National, State, Provincial Parks – Global Postcard Sales

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Banff National Park, Alberta (Canada)
This card of Lake Louise was mailed from Malaysia, not from Canada, in 1986, with Malaysian stamp and postmark. Front is in excellent shape; reverse has aged a bit. Grade: 3

Code: 31100001
Price: $4.50
Yoho Nat. Park, Mt. Burgess, Canada
This card was mailed in Malaysia in 1986. The stamp is there, and postmark is legible. Apart from normal aging, card is otherwise in OK condition. Grade: 3

Code: 31100002
Price: $3.50
Athabasca Falls, Jasper Nat. Park, Canada
Apart from minor corner crunch on lower right front, card is in very good condition. Never mailed, unmarked. Grade: 3

Code: 31100003
Price: $3.50
Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefield, Jasper Nat. Park, Canada
Mailed from Lake Louise in 1984, two stamps, and postmark partly legible. Minor corner creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 31100005
Price: $5.00
Athabasca Glacier, Jasper Nat. Park, Canada
Card was mailed in Malaysia (not Canada!) in 1986. Stamp and postmark are intact. Front has minor abrasions; reverse is aged but otherwise undamaged. Grade: 2

Code: 31100006
Price: $4.50
Peyto Lake, Banff Nat. Park, Canada
Card was mailed in Malaysia in 1986. Pretty much everything about the card is “average.” Stamp is intact and postmark mostly readable. Grade: 3

Code: 31100007
Price: $3.50
Waterton Lakes Nat. Park, Canada
Photo is timeless but card is probably from 50s or 60s. Never mailed, unmarked, minor edge abrasions. Grade: 3

Code: 31100008
Price: $3.50
Tsitsikamma Nat. Park, South Africa
Card mailed in 2002, with two nice stamps and postmark mostly legible. Address is on an extra sticker. Very minor creasing of upper left front. Grade: 2

Code: 31100009
Price: $5.00
Taman Negara (Malaysia)
The Tahan River, 130 million years old, and not destroyed by logging yet. Oversized card (4.5″ x 6.5″) mailed in 1995 with some edge and corner creasing, and one small corner of stamp is missing. Grade: 3

Code: 31100010
Price: $4.00
Mesa Verde Nat. Park (Colorado)
Unused, gently aging card from 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 31100011
Price: $4.00
Taman Negara (Malaysia)
Unused card published by Chan Chew in 1983 of this remote Malaysian national park. Mild aging on reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 31100012
Price: $5.50
Grand Canyon, Mather Point (Arizona)
A Fred Harvey card (DT-79557-C) dating from 1971 but mailed in 1975 with two stamps and perfect postmark. Serrated edges, a very minor stain in message area. Also minor crease (not disfiguring) in upper left front. Grade: 2

Code: 31100013
Price: $6.00
Navajo family, Monument Valley (Arizona)
Dexter Press unused card 29690-B, or #3821 depending on which number you believe. Dates from 1960s, rounded corners, as-new apart from gentle aging. Grade: 1

Code: 31100014
Price: $6.00
Parcul Național Munții Rodnei (Romania)
Because everything on both sides of this unused card is only in Romanian, and because it’s quite a “busy” card, we will just venture that this is the national park (Parcul Național Munții Rodnei) and based on the identifying captions on the reverse, the largest view is a cave (Pesterea Izvorul Albastru al Izei, or Iza Blue Spring Cave) inside the park. You can let us know if we’re wrong. But overall this is a superb postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 31100015
Price: $5.00
Saguaro National Park (Arizona, USA)
Unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 31100016
Price: $1.00
Rocky Mtn. Nat. Park, Longs Peak (Colorado, USA)
Written for mailing in 1976, but never sent. Serrated edges. Front is good; reverse is heavily smudged as if this card had stuck to the card below it. Grade: 4

Code: 31100017
Price: $2.00
Tongariro National Park (New Zealand)
Mailed some decades ago, this postcard has its stamp, and bilingual airmail sticker, and an indistinct postmark — alongside a thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 31100018T
Price: $1.00
Turkey Run State Park, Indiana (USA)
Two of these unused Curteichcolor (9CK2579) cards are available. They date from the 1960s and apart from very gentle aging on reverse, are in as-new condition. Grades: 1

Code: 31100019
Price: $4.50
Yellowstone Nat. Park, Morning Glory Pool (USA)
Dexter Press card from the 1960s, unused, slight browning on reverse (but age-appropriate), index #4075 or 97907, whichever you like or need. Rounded corners. Grade: 1

Code: 31100020
Price: $3.00
Ise-Shima National Park, Hand Washing Place of River Isuzu (Japan)
Old and unused B&W card, bilingual Japanese/English on the front and Japanese on the reverse. Ise-Shima National Park feels like a living museum. Locals are proud of their unusual fishing methods, such as the ama divers, who help manage and preserve seaweed beds and other biological resources by observing strict rules relating to fishing methods and catch sizes. Just not in the river. Grade: 1

Code: 31100021T
Price: $4.00
Ise-Shima National Park, Great Shrine (Nai-gu) (Japan)
Unused old B&W postcard. Bilingual captions, Japanese/English. Grade: 1

Code: 31100023T
Price: $4.00
Medicine Rocks State Park (Montana, USA)
From roughly 1970, this unmailed card (Dexter Press, ref. no. DT-35309-B) is slowly aging on reverse but as-new on front. Grade: 1

Code: 31100024
Price: $3.50
Yellowstone Nat. Park, Old Faithful (USA)
Two of these cards are available, and we freely admit that postcards of Old Faithful are not in short supply. Even so, here we go: one was mailed in 1971, has 6-cent stamp and Cody postmark intact (Grade: 1, $3). The other was never used and is as-new (Grade: 1, $3).

Code: 31100025
Price: $3.00
Yellowstone National Park, Old Faithful (USA)
Skirts are a bit shorter now? This card, from 1960s, is unused and could well still be on sale at the site. Not much need to take new photos! Grade: 1

Code: 31100026
Price: $2.50
Yellowstone Nat. Park, Old Faithful (USA)
Imagine, a few years ago, working in a photo developing kiosk near Old Faithful, and seeing the same picture thousands of times each day. We can save you that problem but that’s how we feel after entering only three cards of the geyser. Card from 1960s, essentially as-new apart from a tiny bit of aging on reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 31100027
Price: $2.50
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (USA)
Don’t confuse this with the “other” Grand Canyon. Mirro-Krome card from late 1960s, unused, index ES-172. Some smudging on reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 31100028
Price: $3.00
Theodore Roosevelt Nat. Park (North Dakota, USA)
From 1970s, this unused Curteichcolor card (8DK-170) showing a fire that started in 1972. Maybe let us know if it’s still burning. Grade: 1

Code: 31100029
Price: $3.00
Ft. Lincoln State Park (North Dakota, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 9DK-614 from 1970s. Aging slowly on reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 31100030
Price: $3.00
Ft. Lincoln State Park, earth lodges (USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 9DK-613 from the 1970s. Probably hasn’t changed a lot since then, but we haven’t been there lately, either. Grade: 1

Code: 31100031
Price: $3.00
Wind Cave Nat. Park (South Dakota, USA)
Plastichrome card P77593, bought in 1970 and never used. Reverse is aging enough to downgrade by one level, but apart from that the card is in fine shape. Grade: 2

Code: 31100032
Price: $1.00
Mt. Rushmore Nat. Memorial (USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card from 1970 (C2754), aging a bit but otherwise in great condition. Grade: 1

Code: 31100033
Price: $3.50
Mt. Rushmore Nat. Memorial, night (USA)
Two Mike Roberts cards (C14326) from the 1960s are available. One is unused and shows a little corner abrasion (Grade: 2, $2). The other was mailed in 1971 with stamp and full postmark (Grade: 1, $3).

Code: 31100034
Price: $2.00
Ise-Shima National Park, the Couple Rocks of Futami-ga-ura (Japan)
Meoto Iwa (夫婦岩), or Married Couple Rocks, are a kind of rock formation seen as religiously significant in Shinto, representing the union of the creator kami, Izanagi, and Izanami. The rocks, therefore, celebrate the union in marriage of man and woman. The most famous pair is at Futami Okitama Shrine in Futami-ura, joined by a shimenawa (a heavy rope of rice straw). The shimenawa, composed of five separate strands, each weighing 40 kg, must be replaced several times a year in a special ceremony. The larger rock, said to be male, has a small torii at its peak. At dawn during the summer, the sun appears to rise between the two rocks. Mount Fuji is visible in the distance. At low tide, the rocks are not separated by water. We tell you all this because this scene is especially popular on older postcards like this ancient B&W unused example. Grade: 1

Code: 31100035T
Price: $5.00
Wind Cave National Park (South Dakota, USA)
Dexter Press card 53028-B from the late 1960s, unused but with a small stain on reverse. One would hope this is a timeless view of this part of the Black Hills–but time will tell. Won’t it? Grade: 3

Code: 31100036
Price: $2.50
Capitol Reef Nat. Monument (Utah, USA)
Unless the barn burns down, this view shouldn’t change much. Card dates from 1960s, issued by Capitol Reef Natural History Association. Unused, very minor smudge on reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 31100037
Price: $3.00
Bryce Canyon Nat. Park (Utah, USA)
Card mailed in 1976, has stamp and partial postmark but also unfortunately severe abrasions on front. Grade: 5

Code: 31100038
Price: $1.50
Ise-Shima National Park, Toyouke Great Shrine, (Gegu) Sacred Garden (Japan)
Unused old B&W card with bilingual captions. Grade: 1

Code: 31100039T
Price: $4.00
Grand Teton Nat. Park (USA)
Unused card from 1960s, though of course it could have been from 1560s. What will global warming do to this scene in the future? Grade: 1

Code: 31100040
Price: $2.50
Kakadu Escarpment (Australia)
A brilliant, as-new unused card of an astonishing park. This place, you need to see it to believe it. Grade: 1

Code: 31100041
Price: $5.00
Grand Canyon National Park (folio)
A miniature (3″ x 4-1/4″) plastic bound album of ten cards meant to be sent altogether as a souvenir. Dates from early 1960s, published for Fred Harvey, and in superb condition. Grade: 1

Code: 31100042
Price: $16.00

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