964G, with all ten separate attractions identified in the caption on the back. That was kind of them, and lets us put this card into several categories. Grade: 1

Code: 38200042
Price: $2.00

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