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Rocky Mountain National Park, Sprague Lake (USA)
This First Light postcard was mailed internationally in 1995, and has two 23-cent stamps and full Denver postmark. A little corner bumping. Grade: 2
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El Morro National Monument (USA)
Not really sepia, just brown-toned, this 1987 card of the park in New Mexico was mailed in 1995 with a 50-cent stamp and partial postmark. The address is on an attached sticker. Grade: 4
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The Petrified Forest and Painted Desert (folio) (Arizona, USA)
We’ve unfolded the cover to show you front and back of this accordion-style fold-out from the 1940s or 50s, we’re not certain. Heavily handled but intact. Grade: 2
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park (USA)
Card from 1992 was mailed from Billings, MT in 1994 and has the full postmark and a 40-cent stamp. Shows just a little bit of having been in the mail. Grade: 2
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Lassen Volcanic National Park (USA)
Mailed in 1994, and with a full postmark from Mineral, this card would be just great apart from a severely abraded stamp. Otherwise, it provides good views of this lesser-known national park. Grade: 4
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Death Valley National Monument (USA)
In the two million acres of Death Valley, one might expect some sand, and here it is. This is an unmailed card from the 1960s (H.S. Crocker HSC-131) and would be absolutely superb but for a travel agent’s black rubber stamp on the reverse. Grade: 4
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White Pines Forest State Park (Illinois, USA)
This would be a case where you really, really wanted a card from this location, no matter what condition. The front has postmark smudge and the reverse has a full 1954 postmark but stamp was torn off and there is also a travel agent’s rubber stamp marking. Grade: 5
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Hallett Peak (USA)
This Flatiron Postcard #47 was mailed internationally in the 1980s and has a 33-cent stamp, but no postmark. A little bit of edge abrasion and creasing but the photo is nice and sort of makes you want to be there. Grade: 3
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Gunung Mulu National Park (Malaysia)
We had the good fortune to visit this park in the 1980s, just after parts of it opened. What an astonishing adventure that was. At the time, we knew we were someplace remote. Unused. Grade: 1
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Itasca State Park (Minnesota), Mississippi River headwaters
The scene should be timeless but the unused card is from 2008. Grade: 1
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Glacier National Park (Montana)
Unused Associated Lithographers & W.D. O’Neil card 65, maybe 1950s, showing “The Garden Wall and Grinnell Glacier from Lake Josephine in Glacier National Park in the Montana Rockies, served by Great Northern Railway.” That is a lot of Proper Nouns. Grade: 2
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Smoky Mountains, The Chimneys (USA)
Wait long enough and a car will come. Unused Dexter Press card 30207-B from the 1960s. Grade: 1
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Rocky Mtn. Nat. Park, Long’s Peak (Colorado)
Actual caption: Long’s Peak and Lake Mills, Rocky Mountain National Park. Typical view, which we see from our perspective as “no smog.” Sanborn Souvenir card R-180 – 14828-D was mailed from Denver (full postmark) to Hong Kong in 1983 with two 20-cent stamps. The card has serrated edges and begins to show age. Grade: 2
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Rocky Mtn. Nat. Park, Bear Lake (Colorado)
Very minor postmark smudging on front as a result of being mailed in 1986 with a 33-cent airmail stamp. This is Flatiron Postcard Co. card 41, printed in Australia, then to Hong Kong by way of Malaysia. Who says the mountains don’t move? Grade: 2
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Volcanoes National Park (Hawaii)
Unused card from early 2000s, showing Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, and we have a warm spot for it (no pun intended) because it was printed in Hong Kong. Grade: 1
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Hawaii National Park, Kilauea Iki Volcano
Kilauea Iki volcano is in Hawaii National Park and the caption on reverse breathlessly announces that when it came back to life on November 14th, 1959, after 100 years of inactivity, “her fiery lava fountain towered 1900 feet! Five hundred feet higher than the Empire State Building!” Nani Li’i card S-175, unused, and definitely after November 14th, 1959! Grade: 1
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Hawaii Nat. Park, Kilauea Iki volcano eruption
Unused Nani Li’i card S-180 with the same caption as the previous card of Kilauea Iki. We could Google to see if this volcano has erupted since 1959, but we would rather use the time entering more cards. Grade: 1
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Hawaii National Park, Haleakala Crater
Unused Nani Li’i card S-54 tells us this “vast pit in Hawaii National Park on Maui (Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in distance) is 21 miles around the rim.” We’ve not yet walked it to find out. Grade: 1
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Sam Roi Yod National Park (Thailand)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Kakadu National Park (Australia)
Gold stamp overlaid from Kakadu Holiday Village in Kakadu National Park. Unused card rom the 1990s. Grade: 1
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Grand Canyon National Park from Lipan Point (Arizona, USA)
Unused “Jumbo Post Card” D-11065 (J-7), 6″ x 9″, as distributed in Fred Harvey shops. Grade: 1
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Ouzel Falls (Colorado)
An unused, quite heavy and thick, matte-finish Sanborn Souvenir card 885037 (and R-187) with serrated edges. Grade: 2
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Dream Lake Trail
Unused Flatiron postcard D-16989 showing Long’s Peak as viewed from Dream Lake Trail. We wish someone would decide whether Long’s Peak has that apostrophe or not. Grade: 2
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Trail Ridge Road
Unused Dexter Press card 47443-C (and 10-R-116) from Sanborn Souvenir Co., with serrated edges and a bunch of dead trees. Grade: 1
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Grand Canyon National Park, Lookout at Mather Point (Arizona, USA)
Unused “Jumbo Post Card” D-11063 (J-5), 6″ x 9″, as distributed in Fred Harvey shops. Grade: 1
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Illinois Beach State Park (Zion, Illinois)
Mailed in 1966 with four one-cent stamps and most of the postmark. It’s a bleak view but we’ve noted that before. Dexter Press card 99174-B. Abrasions on front. Grade: 4
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Capitol Reef National Monument, Chimney Rock (USA)
Very nice card mailed in 1966 with 4-cent stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Shenandoah National Park, Luray, Skyline Drive (Virginia)
Unused Dexter Press card DT-59535-C, dated 1969, and with serrated edges. Grade: 2
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Grand Canyon, Duck-on-the-Rock (USA)
Card with serrated edges mailed from the Grand Canyon (partial postmark) sometime in what may be the 1980s, with 10-cent stamp. Grade: 2
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Carlsbad Zoological-Botanical State Park
Card has a perforated edge (so was once part of a set), and was mailed in 1973 with 6-cent stamp and full postmark. A little bit of postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (Tennessee, USA)
Mailed from Gatlinburg in 1970, with 6-cent stamp and fully legible postmark. Aging heavily on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Petersburg National Battlefield Park (Virginia)
Unused, contemporary card of this U.S. Civil War location. Grade: 1
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Yosemite National Park, Grizzly Giant (California)
Condensed from Wikipedia, “The Grizzly Giant is a giant sequoia in Mariposa Grove; in 1990 Wendell Flint calculated its volume at 34,005 cubic feet (962.9 m3), making it the 26th-largest living giant sequoia. Grizzly Giant is the oldest sequoia in Mariposa Grove (and) at one time was considered the oldest and largest tree in the world, aged between 2,000 and 3,000 years. In 2019, refined scientific dating methods resulted in a new age estimate for the Grizzly Giant: 2,995 years old (plus or minus 250 years). On July 16, 2022, the Washburn Fire threatened Grizzly Giant and other trees (but) the National Park Service used sprinklers to protect it.” This old, unused postcard’s caption makes an interesting counterpoint to that description. Grade: 1
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Letchworth State Park, Glen Iris Inn (New York)
Unused card from “The Finest Scenic Park in the East.” Grade: 1
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Letchworth State Park (New York)
Unused Dexter Press card 43067-B, serrated edges. Grade: 1
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Watkins Glen State Park (New York)
Mailed in 1983 with 13-cent stamp and nearly full postmark, this card nicely integrates several of our card categories into one. Grade: 1
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White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire
Mailed in 1980 with 10-cent stamp and mostly legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Sabah, national park rest house (Malaysia)
Two cards are available, S.W. Singapore KK7760. The view would seem to be that of the rest house complex at Mt. Kinabalu. The cards were written for mailing, but not stamped. Grades: 4
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Letchworth State Park, Lower Falls, The Flume (New York)
Unused Dexter Press card 67300, with serrated edges. These are the Lower Falls of the Genessee River, 70 feet high. Grade: 1
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National Park view of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah (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).