Waterfalls – Global Postcard Sales

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Akaka Falls (Hilo, Hawaii)
This Nani Li’i card S-162 is–like others in our Hawaii series–from the 1960s and unused. Apparently Akaka Falls was “made famous in song and legend of old Hawaii.” Grade: 1

Code: 35500001
Price: $1.50
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Mirro-Krome Eric J. Seaich card ES-172 from late 1960s, unused, but some smudging on reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 35500002
Price: $3.00
Minnehaha Falls Park (Minneapolis, USA)
Apart from the Falls, this is a statue of Hiawatha. This card went out in 1991, has four stamps (36+1+1+1), and a partly-legible St. Paul postmark. There are various postal markings on front and back as this was the era when the USPS started to be certain no card could be sent unscathed. Grade: 3

Code: 35500003
Price: $2.00
Niagara Falls
Unused Dexter Press card DT-5433-C dates from ~1965 and is in as-new condition. Grade: 1

Code: 35500004
Price: $4.00
Niagara Falls, aerial view
Mid-60s Plastichrome card P68077, never mailed, unmarked, great condition. Grade: 1

Code: 35500005
Price: $5.50
Niagara Falls ice formation
This unused card was published by Acmegraph Co. of Chicago, and though it suffers slightly from small abrasions and stains on the reverse, it’s really nice overall. As well, it is yet another card that should show up often in Google but doesn’t, for some reason, so it must be scarcer. Grade: 3

Code: 35500006
Price: $14.00
Athabasca Falls, Jasper National Park (Canada)

Unmailed card in this Alberta park dates from 1980s, tiny corner crunching on lower right front but apart from that, it’s in very good shape. Grade: 2

Code: 35500007
Price: $3.50
Niagara Falls, Spanish Aerocar over the Whirlpool
To start, we thought we would check Google and we found many different cards with the same caption, and the same picture with different captions. Go figure. It’s an old card, but in the mid-1990s it was mailed from Japan to Malaysia (by an ardent postcard collector) with a Japanese stamp, of course. Grade: 3

Code: 35500008
Price: $5.00
Niagara Falls, Rapids
Once again, several cards use this same caption and the identical photo has minor variants of the same or similar captions. But we can’t give more information that that because the undivided reverse of this unused card, probably from the earliest 1900s, is completely unattributed. Grade: 3

Code: 35500009
Price: $6.00
Niagara Falls, Bobby Leach awful plunge
This would be an extraordinarily relevant addition to any Niagara Falls collection and we’re not quite sure why it doesn’t show up more often in Google–and then only as part of a display. Bobby Leach’s Awful Plunge took place on July 25th, 1911, and the unused sepia card was copyrighted in 1911 by Photo Specialty Co., Fred B. Peck, Com’l Photographer. A sort of diagonal groove–not a crease–on lower left corner. Grade: 2

Code: 35500010
Price: $22.00
Whitewater Falls (North Carolina)
This is what happens when USPS gets frisky with their automation. That white tape stuck on the front enables their machines to read the huge bar code. Could this be one reason why fewer postcards are being mailed? From 2000, with Florence, SC postmark and one 55-cent Justin Morrill stamp, along with large red airmail rubber stamps. Grade: 5

Code: 35500011
Price: $1.00
Tequendama Cataract (Colombia)
Unused Publiphoto card 117, that says this waterfall is in Bogota. Could that be true? Grade: 1

Code: 35500012
Price: $5.00
Saltos de Agua (Venezuela)
Mailed from Malaysia in ~1984, one Malaysian stamp intact but postmark illegible. Card is otherwise in great condition front and back. Grade: 3

Code: 35500013
Price: $3.50
Mill Run, Fallingwater (Pennsylvania)
Fallingwater was designed by Wright in 1936 and is now in the hands of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy–or it was when the card was made. Mailed from California with a postage meter in 1990, and with large USPS air mail rubber stamp. Grade: 3

Code: 35500014
Price: $1.00
The Falls, Wichita Falls (Texas)
The writer of this card, mailed in 1990 from Dallas with two 25-cent stamps, somewhat laconically said “This is about it for sightseeing in Wichita Falls.” We’ve never been there. Grade: 2

Code: 35500015
Price: $2.00

Chongbang Waterfall (Cheju Island, Korea)

Published by Korean Airlines, this card was mailed from Malaysia to USA in 1995 and has two Malaysian stamps with mostly legible postmark. It also has half of an added U.S. P.O. bar code sticker, covering an added airmail sticker, and some minor edge abrasion. The picture itself? Nice. Grade: 4

Code: 35500016

Price: $5.50

Chongbang Waterfall (Cheju Island, Korea)

Kelantan, Malaysia
Waterfalls are abundant in Malaysia but are overdeveloped and trashy as soon as they are “discovered.” We absolutely will not tell you where the best ones are. You may wonder where the waterfall is in this card. Good question. Card mailed in 1988, with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 35500020
Price: $4.00
Kota Tinggi, Malaysia
Three cards in virtually identical condition are available: mailed 1991, stamp, partly legible postmark, clean fronts. Grades: 2

Code: 35500021
Price: $4.00
Kakadu National Park (Australia)
Unmailed card, dating from 1996 or so. Grade: 1

Code: 35500023
Price: $5.00
Jim Jim Falls, Kakadu National Park (Australia)
Two of these 1996 cards from Barker Souvenirs are available. One is unmailed, in as-new condition (Grade: 1, $4) while the other was mailed from Malaysia in 1994 with a commemorative stamp but no legible postmark (Grade: 3, $3). Hate to let them go because my name is Jim, but life is like that. Maybe yours is too, or your friend’s, or your relative’s…hint, hint.

Code: 35500024
Price: $3.00
Murchison Falls (Uganda)
Unused Taws Ltd. card dates from mid-60s though we suppose this view hasn’t changed much. Minor edge abrasions on front; reverse is mildly aged but unmarked. Grade: 2

Code: 35500026
Price: $4.50
Steinsdalsfossen Waterfall (Norway)
This unused Enerett card 2143/166 dates from the early 1950s at the latest. Two perforated edges indicate it had been part of a folio. It has a note in Norwegian on the reverse, with a pencilled English translation beneath. Grade: 4

Code: 35500027
Price: $3.50
Religious (Malaysia)
An Islamic injunction, written in Malay, on this card mailed in Malaysia in 1991. One stamp, heavily but readably postmarked. Grade: 2

Code: 35500028
Price: $2.50
Shoshone Falls (Idaho, USA)
Interesting to compare the view on this card with that of the previous one (10113002) maybe 15 years earlier. This one is unused from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 35500029
Price: $2.00
Niagara Falls, drive and gardens
Photogelatine Engraving card was never mailed, but has travel agent’s rubber stamp on reverse. Front has abrasion on upper left sky area. Dates from early 1950s. Grade: 4

Code: 35500030
Price: $4.00
Frog and waterfall (Japan)
Sorry, not sure where this is but if you read Japanese, you’ll know. Card has a very light blue background, has aged, but is unmailed and otherwise undamaged. Grade: 3

Code: 35500031
Price: $16.00
Inside Atrium Lobby of ANA Hotel, Tokyo
“Sunlight streams through the green leaves and the sound of waterfalls play,” if you can imagine. Two unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 35500032
Price: $2.50
Hyatt Regency Hotel, waterfall (Singapore)
Three unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 35500033
Price: $2.50
Indian deities (3D) with waterfall background
Unused 3D card. The only thing printed on the back is Made in Japan. Though not marked as a postcard, it was intended to be mailed as one. The 3D effect is from the heavy ridged lenticular plastic overlay. Grade: 1

Code: 35500034
Price: $6.00
Niagara Falls, Maid of the Mist at American Falls (Ontario)
Early version of Maid of the Mist (now it has two levels), on an unused card published for the Seagram Tower. Grade: 2

Code: 35500035
Price: $3.00
Ouzel Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park (USA)
An unused, quite heavy and thick, matte-finish Sanborn Souvenir card 885037 (and R-187) with serrated edges. Grade: 2

Code: 35500037
Price: $2.00
Niagara Falls, vivid rainbows (New York)
Unused and unusual contemporary card showing double rainbows. Grade: 1

Code: 35500039
Price: $2.00
Niagara Falls, afternoon rainbow
Unused, contemporary card. However do they “enhance” it like this? Grade: 1

Code: 35500040
Price: $1.50
Horseshoe Falls (New York)
Unused contemporary card. Grade: 1

Code: 35500041
Price: $1.00
Niagara Falls, multiple beams of light
Unused, contemporary card. Grade: 1

Code: 35500042
Price: $1.00
Niagara Falls, night light
Unused, contemporary card. Grade: 1

Code: 35500043
Price: $1.50
Minnehaha Falls in Winter, Minneapolis (Minneapolis)
Such a nice, formal message between two ladies on the reverse of this card, mailed in 1954 with a 2-cent stamp but no identifying postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 35500044
Price: $4.00
Niagara Falls, Maid of the Mist
You take the expensive tour, you get these at the end. Three unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 35500045
Price: $2.00
Mountain River Country Holiday Inn, waterfall
The only attribution to West Virginia is the publisher (Paige Creations) but we Googled, and this is where we think it belongs. Unused card with abrasion smudging all across the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 35500046
Price: $1.00
Niagara Falls, American Falls from below
Old unmailed card from The Harris Litho. Co. Limited, of Toronto. There is an unused USA 1-cent stamp but no message or other handwriting. Grade: 4 (because of the stamp; otherwise, Grade: 1).

Code: 35500047
Price: $4.00

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