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Crater Lake National Park, Wizard Island (Oregon, USA)
Unused, old E.C. Kropp card 32252. Superb condition for the age. Grade: 1
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Abram’s Falls in the Cade’s Cove Section (Tennessee, USA)
Unused Color King card 54107 (GS-206). Grade: 1
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Serie Preservacao da Fauna – Parque Nacional Marinho Dos Abrolhos – Benedito, Anous stolidus (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Official, unused Maximum Card from 1985. The serial number on the reverse is 002538. And if you didn’t know, Anous stolidus is the brown or common noddy, a seabird from the tern family. Minor aging, not enough to downgrade. Grade: 1
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Xingu National Park, Koluene River, Tosseco – Kaiapalo indian with Amazonic Frog (Brazil)
Unused, evenly aged, clean postcard. Grade: 1
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Xingu, Comoiura women performing preliminary dancing (Brazil)
The dancing is for a “festa do Yamurikuma” in this national park. Unused card, heavily but evenly aged. Grade: 2
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Xingu Indigenous Park, Indians of Various Tribes (Brazil)
Though it’s strange enough to see such a multi-tribal group, this postcard has something different on the back. Long ago, someone in Brazil cut out a “personals” ad (in Portuguese) from the newspaper, and pasted it in the message area, along with a handwritten notation in the address area. While this does deface the card, it adds a new dimension. We’ll assign Grade: 4
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Alto Xingu, Comoiura women 01 (Brazil)
Unused, aged card showing these women “performing preliminary dancing for a festa do Yamurikuma” in the national park. Grade: 2-
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Native reserve of Xingu, Suia and Trumai women (Brazil)
Unused, aged card, Portuguese and English captions: “YAMARICUMA ritual dance by ‘suia’and ‘trumai’ women”. Grade: 2-
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Yellowstone National Park, Old Faithful Geyser (Wyoming, USA)
One of Curteich-Chicago’s “Giant Post Card” (6-7/8″ x 9-1/8″), No. 13040, linen, unused. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone National Park, Lower Falls from Below (Wyoming, USA)
One of Curteich-Chicago’s “Giant Post Card” (6-7/8″ x 9-1/8″), No. 37047E, linen, unused. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone National Park, Grand Canyon from Artist Point (Wyoming, USA)
Not to mislead you: this is the Grand Canyon in Yellowstone National Park, not the “other” one in Arizona. One of Curteich-Chicago’s “Giant Post Card” (6-7/8″ x 9-1/8″), No. 28328, linen, unused, and showing Lower Falls. Grade: 1
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Manuel Antonio National Park (Costa Rica)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Official Photographs of Mount Rushmore (set) (South Dakota, USA)
Several cautions for you here, so please note: our scan shows you the somewhat tattered front paper cover of this set. It says there are nine photos. *BUT* the set had been opened long ago, and re-sealed itself, and we cannot and would not guarantee all nine photos are there. We’re certain there are more than one. And we take them at their word that these are “photos” and may not be postcards at all. With all that out of the way, this is definitely old and we like the instruction they provide, that this was produced “to further a correct interpretation of this Memorial”. (How could it be misinterpreted? That the four Presidents were Buchanan, Harding, Tyler, and Fillmore?) We will assign Grade: 2
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Taiwan (set of 12) – Pingtung, Chuanfanshih, Kenting National Park
A genuinely complete, unused set of 12 island-shaped cards representing a variety of views around the country. A separate sheet generously shows what those views are–if your eyes are good, you can make them out, and figure out why we put them into the categories we did. In the original cellowrap. Grade: 1
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Mount Ngaruahoe National Park (New Zealand)
The Wikipedia entry for this volcano is interesting. Here’s a condensed snippet: “In 1974, as part of a promotional campaign for his sponsor, skier Jean-Claude Killy was filmed skiing down the previously unskied eastern slope … The average slope on this side of the volcano is 35 degrees, and Killy was caught on radar skiing more than 100 miles per hour. As he fell on the first run, he did the descent twice. He used helicopters to access the mountain top when the last eruption had been the day before, and an eruption occurred at the end of his final run. Mount Ngauruhoe was used as a stand-in for the fictional Mount Doom in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, achieving worldwide exposure …” Go visit! The postcard was mailed in or about 1976, judging from the dated postage stamp, with airmail sticker and indistinct postmark. A nice card. Grade: 1
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Grand Canyon Lodge, Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona, USA)
Unused older card made for Utah Parks Company. Lower edge is perforated, so this came from a set. Grade: 1
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Zion National Park, Great White Throne (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Minor staining on the back as well. Grade: 2
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Bryce Canyon National Park, The Great Cathedral (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, The Pope (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. And upside down. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, From Sunset Pt. (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, faded, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. And upside down. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Queen Victoria (Utah, USA)
Very old, unused, faded, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Cedar Grove, Kings Canyon National Park, Grizzly Falls (California)
Unused Mike Roberts card C20060, heavily aged. Grade: 2
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Alberta Falls (Colorado, USA)
Unused, mildly aging Mike Roberts postcard C18201. Grade: 2
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Rocky Mt. National Park, Precipice of Longs Peak From Chasm Lake (USA)
Unused old Sanborn card 5645-29-N. Grade: 2
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Old Fort Harrod State Park, Harrodsburg (Kentucky, USA)
Unused Dexter Press postcard 27291-C (SP-FH-9). Grade: 1
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Acadia National Park, The Deep Cut on Cadillac Mountain Road, Bar Harbor (Maine, USA)
Unused American Art Postcard Co. card 759. Aging but clean. Grade: 1
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Nashville, Brown County State Park, Abe Martin Lodge (Indiana, USA)
Unused local card. Grade: 1
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Mammoth Cave National Park, historic entrance (Kentucky, USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card DT-40109-D (NPC-6-D). A name and 1986 date are written at the postage area. Grade: 3
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Alley Spring State Park, Alley Spring and Old Mill (Missouri, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 3DK-1971 (O.376), of this 1870 mill in the Ozarks. Grade: 2
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Castile, Letchworth State Park, Upper Falls and railroad trestle (New York)
Something about this picture is less than flattering, but the card itself is fine: unused Dexter Press 43068-B. Grade: 1
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Dingmans Ferry, Pocono Mountains, George W. Childs State Park, Factory Falls (Pennsylvania, USA)
Yes, all that and more appears in the caption of this unused but aging Dexter Press card 33789-C (8-282). Grade: 2
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Park Highway (Tennessee, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 5B-H296, aging. Grade: 2
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Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Shrine of Democracy (South Dakota, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 30731-B. Grade: 2
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Hopi Point, Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona, USA)
Unused Petley card C9944, getting older but holding its age well. Grade: 1
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Zion National Park, View from the West Rim (Utah, USA)
Unused, aging (and old) postcard. Grade: 2
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Sunrise, Mt. Rainier National Park (Washington, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 5C-K473 (55-16), showing Sunrise (6,400′) and Mt. Rainier (14,410′). So that’s what they mean by “Sunrise”. Grade: 1
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Prairie du Chien, Signal Point, Wyalusing State Park (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P15181. Grade: 1
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Painted Desert
Unused Curteichcolor card 3C-K541 (K-125) of ancient volcanic wastes, highlighting that all this could be seen from Route 66. So technically this is a Route 66 postcard! It’s a scene in the Petrified Forest National Monument. Grade: 1
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Painted Desert (Arizona, USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card RMF-75 near the Petrified Forest National Monument, highlighting that all this could be seen from Route 66. So technically this is a Route 66 postcard! But the card shows its age. Grade: 3
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Petrified Forest National Monument, Petrified Logs (Arizona, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 2C-K109 (K-127). According to the caption, these logs are made of agate. According to Wikipedia, they’re 225 million years old. That might be. Give this card some time, and it will catch up. Grade: 2