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The Redwoods (J.B. Strauss) – 128
Unused Selithco True Color card 128. It gives us the Latin (scientific) name: Sequoia Sempervirens. Grade: 1

Code: 10105693
Price: $1.00
General Grant Tree C14534
Unused Mike Roberts card C14534. Grade: 1

Code: 10105694
Price: $1.00
San Diego, The Zoo in Balboa Park
Unused E.C. Kropp card 30803, with every animal kindly identified in the caption on the back. Grade: 2

Code: 10105695
Price: $3.00
Bel Air, Home of Warner Baxter
In case you’ve forgotten, Warner Baxter was an American film actor who won an Academy Award in 1929 as Best Actor. This postcard was not postally used but has a long inked account on the back of what someone did on that day in 1938. Grade: 4

Code: 10105699
Price: $1.00
Santa Maria, train and strawberries
Mailed in 2014 with two stamps and postmark, this is an unusual combination of pictures. Other rubber stamp legends on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10105700
Price: $2.00
Los Angeles, Union Station
Unused Curteichcolor card L.217 (6DK-1941). Grade: 1

Code: 10105701
Price: $1.00
Los Angeles, Union Station (with text)
Unused, significantly aged Kolor Sales Ko. card KSK-1263 (51433-B) from Dexter Press. Not to be confused with our item #10105703, which has the same photo, same reverse, and same manufacturer’s numbers but without text on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10105702
Price: $1.00
Los Angeles, Union Station (without text)
Unused, aging Kolor Sales Ko. card KSK-1263 (51433-B) from Dexter Press. Not to be confused with our item #10105702, which has the same photo, same reverse, and same manufacturer’s numbers but without text on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10105703
Price: $1.00
Los Angeles, Union Station 706
Unused, vintage pseudo-linen Longshaw Card #706. Grade: 1

Code: 10105704
Price: $2.00
Needles, El Garces New Santa Fe Hotel
Fred Harvey produced this (unused) Phostint postcard 11953 in 1908 or shortly after. Grade: 2

Code: 10105706
Price: $3.00
Los Angeles, Union Station P20259
Unused Plastichrome card P20259, aging slightly. Grade: 2

Code: 10105707
Price: $1.00
Los Angeles, Union Station Ticket Concourse
Mailed in 1949, the postmark is there but the stamp is long gone. Grade: 4

Code: 10105708
Price: $0.50
Los Angeles, Union Station Waiting Room
Two of these unused, C.T. Art-Colortone linen cards 9A-H918 are available. Grades: 1

Code: 10105709
Price: $3.00
Palm Springs and Coachella Valley, date palms
Unused but heavily handled H.S. Crocker card FS-28. Grade: 4

Code: 10105710K
Price: $0.50
Downtown Los Angeles
This unused H.S. Crocker card LA-1115 looks like late 1950s or very early 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10105711K
Price: $2.00
Los Angeles, Freeway Interchange
Unused H.S. Crocker card LA-1051, late 50s or early 60s. Grade: 1

Code: 10105712K
Price: $2.00
Los Angeles, Wilshire Blvd. and MacArthur Park
Two of these unused H.S. Crocker cards LA-1147 are available. They were appropriated by the Olympic Hotel, which added its own rubber stamp details on the reverse. We won’t downgrade because of that. Grades: 1

Code: 10105713K
Price: $2.00
Los Angeles, Olympic Hotel
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone card 0B-H362. When this vintage postcard was printed, it must have been a decent place. Our Google search turned up later reviews that made it sound like Hell on Earth. Not so sure what it is now — something is there. The card, though, is great, and iconic for its genre. Grade: 1

Code: 10105714K
Price: $5.00
Azusa, Crystal Lake Store, man and dog
Unused, real-photo card with a diagonal crease. We had to do some Google research to find out where this is. Grade: 3

Code: 10105715K
Price: $6.00
Azusa, Crystal Lake Store, snow
The Crystal Lake Recreation Area is in the Angeles National Forest, north of Azusa in the San Gabriel Mountains. This is an old, unused, real-photo companion card for #10105715K, also with a slight diagonal crease. You might not see it well in the scan, but there’s a white-on-white caption at bottom front. If both cards are available, take them for $9 (for both). Grade: 3

Code: 10105716K
Price: $7.00
Peach Blossoms and “Old Baldy”
It’s a very old card, not postally used, but Miss Clara McBride might not ever have received it even though her name is on the back. Grade: 4

Code: 10105717
Price: $0.50
Ruins of the Old Stone Church, Mission San Juan Capistrano
Unused C.T. Photo-Colorit linen-style card 9B-H566, serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 10105718
Price: $2.00
1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Sam the Eagle
Unused, officially licensed card from the XXIIIrd Olympiad, of the mascot. Grade: 1

Code: 10105720
Price: $3.00
Peaceful Catalina Island
Mailed from Canada (not Catalina) in 2014, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 10105721
Price: $1.00
The Prize of Superiority Football
We would imagine if you are a sports-minded UCB alum, you know all about this statue. If not, Google will bring you right back to 1898. The card itself? From 1912, with stamp and postmark, and a message from Ned that will remain cryptic forever. Grade: 2

Code: 10105722
Price: $3.00
Anaheim, Home of Disneyland
Unused, unattributed card C37209. Beginning to show its age. Grade: 2

Code: 10105723
Price: $3.00
San Diego, U.S. Naval Hospital
Mailed in 1971 with a 6-cent stamp and postmark. Dexter Press card 8367-C. Grade: 2

Code: 10105724
Price: $1.00
Riverside, Magnolia Avenue
“On the road of a thousand wonders,” though the card itself, maybe less so. Mailed in 1910, parts of postmarks are there but the stamp is long gone. Grade: 5

Code: 10105725
Price: $0.50
Shasta Dam, Vista House
Unused Curteichcolor card 8C-K431, and someone has pencilled the date “10-14-60” on the back. That seems about right. Grade: 3

Code: 10105726
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Looking down California Street from Chinatown
Colourful old, unused, Pacific Novelty card I-78. Minor smudging. Grade: 2

Code: 10105727
Price: $4.00
La Mesa, The La Mesa Depot
Here’s a factoid for you: this Depot is the only surviving San Diego & Cuyamaca Railway station in existence, built in 1894 and restored in 1981. Unused Mary Jayne card MJ379. Grade: 1

Code: 10105729
Price: $2.00
San Diego, A sunset surf at the famous Ocean Beach Pier
Unused card captioned in six languages. Grade: 1

Code: 10105730
Price: $1.00
Los Angeles, LAX “Jet Age” International Air terminal
Unused Western Publishing card L-111, showing the “Skyhigh Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge” on top and a Convair Jet 880 on the bottom. Grade: 1

Code: 10105731
Price: $4.00
San Francisco Municipal Railway, Muni 1040
British-made, British-mailed, Simplon postcard with stamp, postmark, and blue Air Mail sticker. Lots of information in two separate captions. Grade: 3

Code: 10105732
Price: $2.00
Garberville, He and She at Grundy’s Redwood Terrace
When we Googled this, we found the only remaining trace of the facility to be on a great variety of postcards. If you’ve come this far, we can tell you this is a nice example and we’ll undercut the prices of our competition. Mailed in 1957 with a 2-cent stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10105733
Price: $2.00
Littlerock Dam in the San Gabriel Mountains
Unused Plastichrome card P49693, aging a bit and with a smudge on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 10105734
Price: $1.00
Moonlight Scene, Avalon Bay, Catalina Island
Although the unused card itself has been heavily handled and abraded around the edges, it retains a mystical and appealing sense of calm. We really like this picture. Grade: 3

Code: 10105735
Price: $1.00
Recreation on Calero Dam
Unused card PC-5, aging, from the Greater San Jose Chamber of Commerce. You might ask, “Where’s the dam?” So might we. Grade: 2

Code: 10105736
Price: $0.50
Redwood Highway between Garberville and Eureka
Mailed in 1926 with stamp and postmark. Much postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10105737
Price: $2.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, Congo Queen
Mailed in 1956 with two stamps and Culver City postmark, along with significant postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10105738
Price: $3.00

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