North Dakota – Global Postcard Sales

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Grand Forks, Greetings
Unused Curt Teich card 4B-H1097 from 1950’s, linen finish and aged, with some staining and a travel agent’s black rubber stamp on reverse. Don’t confuse this older card with the newer 10135002. Grade: 4

Code: 10135001
Price: $3.50
Grand Forks, Greetings
Two of these unused cards are available, different from the older 10135001. These have glossy finish and a different Curt Teich index number (9C-K2083). Actually each of these two comes from a different print run also. Both are from the early 1970s. One has significant mottling on reverse and noticeable creasing on lower left front corner (Grade: 4, $2.50). The other looks much newer, though it’s not (Grade: 1, $4)

Code: 10135002
Price: $4.00
Greater Grand Forks
Curteichcolor card 9C-K2872 (also CK-351) from the 1970s. Two unused cards are available, slow mellowing on reverse, perfect fronts (Grades: 1, $3) while one other was mailed in 1991 and has stamp and postmark, but also a big mess of postmark and other marks on the front (Grade: 5, $.50).

Code: 10135003
Price: $3.00
T. Roosevelt Nat. Park – burning coal vein
From 1970s, this unused Curteichcolor card 8DK-170 showing a fire that started in 1972. We wonder… Grade: 1

Code: 10135004
Price: $3.00
Mandan, Ft. Lincoln State Park
Unused Curteichcolor card 9DK-614 from the 1970s. Aging so slowly on reverse, Grade: 1

Code: 10135005
Price: $3.00
Greetings (map)
Unused 1970s Dexter Press card DR-61003-B, showing such diverse places and things as Rugby, Grand Forks, Fargo, and Lignite. Sure, those are keywords!! Mellowing on reverse but otherwise as-new. Grade: 1

Code: 10135006
Price: $4.00
Jamestown, largest buffalo
This unused 1970s card is perfect for your growing collection of old buffalos. Has index # S-79270 and also #175, and it’s aging on reverse but otherwise undamaged. Grade: 1

Code: 10135007
Price: $3.00
International Peace Garden
Suppose this unused 1970s card can also be listed under “Canada” but it was published (in Montana) in the USA and represents North Dakota and Manitoba. So there! Aging enough on reverse to downgrade it by one number, but otherwise in fine shape. Grade: 2

Code: 10135008
Price: $4.00
Greetings
Unused Curteichcrom card 9C-K2084 from Gaulke News Agency, aging a bit but otherwise in very good shape. It looks like they were struggling to find 11 interesting things in North Dakota! Grade: 1

Code: 10135009
Price: $3.50
Mandan, Ft. Lincoln, earth lodges
Unused Curteichcolor card 9DK-613 from the 1970s. Probably hasn’t changed a lot since then, but we haven’t been there lately, either. Grade: 1

Code: 10135010
Price: $3.00
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Card was mailed from Billings, MT in 1994 and has the full postmark and a 40-cent stamp. Shows just a little bit of having been in the mail. Grade: 2

Code: 10135011
Price: $4.50
Grand Forks, Univ. of North Dakota
We visited again recently, and the campus is a lot more modern now–but if you live there, you know that already. This unused Curteichcolor card 6DK-1783 from the 1960s is yellowing a little on the reverse but otherwise unmarked. Grade: 2

Code: 10135012
Price: $4.00
Bismarck, state capitol
Card is from the 1960s, unused, beginning to age, and published by NMN Inc. J12906. Grade: 2

Code: 10135013
Price: $3.50
Rugby, geographical center of N. America
We’ve always wondered how they measure the geographical center of an irregularly shaped land mass. Let’s hope they got this right, unlike Four Corners. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10135015
Price: $4.00
Grafton, Stan’s Cafe and Greyhound
Stan’s Cafe closed years ago. Greyhound, and this card, live on. Unmailed card has the date “Oct. 2, 1957” inked in on the back, together with a travel agent’s rubber stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 10135016
Price: $4.00
Grand Forks, John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge
Two of these unused cards from the 1960s are available, with identical photos on the fronts but very very minor differences on the backs. Both are Curteichcolor / Gaulke News Agency card 4DK-1366. One is printed in green and does not say “Printed in Ireland.” The other is printed in black, and does. Grades: 1

Code: 10135017
Price: $2.00
Grand Forks, De Mers Avenue Looking Eeast
Unmailed linen card, a similar view of De Mers Ave. from the previous one. Front is in good condition; reverse has a travel agent’s rubber stamp mark. Grade: 4

Code: 10135019
Price: $4.00
Grand Forks, Sorlie Bridge
A bridge that survives floods. Unmailed card but with travel agent’s rubber stamp on reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 10135020
Price: $1.00
Grand Forks, Westward Ho Motel
Once upon a time, this was THE place to stay in Grand Forks. Maybe it still is; we’re not sure. Unused card from the 1950s, marked on the reverse by a large rubber stamp from a travel agent. Grade: 4

Code: 10135021
Price: $3.00
Bad-Lands, Kneeling Camel
Unused card 13655N-AIL. Grade: 2

Code: 10135022
Price: $2.00
Bad-Lands, Cedar Canyon from Highway
Unused card 17911N-AIL. Pencilled notation in the message area on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 10135023
Price: $1.00
Greetings from North Dakota
Unmailed large letter card with an inked message on the reverse. The caption identifies each of the scenes in DAKOTA. Aged, and heavily handled and loved over the years. Grade: 4

Code: 10135024
Price: $4.00
Cairn at International Peace Garden, North Dakota-Manitoba Border
Unused Tichnor card K-7786, with the cairn’s full text in the caption. Grade: 2

Code: 10135025
Price: $2.00
International Peace Garden, corner stone
From a series of similar unmailed cards, each with inked and/or small pencil notations on the back. This one (CB-121) shows a Corner stone of freedom presented to Canada by Indiana Limestone Centinnial (sic). Grade: 4

Code: 10135026
Price: $1.00
International Peace Garden, Part of the Formal Area
From a series of similar unmailed cards, each with inked and/or small pencil notations on the back. This one (Dexter Press 29503-B) shows the sunken garden, Terrace Panel, and Peace Panel. Grade: 4

Code: 10135027
Price: $1.00
International Peace Garden, Formal Area in foreground
From a series of similar unmailed cards, each with inked and/or small pencil notations on the back. This one (Dexter Press 29501-B) shows the panoramic view looking north into the Garden. Grade: 4

Code: 10135028
Price: $1.00
International Peace Garden, The Sunken Garden
From a series of similar unmailed cards, each with inked and/or small pencil notations on the back. This one (Dexter Press 29504-B) shows the Sunken Garden, Terrace Panel and Peace Panel, looking South-East into the Garden. Grade: 4

Code: 10135029
Price: $1.00
International Peace Garden, Scene from the formal area
From a series of similar unmailed cards, each with inked and/or small pencil notations on the back. This one (Dexter Press 74059) explains that the Garden is in the Turtle Mountains. Grade: 4

Code: 10135030
Price: $1.00
International Peace Garden, View of Formal Area
From a series of similar unmailed cards, each with inked and/or small pencil notations on the back. This one (Dexter Press 96698) explains that this view looks North into the Garden. Grade: 4

Code: 10135031
Price: $1.00
International Peace Garden, Panoramic View
Ending a series of similar unmailed cards, each with inked and/or small pencil notations on the back. This one (Dexter Press 29502-B) looks North-West into the Garden. Grade: 4

Code: 10135032
Price: $1.00
Stony Point, Bad Lands, Sentinel Butte
An ancient, unused, real-photo card with one corner tip missing. You can find more beautiful cards but you’ll never find a more authentic one. Grade: 4

Code: 10135033
Price: $3.00
Petrified Stump in Badlands
If you go to Google, you might be surprised how many petrified stumps there are. We were. Well, here’s one of them, from a photographer in Dickinson on a real-photo unused card. Thumbtack hole through the top. Grade: 4

Code: 10135034
Price: $2.00
Cathedral Buttes, North Dakota Badlands
Unused linen card, heavily handled over the years. Grade: 4

Code: 10135035
Price: $0.50
Horseshoe Bend on Highway 85, North Dakota Badlands
Written and mailed in 1940, the stamp is long gone and only a small part of the postmark is there. Grade: 5

Code: 10135036
Price: $0.50
Bismarck, State Capitol Building
Unused card that clearly sets this structure far away from traditional state capitol designs. No extra writing, but a heavily aged streak along the reverse left edge. Grade: 3

Code: 10135037
Price: $1.00
Greetings from North Dakota
Unused E.C. Kropp large letter card 12191N-C.M.15 with lots of good information in the caption. Grade: 1

Code: 10135038
Price: $3.00
Fort Union Trading Post
On your first look at this unused card, you might straightaway think “military” but the caption goes out of its way to explain that this is not so: “Established in 1828, this site was not a military installation, but a genuine trading post designed to do business with Plains Indians.” Grade: 1

Code: 10135039
Price: $2.00
Rugby, Geographical Center of North America
Well, maybe not quite. Since our last card about Rugby a few years ago (see 10135015), someone did some re-measuring. One online entry says “pinpointed the geographic center of North America to be in North Dakota’s Pierce County, about 16 miles southwest of Rugby, 5.2 miles north of Orrin, and 6 miles west of Balta,” so there you go. Unused “local” card. Grade: 1

Code: 10135040
Price: $2.00
Greetings from Fargo
Unused, classic, original, linen, large letter postcard from Curteich-Chicago 2B-H1232. Grade: 1

Code: 10135041
Price: $2.00
Fargo, Agriculture College
Unused linen postcard 6A-H1058 (F-22) from Curteich-Chicago. The school’s name formally changed to North Dakota State University in 1950, and no, we won’t call it “Moo U”. Grade: 1

Code: 10135042
Price: $2.00

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