Wisconsin – Global Postcard Sales

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Port Edwards, The Paper Inn
The card was mailed in 1954. Stamp is gone and the card can only be a space-filler. Grade: 5

Code: 10150001
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee, Mader’s German Restaurant
Cute card issued by the restaurant and picked up in 1954–the date is pencilled in on the reverse, along with a travel agent’s rubber stamp. Unused otherwise. Well, we didn’t know what kalbshaxen was, either. Grade: 4

Code: 10150002
Price: $4.50
Milwaukee, Mader’s German Restaurant
Card was issued by the restaurant and collected in 1954, as the date and an agent’s rubber stamp are on the reverse. The front of the card is in great shape and if you have fond memories of this restaurant, this card is right up your alley. Grade: 4

Code: 10150003
Price: $4.50
Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin Carillon Tower
From the 1960s, unused Fagan Publishing card 14309. Just slightly aging. Grade: 2

Code: 10150004
Price: $3.00
Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin, Coll. of Agriculture
Sitting in Hong Kong and looking at this postcard, it is hard to believe we actually spent part of a summer in this picture, but it did happen. The card is unused Fagan Publishing card 16060, from the 1960s. Grade: 2

Code: 10150005
Price: $3.00
Milwaukee, Univ. of Wisconsin, aerial view
Unused but slightly aging card from the 1960s, from L.L. Cook Co. with two reference numbers: 345Z and 81741. Grade: 2

Code: 10150007
Price: $3.00
Milwaukee, Univ. of Wisconsin, Main Building
From the series, another unused 1960s card (printed date 1959) by L.L. Cook Co., 26676-B and 261Z as reference numbers. Grade: 2

Code: 10150008
Price: $3.00
Milwaukee, Univ. of Wisconsin, Bolton Hall
Unused L.L. Cook card 426-C and 351-Z (why do they do this?) from the 1960s. Bolton Hall is/was the Social Sciences Building and we spent a lot of time there. The card is mottling heavily on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10150009
Price: $3.00
Milwaukee, Univ. of Wisconsin, Student Union
L.L. Cook unused card 427-C (and 352-Z) from the 1960s. There are abrasions on the front, and aging on reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10150010
Price: $2.50
Milwaukee, Univ. of Wisconsin, Mitchell Hall
The last in our 1960s series from this university. Unused L.L. Cook Co. card 425-C and 350-Z. Grade: 2

Code: 10150011
Price: $3.00
Madison, state capitol
Unused L.L. Cook card 48206 and 289Z dated 1954 and revised in 1961, though it is heavily aged on the reverse and a bit dull on the front. The caption has some interesting trivia points about the dome. Grade: 4

Code: 10150012
Price: $3.00
Madison, state capitol, tulip time
Nice unused 1960s Fagan Publishing Co. card 19464. Grade: 1

Code: 10150013
Price: $4.00
Tomah, Castle Rock
From the 1950s, an unmailed card but heavily handled and abraded, with pencilled notes and a travel agent’s black rubber stamp on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 10150014
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee, Horticultural Conservatory
Unused L.L. Cook Co. card 51807-B (and 197Z) from the 1960s, of this Horticultural Conservatory in Mitchell Park. Based on the caption, the structure was not yet finished when the picture was taken. Grade: 1

Code: 10150015
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee, Schlitz Brown Bottle Guest Hall
We admit to having spent some pleasant times in here during the 1960s (that long ago?) and greatly appreciating the hospitality. We’d love to go back. Schlitz card C-4B from 1963 was mailed from Milwaukee with a postage meter in 1966. Grade: 2

Code: 10150017
Price: $4.00
Milwaukee Public Museum, saloon
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10150018
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee Public Museum, dry goods store
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10150019
Price: $1.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, Apotheke
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10150020
Price: $1.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, Grand Avenue
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10150021
Price: $1.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, more Grand Avenue
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10150022
Price: $1.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, Kuhm General Store
The last of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10150023
Price: $1.50
West Allis, Allis-Chalmers
Captioned “The New Look,” they made a darned good effort to hide it in this night photo. Unused L.L. Cook card 7405-C card from the 1960s, aging significantly. Grade: 2

Code: 10150024
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee River
Nice L.L. Cook card 81719 (and 209Z), 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10150025
Price: $2.00
Milwaukee, water purification plant
The building is made from native sandstone. Now you know. L.L. Cook card 7C-K2270 (and 107Z) from the 1960s. Somehow we have two of these, both unused. One is Grade: 2 ($1) and the other is Grade: 3 ($0.50).

Code: 10150026
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee, War Memorial Center
This Memorial, overlooking Lake Michigan, has a commemorative mosaic covering World War Two and the Korean War. Or it did at the time this unused card was printed. Grade: 2

Code: 10150027
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee, view of Lake Michigan
The actual caption on this unused L.L. Cook card 60944-B from the 1960s is “View of the Lake Front”, specifically “Beautiful Milwaukee Bay,” but we thought we’d clarify. Grade: 2

Code: 10150028
Price: $2.00
Milwaukee, War Memorial Center
Substantially different view from card #10150027. The War Memorial Center housed the Milwaukee Art center and is an Eero Saarinen building. This unused L.L. Cook card 16036-B (and 310Z) dates from 1961. Grade: 1

Code: 10150030
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee, Emil Blatz Temple of Music
From the 1960s, unused L.L. Cook card 1DK-2047 (and 313Z). Grade: 1

Code: 10150031
Price: $1.00
Wisconsin Dells, Chimney Rock
We have two of these. The front of the first, unmailed card, dated 1957, is OK. The reverse is a mess of handwriting and rubber stamp marks (Grade: 4, $0.50). The second one is also unmailed and unmarked except for a 1980 date written above the caption (Grade: 3, $1).

Code: 10150032
Price: $1.00
Stockholm, Mississippi River
This card was constructed from a normal photo and blank reverse, onto which a seven-line caption was rubber-stamped. Then the card was mailed, in 1990, with full Stockholm (WI) postmark and 36-cent Sikorsky airmail stamp. There is some staining on the front upper left corner. Grade: 3

Code: 10150033
Price: $3.00
Green Bay, National Railroad Museum
Proudly mailed in 1975 by a very, very young child, from Green Bay with a mostly-legible postmark and an 8-cent Eisenhower stamp. It’s the Wisconsin & Yesterday R.R. Serious abrasions on front. Grade: 5

Code: 10150034
Price: $0.50
Green Bay, aerial view
Walnut Street Bridge is in the lower foreground. The card was mailed in 1975, with postmark and 8-cent Eisenhower stamp. Creased lower left front corner. Grade: 3

Code: 10150035
Price: $2.00
Green Bay, Lambeau Field
Mailed in 1975 with postmark and 8-cent stamp, the message is poignant and not altogether consistent with a postcard of a football field. But the Green Bay Packers won the day. Grade: 1

Code: 10150036
Price: $3.00
Milwaukee, Miller Brewing, Stockhouse “F”
The Champagne of Bottle Beer. Unused Miller card J1626 from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 10150038
Price: $2.00
Milwaukee, government pier
We can find a couple of references to this card through Google; we just can’t find it for sale anywhere else. Full details: V.O. Hammon Publishing Co. (Chicago) card 810, unused, and very old. It’s held up well generally. There is a crease through the left side. Grade: 3

Code: 10150039
Price: $11.00
Breakers on Lake Superior
Mailed in 1983 with partial postmark and 28-cent Blanche Scott airmail stamp. Some postmark smudging on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10150040
Price: $1.00
Madison, Mid-View Apartment Motel
Two of these unused linen cards are available. Each has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the reverse. The front of one is perfect (Grade: 4, $6.00) while the front of the other has an X below the room the original owner must have stayed in (Grade: 4, $2). The motel itself? Long gone.

Code: 10150041
Price: $6.00
Tomah, Pleasant Acres Court
Google says this motel is still there. We hope it looks different now, because, honestly and with no malice at all, this has to be one of the bleakest postcards ever made. Two of these unmailed cards are available, identical conditions. Each has an X over the room the writer used, and the reverse has the dates of stay (in 1957) along with a travel agency rubber stamp. Just out of principle we give this a low grade but if you buy the card you will have a great addition to your collection of most unappealing views. Grades: 5

Code: 10150042
Price: $3.00
Milwaukee, Miller Brewing Co. Stockhouse “F”
Mailed in 1966 from Milwaukee with a postage meter. Grade: 1

Code: 10150043
Price: $2.00
Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin air view
Card mailed in 1966 with four one-cent stamps (three were cancelled) and illegible postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 10150044
Price: $2.50

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