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Vail Pass, Autumn scene
Unused Dexter Press card 11593-B, rounded corner. Grade: 1

Code: 10106287
Price: $1.00
Denver Mountain Parks, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Unused old Sanborn Souvenir card 1B943-N, showing this facility in Park of the Red Rocks. Age-related staining on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 10106288
Price: $1.00
Colorado Springs, So. Cheyenne Canon, Seven Falls
Unused old postcard with long descriptive captions on front and back. If we were using one of today’s popular acronyms, TMI. Grade: 1

Code: 10106289
Price: $2.00
Canon City, Royal Gorge, World’s Highest Bridge
We’ve noted before that this bridge, which might well have been the world’s highest when it was built in 1929, has fallen (not literally) to #24 now and probably destined to slide further down the list. Still impressive, though, unlike this old used card mailed in 1942 whose front is OK but whose back is in awful condition, missing stamp and with a jumble of faded writing. Grade: 4

Code: 10106290
Price: $1.00
Colorado Springs, Helen Hunt’s Grave
This unused old Sanborn Souvenir C.T. Art-Colortone card 7A-H80 (2121) takes liberties with Ms Hunt’s name, as “Helen Hunt” and “Helen Hunt Jackson”. She was, then, famous for having written “Ramona,” though we gently fear the fan club for that book might be growing smaller by now. Grade: 1

Code: 10106291
Price: $1.00
Leadville, Mt. Massive and Mt. Elbert
Many years ago, the owner of this card made what amounted to a diary entry in the message area, with reasons why they couldn’t climb Mt. Elbert. We forgive you. Grade: 4

Code: 10106292
Price: $2.00
Colorado Springs, U.S. Air Force Academy, Cadet Chapel
This is the single building on that campus that always appears on postcards. God would be pleased. Unused card 2DK-1671 (591). Grade: 1

Code: 10106293
Price: $1.00
Colorado Springs, U.S. Air Force Academy, Cadet Chapel in Winter
Unused Cooper postcard 3DK-918 (C.616) with yet another view of a building with 17 spires. Grade: 1

Code: 10106294
Price: $1.00
Colorado Springs, U.S. Air Force Academy, Cadet Chapel at Night
Yet another view of this impressive structure on unused Cooper card 2DK-1683 (603). Grade: 1

Code: 10106295
Price: $1.00
Denver, Spears Chiropractic Sanitarium and Hospital
In 1993, an article appeared in the online Dynamic Chiropractic reporting (we’ve condensed a bit): “A chapter in chiropractic history will close this month with the demolition of the Spears Chiropractic Hospital … The D.D. Palmer Building will be razed. The Willard Carver Building will go the way of condominium redevelopment; townhomes will rise on the undeveloped parcels of land. The hospital, founded in 1943 by chiropractic pioneer Dr. Leo Spears, was the largest chiropractic hospital in the world. The hospital has been closed since March 1984.” Now this unused card’s caption says the artwork is of the hospital “presently under construction”, so that helps date the card itself, and that same caption calls it “the largest private hospital in the world”. Who knew?! Grade: 1

Code: 10106296
Price: $6.00
Denver Mint
Unused card. Serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 10106297
Price: $1.00

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