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Balanced Rock, Colorado National Monument
Unused, mildly aging Mike Roberts card C22831. This scene is in Fruita Canyon. Grade: 2
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Bear Creek Falls
Unused H.S. Crocker card 507, heavily handled. Grade: 3
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Colorado Springs, Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun
The Dexter Press card 40621 is unused but has a 1961 date inked over the postage area. Grade: 3
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Colorado Springs, Seven Falls in South Cheyenne Canon
Dexter Press card 6305-C (#3564) with serrated edges. It was not mailed and is unwritten apart from a round blue rubber-stamped “chop” on the back saying that it was mailed at Seven Falls … we don’t downgrade the card because of that. Grade: 1
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Colorado Springs, Will Rogers Memorial, Cheyenne Mt.
Unused old postcard. Grade: 1
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Denver Museum of Natural History, Mule Deer Exhibit
Unused H.S. Crocker card P-245. Beginning to show its age. Grade: 1
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Denver, The Broncho Buster – Civic Center And State Capitol
“Broncho” is not a typo. Google can tell you about that. We’ll tell you about the postcard: mailed in 1945 or 1946 with stamp and most of the postmark. Grade: 2
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Denver, Red Rocks Park Theatre
Unused, aging Selithco card 540. Grade: 2
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Denver Mountain Parks, Famous Red Rocks Theatre
Unused Dexter Press card 65787 (#3044), rounded corners. Grade: 1
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Denver Mountain Parks, Bear Creek Canon and Highway at Evergreen Corner
Sanborn Souvenir card 7A338-N, unused. Grade: 1
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Morrison, Park of the Red Rocks, Denver Mountain Parks
Can’t quite make out the year on this old card’s postmark–maybe 1923?–but the stamp is there and that age looks about right. Grade: 3
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Vista of the interior of the Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak Region
Unused Dexter Press card 19353-C (#3533), with serrated edges. No, this isn’t the same as our entry 10106259! Grade: 1
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Spires of the Garden of the Gods from the north
Unused Dexter Press card 33097-C (#3510), with serrated edges. No, this isn’t the same as our entry 10106258! Grade: 1
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Suspension Bridge over Royal Gorge
The caption on this unused card says “The highest bridge in the world” and that was true when the card was printed. Now, ranking #13 on Wikipedia’s list, it’s just the highest in the U.S.A. And what does Wikipedia have to say about the current highest?: “The rankings of the world’s tallest and highest bridges differ in part because some of the highest bridges are built across deep valleys and gorges. The Sidu River Bridge in Hubei Province of China is a suspension bridge that spans a deep river gorge. The bridge’s two towers, built on either rim of the gorge, are not tall enough for the bridge structure to be counted among the world’s tallest, but due to the depth of the river gorge, the deck height of the Sidu River Bridge is at least 496 m (1,627 ft) above the river, making it the highest bridge in the world. ” So there! Grade: 2
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Royal Gorge, Grand Canyon of the Arkansas
First, let’s get this observation out of the way: the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas is in Colorado, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado is in Arizona. Maybe they could start over? Now, about the postcard: unmailed E.C. Kropp 32571, with a pencilled notation about the bridge in the message area. Grade: 4
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Echo Cliffs Canyon of the Grand River
Unused, noticeably foxed C.T. American Art card 11473. Grade: 3
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Pueblo, Scene Mineral Palace Park
Unused, linen-style E.C. Kropp card 12942N (14). Grade: 1
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Mesa Verde National Park, Square Tower
Unused Rembrandt card 1163. Aging. Grade: 2
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Pikes Peak framed by one of the ancient Junipers
Unused Dexter Press card 41978 (#3527), rounded corners. Grade: 1
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Long’s (sic) Peak and Mt. Meeker
Nice old C.T. Art-Colortone Sanborn card 6A-H41 (2213), linen, unused. Grade: 1
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The East Face of Long’s Peak with Chasm Lake in Foreground
Unused Curteichcolor card 6C-K262. Grade: 2
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Longs Peak from the Dream Lake Trail
Unused Cooper Post Card CP-19. Grade: 2
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Fort Peabody, Imogene Pass
Mailed in 2012, with $1.05 stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Glenwood Canyon, Hanging Lake
Unused H.S. Crocker card D-557. Aging. Grade: 2
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Main Street of Estes Park
Mailed in 1965 with a 5-cent stamp and postmark, the front of this card is good but the reverse has some water stains that have blurred the message a bit. Still, it’s a passable “Main Street postcard”. Grade: 3
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Gateway Garden of Gods, Showing Pikes Peak
Mailed in 1918, with stamp and postmark, almost like being there. Grade: 3
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Colorado National Monument, Tunnels on the Rim Drive
Unused E.C. Kropp card 9662N. Grade: 1
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The Coke Ovens, Monument Canyon
Unused E.C. Kropp card 9670N. Grade: 1
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Dream Lake, Hallett Peak
“A short hike from Bear Lake” and the kind of postcard you send to other people. Unused Mike Roberts card C2736. Grade: 1
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Lookout Mountain, Grave of Buffalo Bill
Among Buffalo Bill postcards, this one is as close to “fun” as it is possible for any postcard with a grave on it to be. In 1943, Margaret wrote to Helen about her visit (stamp and postmark are there) and strongly suggested how great it would be if they could both live there. (Presume she didn’t mean right at the gravesite.) Linen card, with a pencilled line through the street address. Grade: 2
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Canon City, Colorado Territorial Prison Museum
The prison itself opened in 1871, all explained in the caption of this unused prison postcard. Apparently one of the museum’s exhibits is a gas chamber. Grade: 1
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Denver, skyline
Denver postcards are not in short supply, we know, but you might not have this one. Mailed in 2020, with round Global Forever stamp, postmark, and rubber-stamp imprint favouring snail mail — which we endorse. Grade: 2
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Canon City, State Penitentiary
Unused Sanborn Souvenir card 5A-182N (601), with a startlingly candid caption and looking almost as-new. Grade: 1
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Denver Mountain, Red Rocks Theatre
Mailed in 1958, this card has rounded corners, the 2-cent stamp, overlapping postmarks from Colorado Springs, and a tiny extra price sticker. Grade: 3
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Victory Highway, Crater Mountain from Berthoud Pass
One of the most florid (and therefore amusing) postcard captions we’ve ever seen, on this unused Sanborn Souvenir card 5629-29-N. Hubris! Grade: 1
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Colorado Springs, Pikes (sic) Peak Auto Highway, The Switchbacks
Just to amuse you, the official height of Pike’s Peak is 14,110′, though the card’s caption says 14,109′. How great satellite technology is. Unused Sanborn Souvenir card 92441-N. Grade: 1
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Glacier Circle Trip, Depths of Boulder Canon
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone linen card 5A-H2693 (2009) from Sanborn Souvenir, showing an area between Boulder and Nederland. Minor stain near the postage area. Grade: 2
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Canon City, Royal Gorge, Diesel Train
Unused Dexter Press card 84134 from Sanborn Souvenir, with rounded corners and a caption on the back calling the Suspension Bridge you see here spanning the Arkansas River the “World’s Highest Bridge”. It should surprise nobody that Googling a list of “world’s highest bridges” now ranks this one as #24, behind one in Mexico, one in Papua New Guinea, and 21 in PR China. Grade: 1
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Bear Lake
Unused Mike Roberts card C231, showing Long’s Peak in the background (14,255′ in the caption; 14,259′ in Wikipedia). Grade: 1
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Denver, City Park, Sea Lions
The front of this old card is OK, and it does still have an (abraded) stamp and 1931 postmark. But the reverse is in terrible condition after being pasted in an album. Grade: 5