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Jerome, Haunted Hamburger
We had fun reading online reviews for this place, and might even eat there (now we know what to order and what to miss) if we were anywhere close by. Alas, not so. The card was mailed in 2017 and has USPS barcoding that does not seem to have touched the uncancelled, round, Global Forever stamp. We’ll assign Grade: 2
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Jerome, street view
Mailed in 2017 with a round Global Forever stamp and readable postmark. Postal barcoding at the bottom, and minor postal abrasions on the front. Grade: 3
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Antelope Canyon
Mailed in 2017 with round Global Forever stamp, postmark, and USPS barcoding. Grade: 2
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Horseshoe Bend
Mailed in 2017, though stamp and postmark are there, someone thought it was necessary to draw three lines across the stamp. And USPS wonders why it is losing money. Grade: 4
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Grand Canyon, Mather Point
We don’t endorse it, but you can make a profit on this card if you recycle the uncancelled round Global Forever stamp. Grade: 3
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Flagstaff
Mail a white postcard and you’re going to wind up with some postal marking on the front, as you see here. From 2017, with round Global Forever stamp and full Phoenix postmark. Grade: 2
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Phoenix, Steele Indian School Park
Mailed in 2017, with round Global Forever 2016 stamp, Phoenix postmark, and USPS barcoding. Grade: 2
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Sedona, Cathedral Rock
The front of this 5″ x 7″ card is OK. The reverse, though it still has its round Global Forever stamp and postmark, is a mess of marker pens and scribbling. Can’t imagine what someone was thinking. Grade: 5
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Greetings from Yuma
We were on holiday with our friends K&J, and while in Yuma (but not eating the romaine lettuce–a story having nothing to do with Arizona postcards) we thought we would see what we could find. This card of the saguaro cactus is one result. Unused. Grade: 1
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Arizona Symbols
In answer to their question: one. But everything is revealed in the caption on the back of this unused card. Grade: 1
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Yuma County Courthouse
Unused postcard. Grade: 1
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Yuma, Quartermaster Depot
Part of the military outpost of Fort Yuma in the late 1800s, on this unused card. Grade: 1
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Route 66
Yet another among Route 66 postcards, unused. Grade: 1
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Map
Nice, clear, Arizona map postcard, unused. Caption on the back has a few statistics. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Arizona
Classical large letter postcard design on this unused contemporary card. Grade: 1
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Dos Amigos
Unused card. Grade: 1
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I (heart) Yuma Arizona
Unused. Grade: 1
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It’s a Dry Heat
You want to know the origin of the name “Arizona”? It’s in the caption, maybe. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Arizona, The Grand Canyon State
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Kisses from Arizona
Did you know what “gurning” is? Now, you do. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Arizona Lifestyle
We idly wonder (no pun intended) how much he got paid to pose for that. Unused card. Grade: 1
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$5 million Arizona lakefront home
Unused. Grade: 1
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State Flag
As the caption tells us, “The state flag of Arizona represents the copper star of Arizona rising from a blue field in the face of a setting sun”. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Arizona Bikers
We were there but did not see bikers like these. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Family of Gila Monsters on a Stump
Unused but extremely heavily aged Curteich-Chicago “C.T. Art-Colortone” card 4B-H1226 (D-83) with a small tear on one corner. The caption says the gila monster is “ordinarily slow and unstable in its movements”. Yet it survives, where others don’t. Grade: 4
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Monument Valley (Arizona-Utah)
Unused card whose caption places Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border. Grade: 1
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The Grand Canyon of Arizona
Unused, old Curteich-Chicago (Fred Harvey) linen card 7A-H572 (G.C.-11) whose caption relates that “The Indians … gaze with admiration and deep contentment upon this vast indescribable expanse …” Grade: 2
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Gray Mountain Trading Post
Authentic Indian Handiwork on this Dexter Press card 54918 mailed from the Grand Canyon in 1958 with 2-cent stamp, full postmark. Grade: 1
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Howdy from Phoenix
Unused, slightly aging Mike Roberts card B10586, showing Camelback Mountain, the Arizona Country Club Golf Course, downtown Phoenix, Encanto Park, and so on. Grade: 1
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Tempe, Wigwam Lodge
More contemporary card of a 1960s view, mailed in 2021 with Global Forever stamp, postmark, and both orange and black postal barcoding. The caption tells us this hotel was built in 1945, started to be converted, then partly demolished in 1971 and finally gone in 1983, for Arizona State University use. One cannot help but wonder if ASU debated keeping these as part of a Native American Studies unit, but clearly that didn’t happen. Grade: 2
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Sedona, Devil’s Tea Pot
Unused H.S. Crocker card RMF-17, gently aging. Grade: 2
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Grand Canyon National Park, Hopi Point
Unused Petley card C9944, getting older but holding its age very well. Grade: 1
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Grand Canyon, Winter View from the South Rim
Unused “local” card, with a minor smudge on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Apache Indians
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago card 4A-H920 (D-18) with a florid caption that might not make it through first editing these days. Grade: 1
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Phoenix, Hole in the Rock
A reproduction photo on a contemporary card, mailed in 2022 with a round Global Forever stamp and clear postmark. Minor postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2
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Phoenix, Looking West on Washington Street
The card’s caption dates itself when it says Phoenix has a population of 350,000 but we also get help from the clear 1961 postmark. Three-cent stamp is also there. Grade: 1
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Mesa, Maricopa Inn
As we always do with hotel postcards, we went to search the property’s current status. Maricopa Inn may still be there, even under another name, or not, but Google was less than helpful this time. Plenty of postcards around, but our price is lower than most. Unused vintage linen Colourpicture card K1558, aged appropriately. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Arizona
Classic Large Letter design on a contemporary, unused card. Grade: 1
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Arizona Jackass
The ultimate back-handed compliment. To be fair, the reverse caption on this unused card also calls them burros. Grade: 1
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Arizona Sunset
Unused card. Grade: 1