California – Page 13 – Global Postcard Sales

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San Diego, Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10105518
Price: $1.00
Greetings from Encinitas
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10105519
Price: $1.00
Hello from Carlsbad
Flowers everywhere in that small town. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10105521
Price: $1.00
Oceanside Harbor
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10105523
Price: $1.00
Los Angeles, A Breathtaking view
Not postally used, but partly written on the back. Grade: 4

Code: 10105524
Price: $0.50
San Francisco Generic Post Card
We know people do collect these generic postcards, so here’s San Francisco for you, mailed from there with three different stamps and readable postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 10105525
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Chinatown, “Street of the Gamblers”
Two of the four edges on this unused card are perforated, so it came out of a book. And there is a black X inked on the lower right reverse corner. Grade: 3

Code: 10105526
Price: $1.00
Shasta Dam
Are you into dam postcards? Here’s an unremarkable but unmarked one for you. Plastichrome P3599, unused. Creased lower left corner. Grade: 3

Code: 10105527
Price: $1.00
Fort Ross
The sender didn’t think much of this card. We admit, we’re not wild about it either, but it’s not that bad. Mailed in 2013 with the round Global Forever stamp, and readable postmark. Some postal creasing. Grade: 3

Code: 10105528
Price: $1.00
Multiple views
The sender got away with using a domestic Forever stamp for international postage, along with another sticker of a cat that looks a lot like a stamp, but isn’t. Indistinct postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 10105529
Price: $0.50
Coast Redwoods – Lady Bird Johnson Grove
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card with perforated left edge (so it came from a set) and some corner bumping. Grade: 2

Code: 10105530
Price: $0.50
Coast Redwoods – Riverbank Lupine
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card with perforated left edge (so it came from a set) and some corner bumping. Grade: 2

Code: 10105531
Price: $0.50
San Francisco, United Air Lines
Can we assume this postcard flew on United Airlines from the USA to Hong Kong? Either way, it got here, with round “Global Forever” stamp and readable postmark. Some postal abrasion on the reverse, not really major. Grade: 3

Code: 10105532
Price: $2.00
Asti, Italian Swiss Colony Winery Main Tasting Room
Other cards from this winery appear earlier in the category. This one, from Mike Roberts (SC14056) is unused, slightly aging. Grade: 1

Code: 10105533
Price: $1.00
Asti, Italian Swiss Colony Winery, visitors sample
No disrespect intended, but they look so uncomfortable and formal. Unused card from the winery itself. Grade: 1

Code: 10105534
Price: $1.00
Walteria, Smith Bros. Fish Shanty Restaurant
If you Google “Smith Bros. Fish Shanty” you find more than one. If you add in “Walteria,” this narrows the field but there’s no sign the place is still open. Our price for this unused Plastichrome card P12684 is significantly lower than other sellers, though. Grade: 1

Code: 10105535
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Sheraton-Palace, Garden Court
This looks the same as our 10105249 on the front, but the print run is different (this one is July, 1966) and the card is used (mailed in 1968 with 5-cent stamp, and postmark). Grade: 1

Code: 10105536
Price: $1.00
San Diego and Bay from Point Loma
Unused Curteichcolor card 7C-K1050 (D.53) in great condition for its age. Grade: 1

Code: 10105538
Price: $2.00
San Diego Zoo, Flamingos
Do you collect flamingo postcards? Well … Unused entry SDZ-4 of the Animal Color Series from the San Diego Zoo: Flamingos with the San Diego Zoo Tour Bus in the background. A rubber-stamped date “Mar 1962” on lower left reverse, and also written on lower right front. Grade: 4

Code: 10105539
Price: $1.00
Castle Crags
Unused H.S. Crocker card K-280, beginning to age. Grade: 2

Code: 10105540
Price: $1.00
Glamorous Hollywood, Hollywood at Night
Unused Curteichcolor card 9C-K2142 (H.19) of the view from Mulholland Drive. As they say, “spectacular”. Grade: 1

Code: 10105541
Price: $1.00
Bell Tower of the Mission San Diego de Alcala
Mailed in 1968, with 5-cent stamp and postmark, this card has aged far beyond its years. Grade: 4

Code: 10105542
Price: $1.00
Air View of La Jolla
…then. Unused Western Publishing card D-135. Grade: 2

Code: 10105543
Price: $2.00
Coalinga, R.C. Baker Memorial Museum
It’s still there, and Google brings up flattering entries. This is an unused ad-type card, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 10105544
Price: $2.00
Santa Maria, Colonial Motel
Not postally used, but someone typed the typical “This is where we stayed …” statement on the back. Grade: 4

Code: 10105545
Price: $1.00
Escondido, Looking westward
Two unused cards are available, clean but aging significantly. Grades: 3

Code: 10105546
Price: $2.00
Sequoia National Park, General Sherman Tree
Not used, but with a big gray water blotch on the reverse. The front is fine. Grade: 4

Code: 10105547
Price: $0.50
Moro Rock – Sequoia National Park
Unused Colorscope card S-185. Grade: 1

Code: 10105549
Price: $1.00
Beautiful San Diego County, five views
Oceanside, Encinitas, Del Mar, Rancho Bernardo, and Escondido all representing North County on this unused Road Runner card CS 910. Two are available. Grades: 1

Code: 10105550
Price: $2.00
Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
Unused card of a park east of Yosemite. Grade: 2

Code: 10105552
Price: $1.00
Mono Lake, Tufa Towers
Unused card, aging, of a park east of Yosemite. Quoting the caption, “Tufa Towers were built up by underwater springs that deposited calcium carbonate and silica when the lake level was higher.” Grade: 1

Code: 10105554
Price: $1.00
Coronado, Del Coronado Hotel
The card says Coronado, but we still think of it as San Diego. Unused, Plastichrome P77696. Grade: 2

Code: 10105555
Price: $2.00
San Diego, California Tower and Alcazar Gardens in Balboa Park
Unused, clean but aging Plastichrome card P77700, modestly claiming that the Tower is “one of the finest examples of Spanish architecture in the world.” Grade: 2

Code: 10105556
Price: $1.00
Yosemite National Park, Lower Yosemite Fall
In the pantheon of California postcards, not one of the most exciting, but it’s a beautiful location. Unused H.S. Crocker card BSY-44-A, notably aging. Grade: 2

Code: 10105557
Price: $1.00
Yosemite National Park, Ahwahnee Hotel & Royal Arches
Unused Mirro-Krome H.S. Crocker card BSY-75. Grade: 2

Code: 10105558
Price: $1.00
San Diego Community Concourse
Mailed in 1969 with 5-cent stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10105559
Price: $1.00
San Diego, Spreckel’s Organ, Balboa Park
Mailed in 1968, 5-cent stamp and misplacd postmark. Aging. Grade: 2

Code: 10105560
Price: $1.00
Indio, Date Harvest
There was a time–we’re not certain about now–when little stalls selling date shakes and date malts lined the roadway in this area. Wonder if that’s still the case. Those, and frozen chocolate-covered bananas. Yum. Mailed in 1967 with a 4-cent stamp, and full Palm Desert postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10105561
Price: $2.00
San Francisco Chinatown
Judging by the cars, an old photo on an unused card E-349. Grade: 1

Code: 10105562
Price: $3.00
Sacramento, The Beauty Rest Motel
Gone but not forgotten, on an unused ShiniColor postcard SK7166. Well, unused except that someone–possibly from the motel itself–inked changes in the number of units and the phone number. Grade: 3

Code: 10105565
Price: $3.00

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