USA State Capitols – Page 2 – Global Postcard Sales

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Nebraska (Lincoln)
Unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 31600138
Price: $1.00
Nebraska (Lincoln)
We can’t quite make out when this card was mailed, but it looks like 1932, with two stamps and almost-readable postmark. Linen Curteich-Chicago card. Grade: 3

Code: 31600144
Price: $3.00
Utah (Salt Lake City)
Unused Eric J. Seaich card 71769 (and ES-6). Grade: 1

Code: 31600145
Price: $2.00
Tennessee (Nashville)
1960’s-vintage Curteichcolor card 2DK-158, unused. Grade: 2

Code: 31600146
Price: $1.00
Indiana, Old State Capitol, Corydon
Unused Curteich-Chicago card OB424-N of a building that served as Indiana’s capitol from 1816-1825. Significant abrasions on the front lower left. Grade: 4

Code: 31600147
Price: $2.00
Iowa (Des Moines) – “In All That Is Good, Iowa Affords the Best”
This is one of Iowa’s iconic old cards, well-referenced. Among the captions on the reverse, this: “Iowa, Her Affections Like The Rivers Of Her Borders, Flow To An Inseparable Union”. Three of these unused linen cards PB-4926 are available, similarly aged. Grades for each: 2

Code: 31600153
Price: $3.00
Iowa (Des Moines)
Nicely preserved B&W card mailed in 1907 with stamp and Des Moines postmark. Some album marks (faint) and various mottling. Grade: 3

Code: 31600154
Price: $6.00
Iowa (Des Moines) – red caption
Unused. Grade: 3

Code: 31600155
Price: $4.00
Texas (Austin)
Five different stamps but also multiple abrasions, sticker, and drawings on the reverse. Grade: 5

Code: 31600163
Price: $0.50
Oregon (Salem)
Unused but aging E.C. Kropp large-letter card 10562-P49, with each of the six sites identified in the reverse caption. Grade: 2

Code: 31600164
Price: $4.00
Greetings from Indiana, “The Hoosier State”
Unused Curteichcolor card 5DK-2003-A. Scenes include Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lakes Webster and Shafer, World’s Largest Steer Monument, Turkey Run and Spring Mill and Brown County State Parks, the state capitol, the Ohio River Bridge, Indianapolis 500, University of Notre Dame … and more! All identified in the caption. Grade: 1

Code: 31600165
Price: $3.00
North Dakota (Bismarck)
Unmailed large letter card with an inked message on the reverse. The caption identifies each of the scenes in DAKOTA. Aged, and heavily handled and loved over the years. Grade: 4

Code: 31600171
Price: $4.00
Iowa (Des Moines)
Thanks to the caption on this unused card, we know it dates from 1949 or later, though unaccountably not where Iowa’s state capitol actually is. Information about William Beardsley is easily Googlable. Grade: 2

Code: 31600173
Price: $2.00
Maine (Augusta)
Unused Curteichcolor card 0C-K248. If you’re looking for classic state capitol postcards, this puts you one closer to all 50. Grade: 1

Code: 31600177
Price: $2.00
Maine (Augusta)
Maine’s state capitol building on a card mailed in 1910 with stamp and postmark, as part of a postcard exchange. Grade: 2

Code: 31600178
Price: $5.00
Missouri (Jefferson City)
Everything you could want on a large-letter postcard by E.C. Kropp (27942N), mailed in 1941 with stamp and postmark. The sights in the letters are all identified in the reverse caption, including the state capitol in Jefferson City (“M”). Grade: 2

Code: 31600179
Price: $5.00
Nevada (Carson City)
If you’re after state capitol postcards, here’s Nevada on an unused Smith-Southwestern card 0168. We went and saw this building. Carson City is not a big city. The Capitol building is charming and not nearly as big as it looks here. Grade: 1

Code: 31600180
Price: $2.00
California (Sacramento)
The caption on the back of this unused Smith Novelty card S-029 gives a surprising amount of detail in a short space. The sculpture is by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, is called “Columbus’ Last Appeal to Queen Isabella,” weighs 40 tons, is made of carrera marble; and that’s just some of it. Grade: 1

Code: 31600186
Price: $1.00
Sacramento, aerial view down Capitol Avenue to State Capitol (California)
Unused Smith Novelty card S-055. Grade: 1

Code: 31600188
Price: $1.00
South Dakota State Capitol and Gardens, Pierre
Unused Curteich-Chicago C.T. American Art card 117214-N. Grade: 1

Code: 31600199K
Price: $2.00
Kansas (Topeka)
It’s 304 feet high. (The Capitol, not the postcard.) Unused (The postcard, not the Capitol.) Grade: 1

Code: 31600201
Price: $2.00
Missouri (Jefferson City)
Unused card with a vast list of official state this-and-thats. Grade: 1

Code: 31600203
Price: $1.00
Missouri (Jefferson City)
The Capitol Building was built between 1912-17, and the unused card much much later than that. Grade: 1

Code: 31600204
Price: $2.00
Missouri (Jefferson City)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31600205
Price: $1.00
Rhode Island (Providence) – State House
Mailed in 1957 with 2-cent stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 31600207
Price: $2.00
Illinois (Springfield)
Unused V.O. Hammon Publishing Co. card 900, with mild and ancient water staining in the lower right corner. Grade: 3

Code: 31600211
Price: $3.00
Vincennes, First Capitol of Indiana Territory
Mailed in 1947, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 31600213
Price: $2.00
Illinois (Springfield)
Unused E.C. Kropp vintage postcard 23925-8 with ten views identified in the caption. Grade: 1

Code: 31600214
Price: $5.00
Missouri (Jefferson City)
Unused, mottled old E.C. Kropp card 4437. Grade: 2

Code: 31600215
Price: $3.00
Georgia (Atlanta)
Unused “local” card 124430, with Georgia’s state capitol and Callaway Gardens on Pine Mountain. Slight aging. Grade: 1

Code: 31600216
Price: $2.00
Massachusetts (Boston)
In the style and even the linen paper stock of an old Large Letter card, but this is newer, with serrated edges, and mailed in 2013 with three stamps and postmark. The Government buildings in question are (B) Old State House, and (O) New State House and Copley Square. Grade: 1

Code: 31600239
Price: $1.00
Alabama (Montgomery)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31600243
Price: $1.00
West Virginia (Charleston)
What an unexpectedly sad message on this older card, stamped for mailing but not postmarked so we don’t know whether the right person ever saw it. Grade: 4

Code: 31600245
Price: $1.00
Wisconsin (Madison, Aerial View looking Northeast)
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone card 5A-H311 (94), also showing Lake Mendota on one side and Lake Monona on the other, and of course the Capitol. Long ago, someone penciled the dates 1936-1939 on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 31600270
Price: $5.00
Colorado (Denver) – The Broncho Buster – Civic Center And State Capitol
“Broncho” is not a typo. Google can tell you about that, but we’ll tell you about the postcard: mailed in 1945 or 1946 with stamp and most of the postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 31600308
Price: $2.00
Wisconsin (Madison), State Capitol from Lake Monona
Unused linen E.C. Kropp card 6A-H196 (1807) with a 1936 date lightly penciled on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 31600315
Price: $4.00
Minnesota (St. Paul)
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago card 7B-H1524, strictly for State Capitol specialists only due to the heavy aging on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 31600318
Price: $0.50
Pennsylvania, Harrisburg State Capitol Senate Chamber
Unused Plastichrome card P62276. Beginning to show its age. Grade: 1

Code: 31600330
Price: $1.00
South Carolina, The Palmetto State (Columbia)
South Carolina postcards became more politically correct shortly after this. Yes, that’s the State Capitol in Columbia. Unused card, mid-1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 31600338
Price: $2.00
Idaho (Boise)
Unmailed E.C. Kropp card 16051, with a small notation inked entirely within the stamp area. Like many of these Large Letter cards, the individual views are identified in the caption on the back: Beauty Bay, Cabinet Gorge, Shoshone Falls, Sun Valley Lodge and Challenger Inn, and Canadian wild geese at Challenger Inn. And, of course, the state capitol. Grade: 3

Code: 31600341
Price: $2.00

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