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Mt. Baker and San Juan Islands
You would only want this card for the front. It was mailed in 1946; the postmark is there but the stamp is gone, and the writing is fading. Grade: 5

Code: 10148084
Price: $0.50
Spillway, Grand Coulee Dam
Unused Dexter Press “Dextone” card 51767. Grade: 2

Code: 10148085
Price: $1.00
Sunrise, Mt. Rainier National Park
Unused Curteichcolor card 5C-K473 (55-16), showing Sunrise (6,400′) and Mt. Rainier (14,410′). So that’s what they mean by “Sunrise”. Grade: 1

Code: 10148086
Price: $0.50
Mt. Rainier, More than 500 varieties of wildflowers
Unused card issued by The State of Washington and its Junior Chamber of Commerce, “inviting a million visitors to enjoy a wonderful vacation”. Overlaid on the printed caption, a rubber-stamp marking from the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce. In the stamp area, the card says “Please mail to an out-of-state friend or relative”. Grade: 2

Code: 10148087
Price: $3.00
Mt. Rainier, as seen from Sunrise Point
This unused linen Curt Teich card 4A-H1210 would have specially appealed to people who couldn’t think of much to write. The caption on the back, headed “The Greatest Glacial Mountain in the U.S.,” is extraordinarily long and wide-ranging. Grade: 1

Code: 10148088
Price: $2.00
Rainier National Park, Mount Rainier
No shortage of Mount Rainier postcards. At least these folks aren’t wearing their Sunday best clothes, as was so typical on cards from this era. Unused Dexter Press #53761-B (C-580). Grade: 1

Code: 10148089
Price: $0.50
Mt. Rainier National Park, “Where Flowers and Glaciers Meet”
“Gorgeous arrays of wild flowers bloom to the very edge of the Nisqually Glacier” on this Curteichcolor card 5C-K456, unused but with Irma’s name inked into the stamp area. Grade: 3

Code: 10148090
Price: $0.50
Mt. Rainier National Park, Glacier Vista
Unused Curteichcolor card 7C-K369. Grade: 1

Code: 10148091
Price: $1.00
Mt. Rainier, as seen through the Ghost Forest near Longmire
Unused Mike Roberts card C5698, aging but clean. Grade: 1

Code: 10148092
Price: $1.00
Daffodil Fields and Mt. Rainier in the Puyallup Valley
Unused Plastichrome card P1119. It has the rubber-stamp imprint of Puyallup’s Hatch Ranch in the message area. We Googled. The ranch seems to have been “developed” subsequently. Grade: 3

Code: 10148093
Price: $0.50
Mt. Rainier and Tipsoo Lake
Unused Mike Roberts card C570. Grade: 2

Code: 10148094
Price: $0.50
Seattle’s Skyline at Night
Unused Dexter Press card 61269-B, of a view from Queen Anne Hill. Grade: 1

Code: 10148095
Price: $2.00
Grand Coulee Dam at night
Unused card whose caption called this “the world’s largest piece of concrete,” an honour maybe now attributable to the Three Gorges Dam in China … some small inked notations on the back of the card. Grade: 3

Code: 10148096
Price: $0.50
Yakima, Yakima Mall
The Mall closed in 2003. Seems like Valley Mall was too much competition. Unused Smith Western card CT-937, serrated edges and with some aging. Grade: 2

Code: 10148099
Price: $4.00
Spokane expo ’74 World’s Fair, Ford Pavilion
Unused official World’s Fair card, unused, serrated edges, and with a caption explaining that the movie theater inside had an exhibit “telling the story of how portability and mobility have served man’s needs from the beginning of time” (!) There’s a lot more to the caption, too. Grade: 1

Code: 10148101
Price: $2.00
Seattle, Pike Place Market
Here’s a slightly edited entry from Wikipedia: “Pike Place Market … opened on August 17, 1907, and is one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers’ markets in the US. Named after the central street, Pike Place runs northwest from Pike Street to Virginia Street, (is) Seattle’s most popular tourist destination and the 33rd most visited tourist attraction in the world, with more than 10 million annual visitors.” We knew none of this. The card was mailed in 2020 with a round Global Forever stamp, and a significant abrasion on the lower right front corner. Grade: 5

Code: 10148102
Price: $0.50
Seattle, Plaza of States, Space Needle
This facility came up for the 1962 World’s Fair, and the postcard came along shortly afterwards. Unused, Plastichrome, P49456. Quite an international postcard in its own way. Grade: 1

Code: 10148103
Price: $1.00
Spokane, World’s Fair Expo ’74
A card with serrated edges, mailed in 1974 with 10-cent stamp and faint postmark. Mom was having a good time — sort of. Grade: 1

Code: 10148104
Price: $3.00
Mount Rainier and Stevens Canyon Road at Reflection Lake
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10148105
Price: $1.00
Tacoma, Lake Cushman and Cushman Dam
There are actually two Cushman Dams, but we don’t know which one this is. Unused Dexter Press card 29472-B (C-420), showing its age now. Grade: 2

Code: 10148106
Price: $2.00
Mt. Baker and San Juan Islands
Old E.C. Kropp card 15343 (P87) in beautiful condition. The florid caption makes you want to drop everything and rush there. Grade: 1

Code: 10148107
Price: $3.00
Mount Rainier from Observation Point
… that observation point being on the highway to Sunrise Park. This is unused Dexter Press postcard 17384-B. Grade: 1

Code: 10148108
Price: $2.00
Fishing in the Snoqualmie
Unused Plastichrome card P6229, with a scene in the pools below Snoqualmie Falls and Lodge (which, by the way, is now the Salish Lodge and Spa). Grade: 1

Code: 10148109
Price: $1.00
Olympic National Park, Lake Crescent from Lake Crescent Lodge
Unused card 40589 published by National Park Concessions. The lodge itself was built in 1915, and still there, but at the time we’re typing this, it’s “temporarily closed”. We’re guessing that’s just seasonal. Grade: 1

Code: 10148110
Price: $1.00
Seattle, Kinnear Park
Nice if slightly uninspiring old Pacific Novelty Co. postcard W-29. Grade: 1

Code: 10148111
Price: $2.00

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