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Skiing
Just like someone had to be the first to try raw oysters, someone else was the first to see this landscape and think “I can go down that.” The card was mailed in 2001 using a postage meter sticker that seems to cover 20% of the reverse and protrudes over the edge. Orange bar coding on front. Grade: 5

Code: 10106044
Price: $1.00
Denver, skyline
Not sure if it was a boring card when it was made, or if it just became one. It was mailed in 1984, has two stamps and Denver postmark, and was full of good intentions. Grade: 3

Code: 10106045
Price: $1.00
Denver, comic
The front’s not comic but the reverse message area is full of pre-printed text where the sender could check off a bunch of choices. It was mailed in what looks like 1986 but the postmark’s not too clear because of all that printing under it. A product of “Comic Cards” of Denver. Grade: 2

Code: 10106046
Price: $2.00
Rocky Mountain National Park, Bear Lake
Very minor postmark smudging on front as a result of being mailed in 1986 with a 33-cent airmail stamp. This is Flatiron Postcard Co. card 41, printed in Australia, then to Hong Kong by way of Malaysia. Who says the mountains don’t move? Grade: 2

Code: 10106047
Price: $2.00
Pueblo, Town House Motor Hotel
Mailed in 1986, this card is good on the front but the reverse is a mess of abrasions, torn stamp, mottling, and general aging. Grade: 4

Code: 10106048
Price: $1.50
Colorado Springs, Red Lion Inn
Mailed in 1988 with 39-cent stamp, but heavily marked on the front, as you can see. Grade: 5

Code: 10106049
Price: $1.00
Denver Art Museum, Kuan Yin
Polychromed wood sculpture from the 10th century. But not the card, which was mailed in 1998 with a 50-cent Cochran stamp and nearly full Denver postmark. The address is on a label, and there’s postal barcoding on both sides of the card. Grade: 3

Code: 10106050
Price: $1.50
Denver Museum of Natural History, Coffin of Ramses the Great
This card measures 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ and was mailed in 1987 with a 33-cent Verville stamp and fully legible Denver postmark. The dark tone magnifies a bit of edge abrasion and bumping. Grade: 2

Code: 10106051
Price: $2.00
Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park
Unused card, serrated edges. Front is perfect and at first glance so is the reverse, but look closer and see the card had been taped to something. Almost invisible, but the abrasions are there. Grade: 3

Code: 10106052
Price: $1.00
Buena Vista, Mt. Princeton
Unused card, serrated edges. Front is perfect and at first glance so is the reverse, but look closer and see the card had been taped to something. Almost invisible, but the abrasions are there. Grade: 3

Code: 10106053
Price: $1.00
Mount Elbert
Unused card, serrated edges. Front is fine, but the card had been taped to something and the resulting abrasions appear on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 10106054
Price: $1.00
Pagosa Springs
Unused card, serrated edges, but with barely visible abrasions on the reverse as a result of taping. Grade: 4

Code: 10106055
Price: $1.00
Ouzel Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park
An unused, quite heavy and thick, matte-finish Sanborn Souvenir card 885037 (and R-187) with serrated edges. Grade: 2

Code: 10106056
Price: $2.00
Durango, Vallecito Lake
Unused Petley card 127848, serrated edges and a little bit of some red smear in address area. Grade: 3

Code: 10106057
Price: $1.00
Wolf Creek Pass
Unused Petley card 6ED-282, of this spot along US 160 through the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado.. Card has serrated edges and is as-new but that bus betrays the age. Grade: 1

Code: 10106058
Price: $1.50
In the Clouds: A Thousand Miles through the Rockies (folder)
Wonderful old folder issued by Denver and Rio Grande Rail Road, showing 20 views of life in the Rockies–Denver, trains, bridges, gorges, like that. This was mailed in 1942 from Colorado to Iowa with a rare 1-1/2 cent stamp, and the only flaw we can see is a tear on one side where the back flap would tuck in. What an atmospheric old item this is. Grade: 3

Code: 10106059
Price: $15.00
Rocky Mountain National Park – Dream Lake Trail
Unused Flatiron postcard D-16989 showing Long’s Peak as viewed from Dream Lake Trail. We wish someone would decide whether Long’s Peak has that apostrophe or not. Grade: 2

Code: 10106060
Price: $1.00
Estes Park, Lake Estes and village
Unused Plastichrome card P89782, with serrated edges. Grade: 2

Code: 10106061
Price: $1.00
Trail Ridge Road, Switchbacks
Unused Dexter Press card 47443-C (and 10-R-116) from Sanborn Souvenir Co., with serrated edges and a bunch of dead trees. Grade: 1

Code: 10106062
Price: $1.00
Big Thompson Canyon
Unused Plastichrome card P89791 with serrated edges and abrasions on the reverse where it had been taped onto something. Grade: 3

Code: 10106063
Price: $1.00
Grand Junction, El Palomino Motel
Unmailed card from 1959, as indicated by a pencilled notation on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10106064
Price: $2.50
Fruita, Canon in Colorado National Monument
Unmailed Sanborn Souvenir Co./Dexter Press card 18173-B (and #3892) with rounded corners and bits of album abrasions on the reverse. The area looks rugged indeed. Grade: 3

Code: 10106065
Price: $1.00
Middle Park, Lone Eagle Peak
Absolutely as-new unused Dexter Press card 89426, with rounded corners. Did you know that Lone Eagle Peak is also called Lindbergh Peak? Neither did we. Grade: 1

Code: 10106066
Price: $2.50
Pike’s Peak, from Garden of the Gods
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10106067
Price: $1.00
Lookout Mountain, view from Buffalo Bill Museum
Cards like this are very nice, though as someone once said, “The mountains don’t move.” Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10106068
Price: $1.00
Loveland, Big Thompson Canyon
Unused Flatiron Post Card Co. card D-16988, with serrated edges, Grade: 1

Code: 10106069
Price: $1.00
Pagosa Springs, Chimney Rock
Petley card SP-61 (all we can see) with serrated edges, mailed in 1976 with full Mesa Verde National Park postcard on 9-cent stamp. Minor corner creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 10106070
Price: $3.00
Thompson Canon, Beyond the Towering Cliffs
Unused Dexter Press card 81057-B (and 15-R-108) with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 10106071
Price: $1.00
Spectacular Southwestern Colorado
Unused Petley card P309285 with a great variety of views: train, Four Corners, Wolf Creek Pass, Mt. Sneffels, Purgatory ski area, and others. Serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 10106072
Price: $2.00
Mesa Verde National Park entrance
Unused Petley card C-114-C, with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 10106073
Price: $1.50
Denver, night view from First National Bank building
Unused card with serrated edges, and a spot on the front that looks like an abrasion but is actually built into the card itself–maybe just bright lights. Grade: 1

Code: 10106074
Price: $2.50
Will Rogers Memorial
Unused card, as-new, with serrated edges. It worries us that people are beginning to forget who Will Rogers was, but trust us, if we had a few more like him … oh well. Grade: 1

Code: 10106075
Price: $1.00
Denver, Holiday Inn Sports Center
It’s been awhile since we stayed in a Holiday Inn and we’re not sure if they still let their properties choose generic cards like this. The front as you see could be from anywhere, but the reverse of the two unused cards we have gives details of the unit at the Denver Sports Center. Grades: 1

Code: 10106076
Price: $3.00
Pikes Peak (folio)
Common in the 1950s-60s, these little (2.9″ x 4.2″) folios of ten color photos sometimes had a place for the address on the back cover and sometimes didn’t, which is the case here. The cover says there are ten color pictures, and if you count the cover, then yes, there are ten. What that means is: we’re not sure if one is missing or not. For that reason only, we call it: Grade: 2

Code: 10106077
Price: $6.00
Mount Sopris
This card survived mailing in 1982, with full postmark and 13-cent stamp, virtually unscathed. It got lucky. So can you. Grade: 1

Code: 10106078
Price: $2.00
Wolf Creek Pass
Mailed in 2000 with a stamp and most of the postmark, along with USPS barcoding on bottom reverse, the front has a small abrasion on lower right corner. Grade: 3

Code: 10106079
Price: $1.00
Waterfall
Unusually, the printed caption gives the state but no other information. Three different stamps on this card mailed in 2010, USPS barcoding, barely abraded edge. Grade: 2

Code: 10106080
Price: $2.00
Hello from Castle Rock
Can’t get much more down home than this, especially considering the possibility of an ocean beach in Colorado. Russ wasn’t worried about that, and neither are we. Unused Laff Gram card R-24. Grade: 1

Code: 10106081
Price: $2.00
Denver, Evergreen Dam and Bear Creek
Dexter Press card 83661 (and #3086), unused, rounded corners, and Judy Kellogg’s name written in ink on the message panel. Were it not for that, the card would be as-new. However, Grade: 3

Code: 10106082
Price: $0.50
Leadville, California Gulch
This is a very old Colochrome card of a view from Breece Hill that manages somehow to look like a new card that looks old. We know that doesn’t make much sense when you read it here, but if you saw the card, you’d know what we meant. Unused, faded, bleak. Grade: 2

Code: 10106083
Price: $2.00

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