New Mexico – Global Postcard Sales

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Albuquerque, souvenir album
This is a small (2-7/8″ x 4″) plastic bound album of 10 vignettes, made in 1956 by Petley Studios (22497). It was meant to be sent altogether as a souvenir, though this particular one was not mailed. Grade: 1

Code: 10132001
Price: $16.00
White Sands National Monument
Dated 1958, with 2-cent stamp and full postmark from Kingman, Arizona, this Curteichcolor K-84 card has only a little bit of postmark smudge on the front (only visible because of all that white sand) and a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 10132002
Price: $4.50
Chaco Culture National Monument
Card was made in ~1995 and mailed in 1999 with two different stamps and partial postmark. It’s just a little buffeted around the edges but nothing serious. It has a white margin around the edges that doesn’t show in the photo. Grade: 2

Code: 10132003
Price: $3.50
El Morro National Monument
Not really sepia, just brown-toned, this 1987 card was mailed in 1995 with a 50-cent stamp and partial postmark. The address is on an attached sticker. Grade: 4

Code: 10132004
Price: $3.00
Chaco Culture Park, Pueblo del Arroyo
This is a photo of the Tri-Wall, Pueblo del Arroyo at this national park. Card was mailed with a 50-cent stamp in 1997 and has the post office’s bar code on bottom reverse. Normal and minor abrasions around the edges. Grade: 3

Code: 10132005
Price: $3.00
Albuquerque, Fred Harvey Indian Building and Alvarado Hotel
Unmailed Petley card 18244 from the 1950s or 60s. The front, which also shows Santa Fe RR tracks and the Alvarado Hotel, is excellent; the reverse has a travel agent’s rubber stamp mark on it. Grade: 4

Code: 10132006
Price: $3.00
Santa Fe and Taos (folio)
This is a fold-out folio of 18 views, not individual postcards. It is in superb condition apart from a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the inside cover. Grade: 4

Code: 10132007
Price: $8.00
Los Alamos, The Lodge
Unmailed Dexter Press card 71240 showing The Lodge Hotel, which had been part of the Los Alamos Ranch School previously. Front of card is excellent. Reverse has a travel agent’s rubber stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 10132008
Price: $1.00
Four Corners Monument
We have a few different cards with different views of this location, and randomly assigned this one to New Mexico. The problem is, as maybe you’ve read recently, is that the true “Four Corners” is several miles away. Oops! This is unused Sebring News Service card S-74212. Grade: 1

Code: 10132009
Price: $3.00
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County Indian Hospital
Unmailed Southwest Post Card Co. / Curteich-Chicago linen card 4C-H774, with the date “1958” pencilled on the reverse alongside a travel agent’s rubber stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 10132010
Price: $1.00
Santa Fe, Opera House
Mailed in 1985 with two 14-cent Sinclair Lewis stamps but other stains and postage due and postmark smudging make this no more than a well-travelled card. Grade: 4

Code: 10132011
Price: $1.00
Shiprock
Caption tells us the Navajos revere this landmark as Tse Bida hi, or “Winged Rock.” Card was mailed from Denver in 1998 with a Jacqueline Cochran 50-cent airmail stamp and all sorts of postmarks on the back. Some abrasions around the edges. Grade: 3

Code: 10132012
Price: $2.00
Albuquerque, business section
Did you know that Albuquerque was originally spelled Alburquerque in 1706? The card tells us so, but not why they later thought that dropping the r would make a big difference. Older unmailed Southwest Postcard Co. card 9B-H154 (and A-54) would be in great condition but for the travel agency rubber stamp on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 10132013
Price: $3.00
Laguna Indian Pueblo
Southwest Post Card Co. / Curteich-Chicago card 9A-H1280 (and #18), unmailed linen, completely undamaged on the front but with travel agency rubber stamp on reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 10132014
Price: $3.00
Santa Fe
Mailed in 1995 with two 23-cent Lunch Wagon stamps, this card somehow looks like a movie set

Code: 10132015
Price: $2.00
Albuquerque, hot air ballooning
Albuquerque’s Hot Air Balloon Festival with the Rio Grande River in the foreground. Card was mailed in 1996, has a San Diego postmark, a 52-cent Humphrey stamp, and USPS bar coding next to a small abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10132016
Price: $2.00
Yuccas, state flower
We learn from the card that yuccas are a member of the Lily family. OK. Card was mailed from San Dego in 1996 with full postmark and two stamps, a 15-cent Virginia 1720 and a 40-cent 1994 World Cup commemorative. Just a bit of postal creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 10132018
Price: $2.00
Magdalena, lightning dance
From 1996, a card showing a May storm at the Very Large Array, the world’s largest (then?) radio astronomy facility near Magdalena. There’s a Phoenix postmark and three stamps along with a touch of correction fluid from the writer. Grade: 3

Code: 10132019
Price: $2.00
Taos Pueblo
Taos is “the most well known of all the pueblos,” and the card–mailed in 1996 from Albuquerque–benefits from having a 32-cent Butterfly Dance commemorative stamp affixed. Grade: 1

Code: 10132020
Price: $3.00
Deming, Hwy 70-80-180
The writer (in 1985) took the original card, and pasted a blank piece of paper over the original message, cutting out a space for the caption. So you can read all about Deming, and we suppose if you are curious enough you could soak off the paper to see the message underneath. But we wouldn’t recommend it. Has a 28-cent Olympic airmail stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 10132021
Price: $1.00
Santa Fe, Hoxie Lodge
Two (unused) cards are available, with various notations on the reverses, including the pencilled date 1958 as well as a travel agency rubber stamp. Fronts are excellent. Grades: 4

Code: 10132022
Price: $2.00
Albuquerque, El Don Motel
Probably from about 1958, unused card marred only by travel agency rubber stamp on the reverse. The motel was right on Route 66. Front is perfect. Grade: 4

Code: 10132023
Price: $2.00
Tucumcari, Golden W Motel
Unused “King Size” (3.5″ x 9″) card with the date “June, 1960” typed on the reverse. Otherwise, near-perfect. Grade: 3

Code: 10132024
Price: $5.00
Carlsbad, Zoological-Botanical State Park, mule deer
Card has a perforated edge (so was once part of a set), and was mailed in 1973 with 6-cent stamp and full postmark. A little bit of postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10132025
Price: $1.50
Taos Pueblo
Photo by Merilyn Brown on this card mailed in 1997 with the address on a label, two stamps, but only partial postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 10132026
Price: $1.50
Cartoon map
Many years ago it might have been possible to find cards from China mailed in the USA, but with the world as it is now … this card was mailed from China, with two large stamps and Hangzhou postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 10132027
Price: $3.00
Glenwood, Gila National Forest, Whitewater Creek
Unused “local” card 31916 (#780). Grade: 3

Code: 10132028
Price: $1.00
Entering Albuquerque
The caption generously calls this “a broad panorama of the beautiful city of Albuquerque” but for that you need to squint. Mailed in early 1970s with 6-cent stamp and partial postmark. There are significant abrasions on the front. Grade: 5

Code: 10132029
Price: $0.50
Conchas Dam and Reservoir
Linen card, Curteich-Chicago, mailed with two stamps and postmark in 1952. Grade: 3

Code: 10132030
Price: $1.00
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Green Lake
Curteich-Chicago linen card 107 mailed in 1952 with 2-cent stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10132031
Price: $2.00
Santa Fe, Restored Kiva, at Prehistoric Cliff Dwellings, Puye
Old Tichnor linen card, carefully saved and then mailed in 2009 with 28-cent stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 10132032
Price: $2.00
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Totem Pole
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 9B-H948 (and 105) of a 42-foot-high stalagmite. The postcard has aged, but is clean. Grade: 3

Code: 10132033
Price: $2.00
Gallup, Entrance to Kit Carson Cave
Unused H.S. Crocker card BLC-128. Grade: 2

Code: 10132034
Price: $1.00
Greetings from Ruidoso, “On the Road to Monte Cristo”
Unused, unattributed B&W card of artwork by Kathryne Hail Travis. Grade: 1

Code: 10132036
Price: $1.00
Socorro, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Very Large Array
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 10132037
Price: $2.00
Socorro, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, nine antennas
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10132038
Price: $2.00
Socorro, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, transporter
We wonder if postcards like this are even allowed now. Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 10132039
Price: $2.00
Map of New Mexico
Classic New Mexico State Map postcard, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10132040
Price: $2.00
Raton, Goat Hill and El Portal Hotel
Mailed in 1956, with 2-cent stamp and full postmark, this card is especially nostalgic in view of what happened to the El Portal Hotel. The term “star-crossed” really applies, as it was the victim of fires, the final one in 2012 that destroyed the last bits of it. Grade: 2

Code: 10132041
Price: $6.00
I Love Albuquerque
So do we, though after “Breaking Bad” they have some catching up to do in their P.R. Card mailed in 2014, with five different stamps, and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10132042
Price: $1.00

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