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Cape Meares Light House, Oregon Coast
The caption writer on this unused Curteichcolor card 2DK-1728 (and PC.163) was running out of ideas, but it’s a distinctive and unusual photo. Grade: 1
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Umpqua Lighthouse State Park
Unused Smith Western, Inc., card S-1548-3 (and K-273), aging. Grade: 2
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Coos Bay, Scenic Cape Arago Light
Two unused Smith-Western Co. Plastichrome cards P22526 (and K-1592) are available, mildly aging (Grades: 1, $3). Another card, mailed in 1966 with stamp and partial postmark, is also available (Grade: 1, $3).
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Oregon Sawmill
Unused Plastichrome postcard P32635 (K3), very heavily aged and mottled on the reverse. The caption explains everything, which helps. Grade: 4
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Cape Blanco Light House, Oregon Coast
Unused Curteichcolor card 7DK-1570 (and PC.129B). Grade: 1
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Glimpse of an Oregon Forest
The caption appears at the bottom front of the card: hard to see, but it’s there. As for the card itself, mailed in 1909 with stamp and full sending/receiving office postmarks. A nice example of a very old vintage postcard. Grade: 2
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Logging in Oregon
Two unused Plastichrome cards P6230B (K-11) of one log of 14,000 board feet passing between two railroad flatcars. Grades: 1
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Giant Fir Log
This photo has been used by at least four different postcard publishers (including Dexter Press #59052), and we know this because we have examples from all of them, ten cards in total. The colours vary slightly according to print run. Captions are the same except for one thing: some say “Oregon” only, while others say “Oregon and Washington.” One of our cards was mailed in 1958, with three-cent stamp and postmark (Grade: 1, $2) and all the others are unused Grades 1 or 2 ($1).
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Greetings from Oregon
Unused but aging E.C. Kropp large-letter card 10562-P49, with each of the six sites identified in the reverse caption. Grade: 2
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Heceta in Head, Arrow Point & Light
The writer of this card–mailed in 1908 with stamp and full postmark–had so much to say. Apart from the address, the reverse is full of message everywhere, and as you can see, on to the front as well. Though the lighthouse takes second place to all the message, the card in all represents this little window into the past. Grade: 4
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Heceta in Head, Arrow Point & Light (faded)
Other than the message (a different sender, same year–1908), this card on the reverse is printed the same as 10138051 but the front photo is so completely different in colour that we list them separately. We don’t know if this was the result of different print runs, or fading, or what. Grade: 3
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Cape Blanco Lighthouse
Unused card of this lighthouse built in 1870. A date is inked on the upper left reverse. Grade: 3
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Cape Foulweather Light House, view from Pacific Ocean
Classic, vintage lighthouse postcard mailed in 1911 with stamp and postmark and happy message. We will forever wonder whether the writer was elated because (s)he had come down to 120 pounds or finally gone up to that weight. Grade: 3
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Newport, Cape Foulweather
Mailed in 1914 with “Balboa” stamp and full Portland postmark. Grade: 3
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Eugene Loan & Savings Bank, October 1910 calendar
Mailed in 1910 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Tillamook Head Lighthouse – Oregon Coast
We’re not sure what happened here, but the card has a 3-cent “Ordinance of 1787” commemorative stamp with part of a postmark, but nothing else handwritten on the reverse. Significant fading on the reverse as well. Front is fine. Grade: 4
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Tillamook Lighthouse
The name of the town is written on the front of this otherwise unused card. Something we’ve not seen before: taking up more than half of the message section, there is a large silver panel that reminds us of lottery tickets where one might “scratch and win”. This is definitely not a lottery ticket, and nobody has tried to scratch it off–yet. To be safe, we grade this: Grade: 5
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Tillamook Rock and Lighthouse
Not postally used, but with address written in, and sent or handed over by a laconic “Papa”. Grade: 4
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Gillnetting – Columbia River
This B&W card from the Portland Chamber of Commerce was not postally used but has a long message occupying the entire reverse. Grade: 4
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Yaquina Light House, Yaquina Head (989)
Two of these C.T. Art-Colortone linen cards 7A-H41 are available, more or less the same on the front (one has a slightly whiter border) and with slightly different attributions on the back. One was mailed in 1938 with stamp and postmark, the other in 1939 in the same condition. Grades: 1
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Yaquina Head, Oregon Coast
Three of these unused cards are available. Though aging slightly, still Grades: 1
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Cannon Beach, Tillamook Lighthouse
Mailed in August, 1941, with stamp and large postmark. The message is faded but definitely of the era. Grade: 2
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Cape Blanco Light House
Unused Wesley Andrews card 2A184 (965). Grade: 1
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Umpqua Light House, Oregon Coast Highway
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone/Wesley Andrews linen card 7A-H3958. Grade: 1
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Portland, Meier & Frank Co.
Unused Mike Roberts card C8426 from the late 1950s. Interesting note in the caption: “Has world’s longest continuous Escalator system.” Grade: 2
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Mt. Hood and Trailways Bus
Unused and with multiple abrasions all over the reverse, from having been in an album. The caption is readable, though. Grade: 4
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Tillamook Light House, Oregon Coast Highway
We will describe this as accurately as we can, even if we don’t understand it. Linen C.T. Art-Colortone/Wesley Andrews card 8A-H78 (464) with no message or address or extra writing on the back–but there is a 3-cent “Boulder Dam 1935” stamp pasted upside down in the correct area, and that stamp has a few faint lines of postmark on it. Yet clearly the card was not mailed “as-is.” Grade: 4
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Oregon Coast, Heceta Head Lighthouse
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Yaquina Bay Lighthouse
Unused Mike Roberts card 6542G. Grade: 1
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Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Oregon Coast
Mailed in 1985 with 14-cent stamp and postmark. Serrated edges. Grade: 3
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Oregon Coast Lighthouse(s)
They are plural on the back of the card. Mailed in 2013 with four different stamps and readable postmark, the card has a caption identifying each one of these facilities. That’s nice, and makes it more valuable. Grade: 1
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Yaquina Head Lighthouse
Our aggregation of lighthouse postcards includes a few, scattered around the world, where a great many years separate the first card from the most recent. Yaquina Head is one of those. This card was mailed in 2013 with four stamps and partial postmark, and happily the orange postal barcoding blends right into the orange background. Grade: 2
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Interstate Bridge
Specifically, ovr the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Not postally used, but with much of the message area taken up with a notation. Dexter Press DT-58457-C, dated 1969. Grade: 4
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Boatload of Salmon
Unused Mike Roberts card C785, aged, of “One of the valuable commercial assets of the Oregon Coast.” Grade: 3
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Newport, Oregon State University, “Eightball” the octopus
Unused card 76167-C (OSU-115) of a “friendly octopus” at the OSU Marine Science Center. If he was here in Hong Kong, his nickname would have been “tasty,” not “friendly.” The card is unused, and though we think that white area on the top front is part of the card, we are not 100% sure it’s not an abrasion, so we are being conservative with Grade: 4.
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Portland, Hibernia Savings Bank, July 1910 Calendar
The text is fun to read, especially about being open on Saturday Evenings. This card has an address typed on the undivided back, and was mailed, though there’s no stamp or postmark because it was the Bulk Mail of its time. Grade: 1
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Oregon Timber
Unused, aged card. Grade: 2
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Forest of Oregon Timber, Reached Via Union Pacific System
Unused card whose reverse is arguably more interesting than the front, due to the prominence of Union Pacific’s logo and text. Grade: 1
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Oregon “Toothpicks”, from an Oregon Forest
Sharp-eyed customers will be able to compare this card (Oregon) with the identical picture from Washington (10148052) and “Northwest” (40300004), not to mention 10148051 as well. They got an awful lot of mileage out of a generic photo. Unused Wesley Andrews card 29989. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Oregon, “The Big Timber State”
Don’t think Oregon is only about wood and lighthouses, though our postcard selection makes it look that way. This is an unused yet very heavily aged Plastichrome card P31941. Grade: 3