Here’s a charming description from Wikipedia:  “Keensburg was named for Les Keene, an early settler. Its first wedding occurred in 1904. In 1906, the townspeople built the railway station that was later demolished in 1963. In 1912, Keenesburg’s first school opened, which helped cease the mild overflow of Prospect 1-12 (1903-1997, abandoned currently). In 1919, the bar building downtown was built along with several other buildings completed later on in the 1920s… In 1927, they built Keensburg High School (Later Keenesburg Elementary, “home of the Coyotes”). In the 1930s and 1940s, some people moved in, adding more houses… In the early 1970s, Keenesburg was still populated but not as much as before. In the modern days, it has sized well since 1904.”  (Sometimes we just like to toss in factoids like this.)  Unused old card A162.  Grade: 1

Unused Curteichcolor card 9CK2986 with a nicely eclectic caption.  Grade: 2

Unused L.L. Cook card 40879 (391-R) dated 1959.  Aging somewhat.  Grade: 1

Unused generic card captioned “Peaceful Retreat”.  We sometimes wonder, but couldn’t verify, whether there’s a scene like this near Coopersville.  Grade: 2

Mailed in 1924, with stamp and full Cleveland postmark.  Grade: 2

Two of these unused “local” cards B193 are available.  One has a crease in the upper left corner (Grade: 3, $0.50) and the other is better (Grade: 1, $1).

Unused, aging.  Grade: 3

Iconic, unused, official, slightly aging Disneyland postcard A-2 likely from the 1960s.  Main Street, U.S.A.!  Grade: 1

Unused Arba card 96.  Grade: 1

Unused, E.C. Kropp Large Letter card 2424, with the contents of all those letters neatly identified:  J – Juarez Monument; U – International Bridge; A – Bull Fight, Grand Parade; R – Public Market; E – Mexican Burro; and Z – Carcel ‘Jail’.  Grade: 1

Unused Dexter Press card 5S-30040-B, aging but clean.  Grade: 1

Unused card.  If you’re from Easton, would you let us know if there’s any scene like this anywhere nearby?  Grade: 1

South Carolina postcards became more politically correct shortly after this.  Unused card, mid-1960s.  Grade: 1

Mailed in the USA (not Mexico!) in 1976 with a US stamp and two different postmarks.  Back in the day when day-trips to TJ were a common and pleasant diversion for Southern Californians, it was easy enough to find the postcards but nearly impossible to get them mailed from there.  There were more pressing tasks than finding a stamp.  Grade: 4

Unmailed E.C. Kropp card 16051, with a small notation inked entirely within the stamp area.  Like many of these Large Letter cards, the individual views are identified in the caption on the back:  Beauty Bay, Cabinet Gorge, Shoshone Falls, Sun Valley Lodge and Challenger Inn, and Canadian wild geese at Challenger Inn.  Grade: 3

Unused “local” card 32156, with some smudges on the reverse.  Grade: 3

Unused card, older and beginning to show its age.  Grade: 2

Captions on the reverse, from an era spanning “South West Africa” and “Namibia”, identify Bushman, Ovambo, and Herero groups.  The used card itself is in poor condition, with a vertical fold, and the stamp is missing.  A small bit of unreadable postmark remains.  Grade: 5 

Just for fun–and for the search engines–we will tell you what the unused 2002 card tells us:  the scientific or local names of these plants:  Licuala Grandis H. Wendl, Livistona Rutundifolia, and Anahaw.  Now, Licuala grandis is the Ruffled Fan Palm, Vanuatu Fan Palm or Palas Palm, a species of palm tree in the Arecaceae family, and native to Vanuatu.  Livistona rutundifolia is also known as the Table Palm, Footstool Palm, and Fan Palm, and is the same as Anahaw.  Confused?  Don’t be.  We just extract this kind of information from time to time, and then move on.  Minor edge bumping.  Grade: 2 

Unused card dated 2003.  Grade: 1