Missouri – Global Postcard Sales

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Kansas City, Golden Ox Restaurant
Can’t speak for now, but back in the 1950s when this Curteichcolor 6C-K 972 card was issued, this was quite a place to go. Unmailed card but it has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on reverse.

Code: 10126001
Price: $3.00
Kansas City, Wish Bone Restaurant
How much fun it must have been to eat there. Hey, wait! We did! But we don’t remember the experience. Unmailed card dates from 1950s, and just as a side note it says the restaurant is “Home of the Famous Wishbone Salad Dressing.” It has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the reverse, and is C.T. Art-Colortone 4C-H164. We throw that in just for the search engines. Grade: 4

Code: 10126002
Price: $4.00
Kansas City, Eddys’ Restaurant
Two of these cards from the 50s are available. Both are unmailed and have the travel agency rubber stamp on reverse. One (Grade 4, $3) has no other marks. One (Grade 5, $1.50) has staining along the reverse edge.

Code: 10126003
Price: $3.00
Kansas City, Union Station and skyline
From the 1950s, a nice view of Union Station and the Kansas City, Missouri, skyline as seen from the Liberty Memorial Monument. Unused card, but has a travel agency rubber stamp on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 10126004
Price: $2.00
St. Louis, Gateway Arch
Mailed in 1967, this card has two perforated edges indicating that it was part of a linked series. Postmark is there but obscured by the caption, and the stamp is partly torn. But the front is OK, and the Arch was fairly new at that time. Grade: 4

Code: 10126005
Price: $1.00
Camdenton, aerial view
Before the Ozarks became ultra-famous, there was Camdenton. Unmailed card, but has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the reverse. Probably dates from the 1950s. Grade: 4

Code: 10126006
Price: $1.00
St. Louis, YMCA
One of very few cards in such bad condition that we list it for less than $1. It’s torn, the stamps are missing, it has rubber stamp marks on the back, etc., but if you have been desperately looking for a card of the St. Louis YMCA, this will do until you find something better. Grade: 5

Code: 10126007
Price: $0.50
Lake of the Ozarks, Bagnell Dam
Once upon a time this was about the only man-made structure of consequence in the Ozarks. See how things change. Blair Cedar & Novelty Works linen card K4944 (and BL72), unmailed but with a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the back. Grade: 4

Code: 10126008
Price: $1.00
St. Louis, view from Gateway Arch
The card is called “Arched Angles” (!) and shows the view looking southeast over the Mississippi River. Mailed in 1987, there’s a partial Washington DC postmark, a USPS airmail sticker, and a 33-cent Verville airmail stamp. There’s also considerable postmark and USPS smudging on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 10126009
Price: $1.00
Camdenton, Bowers Resort
Google isn’t much help on this, making it look like the resort has turned into a Boy Scout camp. If that’s the case, then good for everyone. Unused card from the 1950s, and apart from really minor abrasion on the front, it could be as-new today. Grade: 1

Code: 10126010
Price: $3.00
Warsaw, The Motts Motel
The photo goes wayyyyyyyy back, and the card is from the 1950s, unused but with two features on the reverse: a travel agency rubber stamp, and another rubber stamp with the then-current name of the motel (Motts) over the originally printed name (White Branch Resort Motel). They could not possibly have made the place look bleaker. Grade: 4

Code: 10126011
Price: $3.00
Branson, Old Matt’s Cabin, Shepherd of the Hills Farm
According to the card, which has serrated edges and was mailed with a 9-cent stamp but no legible postmark, Old Matt’s Cabin is Missouri’s leading historical attraction. OK, we believe it, but we used to live in Missouri and never heard of it. Grade: 3

Code: 10126012
Price: $1.00
St. Louis, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial grounds
Mailed in 2010 with one 98-cent stamp and blurry postmark like the new generation of marks always are. Grade: 2

Code: 10126013
Price: $1.00
St. Louis, New Hotel Jefferson, The Rendezvous
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 5B-H724, back in the day. Grade: 1

Code: 10126014
Price: $3.00
Independence, Historic Jail and Museum
Unused Tetricolor card 69658, not to be confused with our entry #10126018 which has a completely different photo but identical caption. Grade: 2

Code: 10126016
Price: $2.00
Kansas City, The Scout statue
Unused Tetricolor card 050393 of this famous statue by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, in Penn Valley Park. Grade: 3

Code: 10126017
Price: $1.00
Independence, Historic Jail and Museum
Unused Tetricolor card 69659, not to be confused with our entry #10126016 which has a completely different photo but identical caption. Grade: 2

Code: 10126018
Price: $2.00
Hannibal, Entrance to Mark Twain Cave
Real photo card, written and mailed in 1943. The postmark is there, but the stamp isn’t. One can easily imagine Tom Sawyer running in and out of there. Grade: 4

Code: 10126019
Price: $3.00
St. Louis, Union Station
Terrific old Buxton & Skinner card S39, mailed in 1913 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10126020
Price: $9.00
Cape Girardeau, Main Street looking south
Unused Curt Teich linen card 4A-H446 from Strom’s News Agency. A quieter time. Grade: 1

Code: 10126021
Price: $3.00
Kansas City, Country Club District, Verona Columns
Mailed in 1941 with stamp and full postmark. For whatever reason, some–not all–of the pencilled message and address, basically the names, have been erased. Grade: 3

Code: 10126022
Price: $4.00
St. Louis, Jefferson Memorial Building
Unused “local” card dated 1964, not aging well at all. Grade: 4

Code: 10126023
Price: $1.00
Kansas City, Swope Park Zoo, sea lion pool
Unused Tetricolor card 30363. Grade: 2

Code: 10126024
Price: $1.00
St. Louis, statue of St. Louis
Unused “local” card with lots of information in a short caption. Grade: 3

Code: 10126025
Price: $1.00
St. Louis, Old Courthouse and Gateway Arch
Unused “local” card #A1232, incredibly similar to our entry #10126015 but not the same. See if you can spot the differences. Grade: 3

Code: 10126026
Price: $2.00
Branson, Old Matt’s Cabin
Old linen card. The reverse is completely obliterated from having been pasted in an album. Grade: 5

Code: 10126027
Price: $0.50
Shepherd of the Hills, monument
Unused Mike Roberts card C8204, aging. Grade: 3

Code: 10126028
Price: $1.00
Joplin, Air View of Business District
Unused Curteich-Chicago card OB70-N, at a time when Joplin had 35,000 people. “The Land of a Million Smiles.” (So each person smiled 28.57 times?) Grade: 1

Code: 10126029
Price: $5.00
Hannibal, Mark Twain’s Swimming Pool
Unused S.H. Knox card A-10221 somehow makes the pool look like it’s on the side of a mountain. That may be true but we don’t know. Grade: 3

Code: 10126030
Price: $6.00
Malden, Greetings
Generic card with Malden greetings, and the writer (mailed in 1957, stamp and postmark there) was as skeptical as we are about the view you see here. A bit of staining on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10126031
Price: $3.00
Marceline, Greetings
Unused Curteich-Chicago card S-1151 (and 7B-H351), could be anywhere. Grade: 2

Code: 10126032
Price: $2.00
Hannibal, Lovers Leap and Mississippi River
Take away all those buildings and it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine that it’s Tom Sawyer sitting on that bluff. Unused C.T. American Art card 1756, heavily handled over time. Grade: 4

Code: 10126033
Price: $3.00
St. Louis, Conservatory, Shaw’s Garden
Mailed in 1910, with stamp and full postmark, we wonder whether Louis ever collected his lunch from Nan. We hope so. Papa must have deserved it. Postmark ink transfer on the front of the card. Grade: 3

Code: 10126034
Price: $3.00
St. Louis, Busch Stadium
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, readable modern postmark, and an abrasion in the sky on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 10126035
Price: $2.00
St. Louis, Lambert-Saint Louis Municipal Airport
Mailed in 1964 with 4-cent stamp and mostly legible postmark, and a fully informative caption. Grade: 1

Code: 10126036
Price: $2.00
St. Louis, Lambert Field, St. Louis Municipal Airport
Mailed in 1940 with stamp and full postmark. A small bit of the lower right corner is missing. Grade: 4

Code: 10126037
Price: $3.00
Independence, Summer White House
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 6B4-N of the home of President Harry S Truman. Grade: 1

Code: 10126038
Price: $2.00
St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden
Mailed in 2009 with two stamps and fuzzy postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10126039
Price: $1.00
Lake Ozark, Bagnell Dam
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 38350-N that tells us something we didn’t know before this: at the time the card was printed, “The Lake of the Ozarks, created by the building of the dam, is one of the world’s largest wholly artificial bodies of water.” Grade: 1

Code: 10126040
Price: $3.00
St. Louis, Forest Park, Rest House and Electric Fountain
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 10126041
Price: $1.00

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