Totem poles – Global Postcard Sales

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Ketchikan, Harbour and totem pole (Alaska)
Unused, as-new card. Grade: 1

Code: 38800001
Price: $2.00
Abraham Lincoln totem pole, Ketchikan (Alaska)
Mailed from Juneau in 1975, with two stamps and nearly complete postmark. Serrated edges. Minor postmark smudging on front. Grade: 3

Code: 38800002
Price: $5.00
Totem poles and multiple views, Ketchikan (Alaska)
As-new unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 38800003
Price: $2.50
Vancouver, Stanley Park (Canada)
Larger card of totem poles by Fred Chapman, mailed in 1997 with stamp but mostly obliterated by postmark. Front of card in super condition; reverse has some postmark smudging though. Grade: 3

Code: 38800004
Price: $5.50
Seattle, Totem Pole and Pioneer Square (USA)
Mailed in 1910 with stamp and full postmark, and apparently in an album for many years after that, this card raises the question of what it was that auntie actually had. We’ll never know. Grade: 3

Code: 38800005
Price: $6.00
Strong Man of North Island (British Columbia, Canada)
Legend representing the Haida Tribe of British Columbia, on this unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 38800006
Price: $5.00
Dayak round pole (Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia)
These poles were used to mark graves, but the design and concept is close enough for us to place the card in this category. S.W. Singapore card K5072, mailed in 1982 with Sarawak stamp but no postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 38800007
Price: $4.00
Lost Idols of Sarawak (Malaysia)
Here’s an international card for you: produced by Sarawak Tourism Board (Malaysian Borneo), then mailed to Hong Kong from The Netherlands with two different stamps and Priority label affixed. Just what a postcard should be. Only because it does not come from country of origin, Grade: 3.

Code: 38800008
Price: $5.00
Ketchikan, Totem Poles and Residences of Haida Indians (Alaska)
Unused H.H.T. card 15342, and for those of you into totem pole postcards, this one’s for you. Grade: 3

Code: 38800009
Price: $4.00
Shake’s Grave Totems (Haida Indians) (Wrangell, Alaska)
Mailed in 1940 with stamp and fully legible postmark, we repeat the caption for your information: “These Totems mark the grave of the uncle of the present chief. Titles always pass to the sister’s son.” Now you know. Grade: 3

Code: 38800010
Price: $8.00
Legend of the Totem Pole (Alaska)
Curteichcolor card mailed in Alaska in 1968 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 38800012
Price: $4.00
Totem House, Ketchikan (Alaska)
An “Alaska Joe” unnumbered card of Totem House at Totem Bight, near Ketchikan, Alaska. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38800013
Price: $3.00
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Totem Pole (New Mexico, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 9B-H948 (and 105) of a 42-foot-high stalagmite. The postcard has aged significantly, but is clean. Grade: 3 (We must verify availability)

Code: 38800014
Price: $2.00
Saxman Totem Park, Ketchikan (Alaska)
Mailed in 2012 with four different commemorative stamps, and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 38800015
Price: $5.00
The LI surname origins totem (Taiwan)
Unused 5-1/4″ x 7-5/8″ card, of special interest we suppose if your name is LI or LEE. Grade: 1

Code: 38800016
Price: $5.00
Saxman Totem Park (Ketchikan, Alaska)
Mailed in 2012 with five different stamps, none of them cancelled. Grade: 4

Code: 38800017
Price: $2.00
Oklahoma Indian Totem Pole
Unused, mildly aging Plastichrome card P1436. Grade: 2

Code: 38800018
Price: $4.00
Crested Butte, Totem Pole Park (Colorado, USA)
Unused card dated May, 1997. Shows just a little handling. Grade: 2

Code: 38800019
Price: $3.00
Duncan, Vancouver Island, Orca Totem (Canada)
Unusual horizontal totem pictured on an unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 38800020
Price: $4.00
Totem Pole and Full Moon – poster (Alaska)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 38800021
Price: $2.00
Alaska The Great Land (map)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 38800022
Price: $3.00
Alaska
Unused older Mike Roberts card C7140 of a totem pole in a field of Alaska Fireweed. Grade: 1

Code: 38800023
Price: $4.00
Ketchikan, Totem Bight (Alaska)
Unused Plastichrome card issued by Pacific Northern Airlines, which predictably used the caption as a marketing tool. Grade: 1

Code: 38800024
Price: $3.00
Alaska
Unused Alaska Card A-28, by H.S. Crocker, with minor aging and foxing on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 38800025
Price: $3.00
Ketchikan, Chief Skowl Totem Pole (Alaska)
Unused Mike Roberts card C18579 showing the pole and the tunnel in downtown Ketchikan. Grade: 1

Code: 38800026
Price: $2.00
Haida Pole Fragments, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Unused card from the University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver. Grade: 1

Code: 38800027
Price: $3.00
Northwest Coast Totem Poles (Canada)
Unused card from the University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver. The poles are carved from red cedar. Grade: 1

Code: 38800028
Price: $3.00
Vancouver, Stanley Park Totem Poles (Canada)
If you’re looking for contemporary totem pole postcards, this should do it for you: mailed in 2014 with three stamps, bilingual Air Mail label, and large postmark. Orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 38800029
Price: $2.00
Victoria (BC), Thunder Bird Park, The Indian Totem Poles
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38800030
Price: $4.00
Greetings from Ketchikan, Alaska – Raven Flood Totem
Mailed in 1980 from Juneau, this card has a 10-cent stamp, postmark, and a notation at the bottom reverse telling when it was received. Serrated edges. Grade: 3

Code: 38800032
Price: $2.00
Kicksetti Totem and Sun House, Wrangell (Alaska)
This totem is surmounted with a face representing a mountain. Below is a frog, the emblem of the Kicksetti tribe. Below is the old Rave, talking to the young Raven that created man. The lowest figure is that of the Kilisnoo beaver, whose father belonged to the beaver family and the mother to the frog family. The house has the symbol of the sun. So there. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 38800033
Price: $4.00
Alert Bay, Cormorant Island (BC), Kwakiutl Totem Poles (Canada)
Mailed in 1968, with stamp and full postmark. There’s a dark age stain (?) along part of the lower right reverse edge. Grade: 3

Code: 38800034
Price: $2.00
Kitkatla (BC), Tsimshian Totem Pole (Canada)
Mailed from USA in 1979 with stamp and two different, overlapping postmarks. Some of those on the front, too. Grade: 4

Code: 38800035
Price: $2.00
Alaska Totem Poles
No other caption, on this unused old card. Grade: 2

Code: 38800036
Price: $1.00
Vancouver, Totem Poles in Stanley Park (Canada)
Pre-stamped (8 cents), unused postcard issued by Canada Post Office. Beginning to age. Grade: 1

Code: 38800037
Price: $3.00
I’m having a great time in Alaska
Mailed (we’re not sure when: indistinct postmark) with a 6-cent stamp and some awesomely bad handwriting. The scene though is at Saxman Indian Village near Ketchikan. Grade: 1

Code: 38800038
Price: $2.00
Alaska (Pan American Airlines)
Unused card issued by the airline. We continue to be awed by the number of tourists who wandered fields in their Sunday finest clothes. Grade: 1

Code: 38800039
Price: $3.00
New York Zoological Park, Tlinket Totem Pole
Also spelled Tlinget, a people of the North American northwest, but whose totem pole found its way to New York and is pictured on this unused 1906 official NYZS B&W card No. 1549D. If you do collect totem pole postcards, you might want to consider this one. Grade: 1

Code: 38800040
Price: $8.00
S.S. Alaska, Alaska Steamship Co.
Unused real-photo card. Grade: 1

Code: 38800041
Price: $2.00
Sitka, Lover’s Lane and Mt. Edgecumbe (Alaska)
Real-photo card mailed in 1930, with stamp and nearly all of the postmark. Minor edge abrasion. Grade: 2

Code: 38800042
Price: $4.00

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