National, State, Provincial Parks – Page 8

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Grand Canyon – three connected cards (USA)
This conjoined group of three cards had been part of a larger set. Unused, and each of the end cards has a perforated edge to indicate that there had been more cards before. Grades: 3

Code: 31100298
Price: $1.00
Isle Royale National Park, Rock Harbor Lighthouse (Michigan)
Built in the 1840s and abandoned by the time this postcard was printed. Unused card NPC-121 (S-8197-3) published by National Park Concessions, Inc. Grade: 1

Code: 31100299
Price: $4.00
Isle Royale National Park, Rock of Ages Lighthouse (Michigan)
When this (unused National Park Concessions) postcard NPC-131 (S-40909-1) was printed, the lighthouse in Lake Superior was manned by the U.S. Coast Guard. However, Wikipedia gives us a number of reasons why it was automated in 1978. There should have been a Stephen King movie made there. Grade: 1

Code: 31100300
Price: $4.00
Tawas State Park, Tawas Point Lighthouse (Michigan)
Unused Dexter Press card 20469-C, aging and with serrated edges. Grade: 2

Code: 31100301
Price: $4.00
Presque Isle State Park and Lighthouse, Erie (Pennsylvania)
Unused, aging card. The lighthouse first “flashed its oil burning beacon in 1818”. Grade: 2

Code: 31100302
Price: $3.00
Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner Canyon, Eagle (sic) Nest Rock (Montana, USA)
Unused real-photo B&W card, whose caption is on the reverse. More recent Google entries call this “Eagle’s Nest”. Grade: 1

Code: 31100303
Price: $4.00
Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell (Indiana, USA)
We would like to be in this state park right now. No fooling. Unused “local” card. Grade: 1

Code: 31100304
Price: $1.00
Yosemite National Park, Wawona Tree (California)
Unused Mirro-Krome H.S. Crocker card BSY-10, aging. The tree is so old that the tunnel through it was cut in 1881. Grade: 2

Code: 31100305
Price: $1.00
Kilauea Volcano, Halemaumau Firepit, Hawaii National Park
Unused Nani Li’i card S-71. Grade: 1

Code: 31100306
Price: $2.00
First Berry-Lincoln Store and U.S. Post Office, New Salem State Park, Lincoln’s New Salem
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 7B-H1256. Grade: 1

Code: 31100307
Price: $2.00
Taroko National Park (Taiwan)
This card makes the area look like a ski slope, but not so. Mailed in 2013, with two stamps and postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 31100308
Price: $2.00
MacKerricher State Park, Glass Beach (California)
From trash comes beauty. Card mailed in 2013, with Global Forever stamp and illegible postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 31100309
Price: $3.00
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore
The full caption title reads: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina’s Outer Banks,” and goes on to explain that this is/was the only lighthouse owned by the National Park Service, built in 1870, and at 208′ high, the tallest in the U.S.A. Not certain if all of that is true now, but the caption also points out that “in the foreground are the remains of the second Cape Hatteras lighthouse.” This unused Dexter Press card is dated 1969, aging, and has a small abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 31100310
Price: $4.00
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
In 1944, Kitty typed her long message and mailed this. The stamp and postmark, and substantial aging and creasing, are there. Grade: 4

Code: 31100311
Price: $1.00
Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth (Maine)
Anne sent this card to herself on the first day of issue for the Maine Statehood stamp, with appropriate postmark. Not for the first time, she had trouble with her own address. This card has serrated edges and significant brown fading on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 31100312
Price: $5.00
Lassen Volcanic National Park, road clearing (California)
Unused Selithco card 1798. Grade: 1

Code: 31100313
Price: $1.00
Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona)
A somewhat bleak view on this unused, aging Petley postcard P59707. Grade: 2

Code: 31100314
Price: $0.50
Zion National Park, Checkerboard Mesa (Utah, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C4793, with a crease on the lower left corner and heavy fading on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 31100315
Price: $0.50
Cape Breton Highlands National Park (Canada)
The Cabot Trail, on a Petley card 13097 mailed in 1970, with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 31100316
Price: $1.00
Parque Nacional de Bogota (Colombia)
Unused Dexter Press card 48237, rounded corners. Grade: 1

Code: 31100317
Price: $4.00
Yosemite National Park, California
The sender got away with using a domestic Forever stamp for international postage, along with another sticker of a cat that looks a lot like a stamp, but isn’t. Indistinct postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 31100318
Price: $0.50
America by Rail: Rainier National Park – Northern Pacific North Coast Limited
Reproduction of a poster now in the U.S. Library of Congress, on a 2011 postcard mailed in 2013 with two stamps and postmark. USPS barcoding on both sides also. Grade: 3

Code: 31100319
Price: $1.00
Jasper National Park, Mt. Edith Cavell Tea Room (Canada)
Unused Dexter Press card 67458, rounded corners, beginning to show its age. Grade: 2

Code: 31100320
Price: $2.00
Castle Crags (California)
Unused H.S. Crocker card K-280 of this state park, beginning to age. Grade: 2

Code: 31100321
Price: $1.00
Starved Rock State Park, St. Louis Canyon (Illinois, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 0DK-611, significantly aging. Grade: 2

Code: 31100322
Price: $1.00
Grand Canyon National Park, “Duck-on-the-Rock” (USA)
Mailed in 1967 with stamp and full Grand Canyon postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 31100323
Price: $1.00
Sequoia National Park, General Sherman Tree (California)
Not used, but with a big gray water blotch on the reverse. The front is fine. Grade: 4

Code: 31100324
Price: $0.50
Moro Rock – Sequoia National Park (California)
Unused Colorscope card S-185. Grade: 1

Code: 31100326
Price: $1.00
Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve (California)
Unused card, aging, of a park east of Yosemite. Grade: 2

Code: 31100327
Price: $1.00
Yosemite National Park, Lower Yosemite Fall (California, USA)
In the pantheon of California postcards, not one of the most exciting, but it’s a beautiful location. Unused H.S. Crocker card BSY-44-A, notably aging. Grade: 2

Code: 31100328
Price: $1.00
Yosemite National Park, Ahwahnee Hotel & Royal Arches (California)
Unused Mirro-Krome H.S. Crocker card BSY-75. Grade: 2

Code: 31100329
Price: $1.00
Stephen Foster Museum, White Springs (Florida)
Unused “Color King” card S-5410-3. The museum is now in the Stephen Foster Memorial State Park. Grade: 2

Code: 31100330
Price: $1.00
Letchworth State Park, Portageville (New York)
Too many proper nouns in the caption to include in the header, so fasten your seat belt, here you go: “Inspiration Point, Upper and Middle Falls of Genessee River, Letchworth State Park,” “Grand Canyon of the East.” Unused Mike Roberts card LPNY6 (C2089), starting to age. Grade: 2

Code: 31100331
Price: $1.00
Copper Falls State Park, The Bad River Gorge (Mellen, Wisconsin, USA)
Four of these unused Curteichcolor cards 3C-K1313 are available. Grades: 1

Code: 31100332
Price: $1.00
Grand Teton National Park, Snake River and Mt. Moran (Wyoming, USA)
Not postally used, but an inked notation on the back tells us that Bob, Grace, Geo. and Helen were there on July 22nd, 1958. Grade: 4

Code: 31100333
Price: $0.50
Grand Teton National Park, Mt. Moran and Leigh Lake (Wyoming)
Mailed in 1972, this H.S. Crocker card has stamp and postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 31100334
Price: $1.00
Old Chinese Store, Coloma (California)
There’s more: this is in the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park. Unused Colorscope card S-3228. Grade: 1

Code: 31100335
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Alcatraz, multiple views
Nice, clean contemporary card. Alcatraz is part of the U.S. National Park System. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31100336
Price: $1.00
Waterfalls of Yosemite National Park (USA)
This unused card identifies all four falls: Vernal, Yosemite, Nevada, and Bridalveil, and the drop for each one. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31100337
Price: $4.00
Banff (Alberta), Mount Temple and Paradise Valley (Canada)
This was about as generic an old real-photo card as one could find, but a little search engine work places the location in Banff. Unused, faded old card printed by Gowen Sutton in Vancouver. Grade: 1

Code: 31100338
Price: $3.00

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