Tobacco – Global Postcard Sales

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Flue-cured tobacco
Unused, from 1960s, though as long as tobacco grows, it will look like this. Grade: 2

Code: 35400001
Price: $1.00
Pipe and tobaco “Lao” (sic) (Vietnam)
Card was mailed in Malaysia in 1995. It has two Malaysian stamps and mostly legible postmark, as well as affixed blue airmail sticker. Front is in excellent condition. Grade: 3

Code: 35400002
Price: $5.00
Picturesque tobacco barns (North Carolina)
On the front, it’s the barn that’s picturesque. On the reverse, the caption says it’s the state that’s picturesque. You can vote … Unused card, Grade: 1

Code: 35400003
Price: $1.00

Aboriginal No Smoking (Australia)

Four cards from 1996 are available. Reverse says PITJANTJATJARA, the name and language of an Aboriginal people of Central Australia. These two words for “no smoking” may be the only two words you will know in that language. These were never mailed, and are beginning to age on reverse. One is Grade: 2 ($4), and three are Grade: 3 ($3.50).

Code: 35400004

Price: $4.00

Golden Bat cigarettes (Japan)
Advertising card for this old but re-launched cigarette brand, mailed from Tokyo (Meguro) in 2000 with four stamps and two postmarks. There is some postmark smudge on the front as well. Grade: 3

Code: 35400005
Price: $4.00
Burning Camel
Four of these Camel cigarette advertising cards are available. We think they say “never throw a burning camel out the window,” or the Greek equivalent. Two of the cards are unused (Grades: 1, $5 each). Two were mailed: one from Malaysia with an uncancelled stamp in 1997, and one from Hong Kong in 2000 with full postmark. Those two have some postmark smudging on the front (Grades: 2, $3 each).

Code: 35400006
Price: $5.00
Camel cigarettes, Spain

This might mean “handsome Ponte, tonight we have an appointment,” or maybe not. Our Spanish ability is not so good. Nine of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 35400008
Price: $2.00
Do your cigarettes taste different?
Three of these cards are available. One was mailed in late 1980s, in USA, with three stamps and nearly-full postmark (Grade: 1, $4). The other two were never mailed: one is Grade 1 ($3) and the other is Grade 2 ($2).

Code: 35400009
Price: $3.00
Harvesting tobacco
Unused Dexter Press card DT-8486-C from 1966. Grade: 1

Code: 35400010
Price: $1.00
Tobacco auctioneer
Unused Dexter Press card 79066 from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 35400011
Price: $1.00
Harvesting tobacco (USA)
Mailed in 1970 from Bamberg, SC with 6-cent stamp. Stains on reverse don’t affect the message. Grade: 3

Code: 35400012
Price: $3.50
Stop Smoking (Hong Kong)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 35400013
Price: $1.00
Yao village, man smoking pipe (Laos)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 35400014
Price: $9.00
A Lancaster County Tobacco Field (Pennsylvania, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 0C-H1668 (maybe). Grade: 2

Code: 35400015
Price: $2.00
Akha Hilltribe (Thailand)
Specifically, “Happiness of old Akha hilltribe, in the North.” She looks happy. Let’s assume it’s tobacco. Unused card from 2012. Grade: 1

Code: 35400016
Price: $3.00
Macau sem Fumo, Vida Saudavel! (set)
Direct from Correios de Macau (the Post Office), we have two unused sets of six artistic and graphic anti-smoking cards as designed by school students and issued by the Government. They are in a fold-out cover, bilingual in Chinese and Portuguese. Grade: 1

Code: 35400017
Price: $20.00
A New Era of Smoke-free Macao
Five of these unused 5-3/4″ x 7-3/8″ advertising cards, issued through the Macau Post Office, are available. And what are they advertising? A new issue of stamps, of course. Two of the five cards have an extra blue pseudo-postmark added to the reverse, at the post office ($6). The other three lack this extra chop ($4). Grades: 1

Code: 35400018
Price: $4.00
Andrea Pazienza (Italy)
Mailed from Italy in 2012 with E0.60 stamp, Milan postmark, and orange postal barcoding on the reverse. There’s postmarking on the front also. Grade: 3

Code: 35400019
Price: $1.00
Marijuana (Ukraine)
Around the world in one trip … the card originated in the Ukraine and was mailed from Belarus in 2011 with stamp and full Minsk postmark, along with bilingual Prioritaire rubber-stamp chop mark. And now it’s here. And it can go to where you are. And yes, we know it is not “tobacco”. Grade: 2

Code: 35400020
Price: $3.00
A long smoke
An old photo on a contemporary card mailed from the USA in 2012 with $1.05 stamp and readable postmark. Black postal barcoding on the reverse, and orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 35400021
Price: $1.00
Amsterdam, Coffee Shop
Ahem, not just a coffee shop, and not only tobacco, either. Card mailed in 2012 with three different stamps, postmark, and Priority label. Minor postal creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 35400022
Price: $4.00
Dont’s — for Wives
Very, very heavily aged and handled card, mailed in 1912 with stamp and Duluth MN postmark, and proving that some humour really is timeless. Well … Grade: 4

Code: 35400023
Price: $7.00
Multiple views (Netherlands)
One of our more eye-catching contemporary cards, that’s for sure, and would entertain every postman along the way. Mailed in 2012 from Amsterdam, with two stamps, part of the postmark, and blue Priority label affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 35400024
Price: $5.00
San Francisco, Haight Street scenes
A card for many categories. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 35400025
Price: $5.00
Ybor Square, Tampa (Florida)
…in Tampa’s Latin Quarter, and once the world’s largest cigar factory, built in 1886. Status right now? Uncertain. Unused card. Grade: 3

Code: 35400026
Price: $1.00
I’m on your trail (USA)
With an old card in this aged and heavily handled condition, we guess you just need to look past the imperfections and decide if you like the concept. Mailed in 1913 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 35400027
Price: $1.00
Head of Village (Indonesia)
Unused KH postcard JF-428. Grade: 1

Code: 35400028
Price: $2.00
Dark Beer (Taiwan)
A label from the 1950s and 1960s on a card mailed in 2013 with two stamps and Taipei postmark. Purple bilingual airmail chop also appears. Some postal ink transfer on the front. Look closely, and you’ll see why we include this in the “Tobacco” category. Grade: 3

Code: 35400029
Price: $2.00
The Limon Martini
Unused ad card, beginning to age. Grade: 2

Code: 35400031
Price: $2.00
100th Birthday of Deng Xiao Ping (set of two) (DPR Korea)
Set of two unused cards from 2004, captioned only in Korean with Deng’s name (등소평) and each with an impressively large photographic pre-printed stamp also showing Deng. Reminder: these cards were issued by DPR Korea, not by PR China. Grades: 1

Code: 35400032
Price: $12.00
Greetings from Waterford (ON), typical tobacco farm scene
Mailed in 2014, with stamp, postmark, and blue Air Mail sticker. Grade: 1

Code: 35400033
Price: $2.00
Cuban Cigars
Unused Nouvelles Images card PHC 1624 (and S 12 H). Grade: 1

Code: 35400034
Price: $2.00
Hain’t never seen a man who could fish and worry at the same time
Unused Petley Laff Card C-119. Some sort of streak in the address area. Grade: 2

Code: 35400035
Price: $2.00
Buenos Aires, Vista Nocturna, Av. 9 de Julio, Obelisco
Unused, aging 4″ x 7-1/8″ card. We list this under “Tobacco” for what should be two obvious reasons. Grade: 2

Code: 35400036
Price: $3.00
Winston-Salem, Whitaker Park, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Born in 1961, died in 2011, the Whitaker Park facility may once have been the world’s largest cigarette manufacturing plant. No more. Unused card, some smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 35400037
Price: $1.00
Having the breast time in Birmingham, AL (USA)
They produced this, not us! Unused card extolling self examination for the link between smoking and cancer. Grade: 1

Code: 35400038
Price: $1.00
Medellin, Compania Colombiana de Tabaco (Colombia)
Unused, heavily aged card. Grade: 3

Code: 35400039
Price: $3.00
Greetings from South Carolina, map
Unused Dexter Press card 5S-25039-B. Lots of statistics and info in the caption. Look closely and you’ll see tobacco in there. An older card, still Grade: 1

Code: 35400040
Price: $5.00
Richmond, Philip Morris Operations Center (Virginia, USA)
Not postally used, but we must explain that the person who got this card originally must have taken the factory tour and–at that time–received a sticky label to identify them along the tour. At the end, (s)he stuck that label onto the back of the card. This was in 1978. Does it help or hurt the card? Up to you. Grade: 4

Code: 35400042
Price: $1.00
Three Cats cigarettes (PR China)
Unused card from a series called “1930’s Shanghai Calendar Girls,” but please do note these are new, contemporary postcards. Grade: 1

Code: 35400043
Price: $1.00

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This might mean “handsome Ponte, tonight we have an appointment,” or maybe not. Our Spanish ability is not so good. Nine of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1