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Ketchikan, Abraham Lincoln totem pole
Mailed from Juneau in 1975, with two stamps and nearly complete postmark. Serrated edges. Minor postmark smudging on front. Grade: 3
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Anchorage, skyline at twilight
Card with serrated edges was mailed in Minnesota in 1983 and has a readable postmark and heavily inked stamp. It shows the Chugach mountain range and Cook Inlet. Dexter Press card DT-53796-D, printed in 1978. Grade: 2
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Juneau, sunset
Card mailed from Juneau in 1995, with legible postmark, but stamp is slightly torn. Red Air Mail rubber stamp on reverse. Grade: 3
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Juneau, Mendenhall Glacier
This Mel Anderson card was mailed in 1995. Full postmark and stamp, also a postal service airmail sticker affixed. Grade: 2
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Sawyer Glacier, Tracy Arm
Card was printed in 1992 and mailed internationally from Ketchikan in 1995. Postmark is full and stamp is intact. Grade: 2
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Midnight sun
Dexter Press card DR-37722-D, mailed internationally in 1979 with two stamps and partial postmark. Serrated edges. Grade: 2
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Portage Glacier
Card DT-28026-D of Turnagain Arm in Prince William Sound was mailed from Minnesota in 1983. It has four stamps and legible postmark, serrated edges, gently aging reverse, and a bit of red postal ink smudge on the front. But how long will that snow and ice be there? Grade: 3
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Colombia Glacier, M/S Sagafjord
Card issued by Norwegian American cruises and mailed from Juneau in 1982. Two stamps, but no legible postmark. Grade: 2
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Ketchikan, totem poles and multiple views
As-new unused card. Grade: 1
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Ketchikan, Creek Street
We learn from the caption on this as-new, unused card that Creek Street was once famous as a red light district. Grade: 1
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Ketchikan, harbour and totem pole
Unused, as-new card. Grade: 1
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M/V Glacier Bay Explorer
A nice card mailed from Juneau in 1984 with 20-cent stamp and full postmark. We are wondering if the snow is still there now. Grade: 1
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Sea Lions
Actually it’s a closeup of Stellar Sea Lions at Cape Chiniak, Kodiak Island. The card is aged, battered, and torn a bit on the bottom edge. It was mailed in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1967 with two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 4
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Skagway, Steam Engine 73 to White Pass Summit
Mailed in 2011 with Portland, OR postmark (readable) and two different stamps. Grade: 2
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International Dateline, Little and Big Diomede Islands
Unmailed Print House card, old and bleak. But how many of these are you going to find?Grade: 3
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Mountain Sheep Family in the Alaska Mountains
Unused Mike Roberts card C5173. Grade: 2
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Barrow, Northernmost Post Office
Zazzle-produced card mailed from California in 2011 with three different commemoratives. Tape over part of the address area. Grade: 4
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Ketchikan, Totem Poles and Residences of Haida Indians
Unused H.H.T. card 15342, and for those of you into totem pole postcards, this one’s for you. Grade: 3
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Wrangell, Shake’s Grave Totems
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
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Along the White Pass
Unused card of this service that began in 1900. Grade: 1
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Ketchikan, Totem House
An “Alaska Joe” unnumbered card of Totem House at Totem Bight, near Ketchikan, Alaska. Unused. Grade: 1
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Cold Bay, Flight Service and Frosty Mountain
From this very remote location in the Aleutian Islands, an unused card. Grade: 2
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Matanuska Cabbage
Direct from the Matanuska Valley, a 40-pound cabbage and one unused postcard. Grade: 1
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Skagway, Richter’s Jewelry & Curios
It’s still there! This card was mailed in 1984 from Skagway, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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McKinley Park Hotel
Unused H.S. Crocker card, aging. Grade: 2
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Tok
Let the caption on this unused Curteichcolor card 5DK-1997 describe it: “Port of entry for all highway traffic into the largest state in the Union.” Grade: 1
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Ketchikan, Saxman Totem Park
Mailed in 2012 with four different commemorative stamps, and postmark. Grade: 1
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Saxman Totem Park
Mailed in 2012 with five different stamps, none of them cancelled. Grade: 4
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Mt. McKinley
Captioned “Denali Mtn & Ponds” on the reverse, and mailed in 2012 with three different stamps and readable postmark. Grade: 1
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Anchorage Air Tours
Unused, contemporary card of a vintage sign. Grade: 1
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Palmer, Reindeer Farm
How many reindeer does Santa need, anyway? When we see “Reindeer Farm” our thoughts go off in the wrong direction. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Portage Glacier
The world being what it is now, what will this view look like in 30 years? Unused card. Grade: 1
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Northern Lights and Cessna floatplane
Unused card. We tried every resource to research the aircraft serial number, without success. Grade: 1
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Anchorage, Alaska Aviation Museum, Flying ain’t for sissies
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Iditarod Trail, vintage sign
The card is contemporary, and unused. It’s the sign that’s vintage. Or so the card says. Grade: 1
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Alaskan King Salmon
Unused card of a poster of a vintage sign. Grade: 1
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Portage Glacier
Mailed with a round “Global Forever 2013” stamp and clear Anchorage postmark. Faint orange postal barcoding on the front, and creasing along lower left corner. Grade: 3
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Igloo
Mailed from Anchorage with round “Global Forever” stamp and clear postmark in 2013. USPS barcoding. Grade: 1
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Only in Alaska!
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Alaskan Moose
It has come to this in the United States, that the printed caption on this unused card has to point out this is a “Composite close-up view of a moose crossing the Seward Highway.” Why, we thought all American wildlife was this size. Grade: 1