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Mt. Princeton (Colorado, USA)
Unused card, serrated edges. Front is perfect and at first glance so is the reverse, but look closer and see the card had been taped to something. Almost invisible, but the abrasions are there. Grade: 3
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Mount Elbert (Colorado, USA)
Unused card, serrated edges. Front is fine, but the card had been taped to something and the resulting abrasions appear on the reverse. Grade: 4
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White Mountains, New Hampshire (folder)
Souvenir fold-out collection of photos, mailed with a one-cent stamp but the postmark is not legible. This item is intact but heavily abraded. Grade: 3
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Alphutte im Berner Oberland … (Switzerland)
The card with its mountains (Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau) is from Switzerland but it was posted from England in 1958 with stamp and Leicester postmark. Grade: 4
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Lone Eagle Peak (Colorado)
Absolutely as-new unused Dexter Press card 89426, with rounded corners. Did you know that Lone Eagle Peak is also called Lindbergh Peak? Neither did we. Grade: 1
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Pikes Peak (Colorado)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Lookout Mountain (Colorado)
Cards like this are very nice, though as someone once said, “The mountains don’t move.” Unused card. Grade: 1
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Mount Moran (Wyoming, USA)
Card with serrated edges was mailed from Canada (not Wyoming) in the 1970s. Grade: 4
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Old Man of the Mountains (New Hampshire, USA)
Sad but inevitable story. You can do a search for that. Unused card, with serrated edges, aging. Grade: 2
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Mt. Kinabalu, Low’s Peak summit (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo)
S.W. Singapore card KK6844 shows the 13,455′ summit. Mailed in 1990, the card has a Sabah stamp and faint postmark. Grade: 2
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Mt. Kinabalu, South Peak (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo)
Unmailed S.W. Singapore card KK6845 was fully written on the reverse but may have been sent in an envelope instead. This peak reaches 12,902′. Grade: 4
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Chimney Rock (Colorado, USA)
Petley card SP-61 (all we can see) with serrated edges, mailed in 1976 with full Mesa Verde National Park postcard on 9-cent stamp. Minor corner creasing. Grade: 2
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Mt. Osceola (New Hampshire, USA)
Mailed in 1980 with 10-cent stamp and mostly legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Mt. Kinabalu, Low’s Peak summit (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo)
Though these cards of Mt. Kinabalu’s various peaks all start to look the same, they’re not. This is S.W. Singapore card KK6846, and three are available. All were mailed, each with stamp. Two have readable postmarks (Grades: 2, $3.50) and one has an illegible postmark together with orange bar coding (Grade: 3, $3).
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Mt. Kinabalu, Sayat Sayat (Sabah, Malaysia)
S.W. Singapore card KK6851 shows this camp at 12,500′, with Donkey’s Ears in the background. Card was mailed in 1991, with stamp and illegible postmark. Grade: 3
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Mt. Kinabalu
The views look the same and the caption writers struggle to describe them differently. This S.W. Singapore card KK6852 just says “Mt. Kinabalu, over 12,000 ft.” Well, that’s true. Mailed in 1991, with Sabah stamp and partial postmark, as well as orange postal bar coding. Grade: 2
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Mt. Kinabalu, Low’s Peak summit (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo)
In this bleak view of the Low’s Peak summit (13,455′), two S.W. Singapore cards KK6853 are available. One has two Sabah stamps, mostly legible postmark, and orange postal bar coding (Grade: 1, $4) while the other was stamped and mailed but without any postmark so we must downgrade the card to Grade: 4 ($2).
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Superstition Mountain (Arizona)
Serrated edges, Petley card 44629-C mailed in the 1970s with a 10-cent stamp. Very heavy postmark transfer on the front, as you can see. Grade: 5
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Mt. Rushmore (South Dakota, USA)
The classic holiday card, mailed from Lead in 1957 with postmark and 2-cent stamp. A bit of postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Chateau de Chillon et Dents du Midi (Switzerland)
Real-photo postcard mailed from Leicester, England (not Switzerland) in what looks like 1958 — stamp and most of the postmark are there. Grade: 4
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Distant view of Mt. Kinabalu (Malaysia)
Two S.W. Singapore cards KK8146 are here. One was mailed in 1991, Sabah stamp, very faint postmark, orange postal bar coding, and lots of minor creasing. The other was mailed in 1990 with Sabah stamp, slightly better postmark, and corner creasing. Both would be Grades: 3 ($2.50).
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Vajolet Peaks (Italy)
Unused card but with thumbtack holes. Grade: 5
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Mt. Sneffels, Colorado (USA)
Unused Petley card P309285 with a great variety of views: train, Four Corners, Wolf Creek Pass, Mt. Sneffels, Purgatory ski area, and others. Serrated edges. Grade: 1
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Pocono Mountains (Pennsylvania)
Card mailed in 1983 with a 20-cent stamp. Front has some postmark smudging and the reverse is heavily stained (spilled coffee, maybe?) though stamp and postmark are undamaged. Grade: 4
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Canadian Rockies
The scenes in this unused card are all from Banff National Park. The card has corner abrasions, and a stain on one of those. Grade: 3
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San Bernardino Mountain Range (California)
Card was mailed in what looks like 1979, with a 15-cent stamp and most of the postmark. And it proves that yes, there is snow near Los Angeles. Significant abrasions on the front. Grade: 4
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Mount Robson and Berg Lake (Alberta, Canada)
Unused card with top and bottom edges perforated, so it has been part of a larger link. Grade: 1
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Mt. Rainier and Tipsoo Lake (Washington, USA)
Card mailed in 1984 with full Seattle postmark, a 20-cent Preserving Wetlands commemorative, and the address on an affixed label. Grade: 3
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Pikes Peak, Colorado (folio)
Common in the 1950s-60s, these little (2.9″ x 4.2″) folios of ten color photos sometimes had a place for the address on the back cover and sometimes didn’t, which is the case here. The cover says there are ten color pictures, and if you count the cover, then yes, there are ten. What that means is: we’re not sure if one is missing or not. For that reason only, we call it: Grade: 2
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Mount Sopris (Colorado, USA)
This card survived mailing in 1982, with full postmark and 13-cent stamp, virtually unscathed. It got lucky. So can you. Grade: 1
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Peaks of Otter (Virginia, USA)
Unused card showing the 4000′ twin peaks on the Blue Ridge Parkway overlooking Bedford. Bucolic. Grade: 1
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Superstition Mountain (Arizona)
Card mailed in 2010 with two stamps (including one “First-Class Forever”) and the full postmark. Part of the address area is abraded, and there’s normal postal battering. Grade: 3
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Mount Rundle and Banff (Canada)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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White Mountains (New Hampshire, USA)
Photo of Mount Lafayette/Gale River/White Mountains by Chuck Theodore of Rivendell Art Photography, and mailed in in 1997 with 50-cent stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Mitre Peak, Milford Sound (New Zealand)
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-5/8″ card issued by realjourneys of New Zealand. Grade: 1
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Mount Stenhouse, Lamma Island (Hong Kong)
Unused card showing a less-accessible part of one of Hong Kong’s most user-friendly outer islands. Grade: 1
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Luzern und die Alpen (Switzerland)
With all the peaks identified, and this fine overview of the city, this is about as iconic a Swiss postcard as you’ll find — with the bonus of having its stamp and 1952 postmark. It helps too that the writer was enjoying perfect weather. Grade: 1
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Baiyun Mountain, Guangzhou (PRC) (in folio)
This photo shows only the back cover of this unwrapped and unused folio, of which two are available. Ten different cards (you see them here, including the mountain) are connected by a perforated edge inside. Each card has bilingual Chinese and English captions. Grades: 1
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Pirineu Catala (France)
Mailed in 2010 with three stamps, readable postmark, and orange postal barcoding on bottom reverse. Grade: 2
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Rigi 1500-1797m (Switzerland)
A card with two stamps and nearly full postmark, along with normal postal bumping on the edges. Grade: 2