Showing 881–920 of 982 postcards

  • Sending love from Hong Kong (A)

    We must be oblique here.  Several Hong Kong people tried to leave the territory and were apprehended and held in PRC.  This and some other cards are unused, but on the reverse is the address where a sympathetic writer could send a message to the facility in Shenzhen where they are/were being held.  The situation of course is fluid, but the cards are not.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308899

    Price: $3.00

    Sending love from Hong Kong (A)
  • Sending love from Hong Kong (B)

    See our description for #20308899.  Unused.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308900

    Price: $3.00

    Sending love from Hong Kong (B)
  • #Save 12

    We’ll call this a postcard (unused) though the reverse is blank.  It refers to an incident we’ve described earlier, and we’ll leave it to you to find out more.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308901

    Price: $3.00

    #Save 12
  • The Autumn of Our Discontent

    Forgive our liberties.  Unused card, blank on the reverse, using Mid-Autumn Festival as a reference point for other events you probably know well by now.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308902

    Price: $4.00

    The Autumn of Our Discontent
  • O Christmas Tree

    Unused card, blank on the reverse, commemorating recent events.  No, we’re not also going to list this under “Christmas” which went by almost without notice in Hong Kong in 2020 anyway.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308903

    Price: $4.00

    O Christmas Tree
  • Skyline

    Unused card, blank reverse, a work in progress for the “12” in question.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308904

    Price: $3.00

    Skyline
  • The Christmas Pig

    Unused, and blank on the reverse.  You won’t be able to see it clearly in the scan, but the crystal ball held by pig contains a Christmas tree emblazoned with “Stand with” Hong Kong.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308905

    Price: $3.00

    The Christmas Pig
  • Come Back Home – Merry Christmas (A)

    Actual (unused) postcard with pre-printed address to which sympathisers could theoretically mail messages of support to persons being held in Shenzhen.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308906

    Price: $4.00

    Come Back Home – Merry Christmas (A)
  • Come Back Home – Merry Christmas (B)

    Actual (unused) postcard with pre-printed address to which sympathisers could theoretically mail messages of support to persons being held in Shenzhen.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308907

    Price: $4.00

    Come Back Home – Merry Christmas (B)
  • Hong Kong Disneyland – 15th Anniversary – Operation Santa Claus (A)

    One of two postcard variants Disney issued in 2020 to celebrate its 15th anniversary (even while the park was closed) and to generate proceeds for a local charity called Operation Santa Claus.  These were really hard to get.  Card measures 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″, and for good reasons can only be a very limited edition.  Unused.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308908

    Price: $9.00

    Hong Kong Disneyland – 15th Anniversary – Operation Santa Claus (A)
  • Hong Kong Disneyland – 15th Anniversary – Operation Santa Claus (B)

    One of two postcard variants Disney issued in 2020 to celebrate its 15th anniversary (even while the park was closed) and to generate proceeds for a local charity called Operation Santa Claus.  These were really hard to get.  Card measures 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″, and for good reasons can only be a very limited edition.  Unused.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308909

    Price: $9.00

    Hong Kong Disneyland – 15th Anniversary – Operation Santa Claus (B)
  • Hong Kong Disneyland – The Kindest One of All (set of 6)

    We’re showing you the back of this set of six unused cards, still unopened in its original cellowrap but with the retail price taken out of the photo.  The insert in the pack shows you designs (we suppose) for each of the six cards, and we suggest you compare these with our other two listings nearby for similar sets.  They are all different.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308910

    Price: $11.00

    Hong Kong Disneyland – The Kindest One of All (set of 6)
  • Hong Kong Disneyland – Be True to Yourself (set of 6)

    We’re showing you the back of this set of six unused cards, still unopened in its original cellowrap but with the retail price taken out of the photo.  The insert in the pack shows you designs (we suppose) for each of the six cards, and we suggest you compare these with our other two listings nearby for similar sets.  They are all different.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308911

    Price: $11.00

    Hong Kong Disneyland – Be True to Yourself (set of 6)
  • Hong Kong Disneyland – Believe in Every Wish (set of 6)

    We’re showing you the back of this set of six unused cards, still unopened in its original cellowrap but with the retail price taken out of the photo.  The insert in the pack shows you designs (we suppose) for each of the six cards, and we suggest you compare these with our other two listings nearby for similar sets.  They are all different.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308912

    Price: $11.00

    Hong Kong Disneyland – Believe in Every Wish (set of 6)
  • Bruce Lee’s Legacy (set of 7)

    We offer a set of seven cards, formally called (by Hongkong Post) “Bruce Lee’s Legacy in the World of Martial Arts”.  They are the Post Office’s Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 64, and therefore have pre-printed postage good for mailing anywhere.   Our scan shows you two of the seven cards in each set.  One set has no cancellation of the printed postage (Grade: 1, $20).  Another set has a special Bruce Lee postmark (Grade: 1, $24).

    Code: 20308913

    Price: $24.00

    Bruce Lee’s Legacy (set of 7)
  • Bruce Lee’s Legacy (set of 6)

    Issued by Hongkong Post in 2020, these sets of six unused cards come in two versions.  Each set features a different Lee movie, and one card from each of the two versions appears in our scan.  Version #1 has no postage, no postmark (Grade: 1, $18).   Version #2 is a set of six maximum cards, with large stamp and postmark (Grade: 1, $29).

    Code: 20308914

    Price: $18.00

    Bruce Lee’s Legacy (set of 6)
  • Peaceful Christmas!

    Unused card coming at the tail end (Christmas 2020) of the most turbulent time in Hong Kong’s recent history.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308915

    Price: $3.00

    Peaceful Christmas!
  • Legislative Council (set of 2)

    A set of two unused cards published in 2021.  We prefer not to try to explain them here.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308916

    Price: $8.00

    Legislative Council (set of 2)
  • Classical Novels of Chinese Literature – Romance of the Three Kingdoms (set of 8)

    The technical description:  a set of eight unused cards, with pre-printed postage, issued by Hongkong Post as “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 65”.  Our scan shows only one of the eight cards.  Just because we can, we will tell you the names of the eight scenes on the cards:  The Oath of the Peach Garden; A Notion of Heroes over Warm Wine; Escorting Sisters-in-law over a Thousand Miles; Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage; Zhao Yun Saving the Young Lord; Empty Fort Stratagem; The Arrow through the Halberd; and Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats.  Epic, indeed.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308917

    Price: $22.00

    Classical Novels of Chinese Literature – Romance of the Three Kingdoms (set of 8)
  • 19th Century China Trade Paintings (set of 8)

    A set of eight cards — the scan shows only one — of Hongkong Post’s Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 66.  Issued in 2021, the cards’ pre-printed postal imprints have special philatelic postmarks.   Grade: 1

    Code: 20308918

    Price: $22.00

    19th Century China Trade Paintings (set of 8)
  • Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 – Team Hong Kong, China (set of 4)

    This is a set of four cards, issued by Hongkong Post in 2021.  There’s no pre-printed postage (unusual for Hongkong Post), and our scan shows table tennis as just one of the cards; other subjects include bicycling, diving, and windsurfing.  The postcards are unused and still in their original cello wrap.  And why is this set so expensive?  As far as we can tell — and this is accurate up to the time we write this — the cards were never put on general sale, but instead made available as a bonus item redeemable by subscribers who had enough points from the Post Office’s annual subscription programme.   None of that matters to you, of course, but unless things change, there will never be many of these sets available.  Anywhere.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308919

    Price: $88.00

    Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 – Team Hong Kong, China (set of 4)
  • Teaspoon Tram and Bus Series (2 items)

    We think there are two unused cards in each of these two sets, but they are both in their original unopened cello-wrap.  They were sold by Hongkong Post, which would not allow inspection before purchase, but they turn out to have been produced by a private company and somehow found their way into the Post Office for sale.   The cards suggest people should cut out and fold the bus (or tram) but that would be an expensive way to get a paper model.  Both sets together for $9, or either single set for $5.  Grades: 1

    Code: 20308920

    Price: $9.00

    Teaspoon Tram and Bus Series (2 items)
  • 2021 SPCA(HK) 100th Anniversary (set of 6)

    This set of six unused cards without any pre-printed postage was issued by Hongkong Post in 2021 to celebrate the Centenary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Hong Kong).   Our scan shows one card (dog) while other cards have a cat; what might be a tortoise; a rabbit; a bird; and some indeterminate animal that sort of has the face of a camel and the body of a bear.  They’re all in party mode, as we will be if you buy this set!  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308921

    Price: $10.00

    2021 SPCA(HK) 100th Anniversary (set of 6)
  • 2021 SPCA(HK) 100th Anniversary (set of 6) (Maximum Cards)

    See our description for item 20308921.  These are the same cards, but in maximum style (with co-ordinating stamps and postmarks on the front).  Three sets are available.  Two have the coloured heart postmark as you see in the scan.  The third has a special B&W philatelic cancellation.  All unused, all Grade: 1

    Code: 20308922

    Price: $19.00

    2021 SPCA(HK) 100th Anniversary (set of 6) (Maximum Cards)
  • Disneyland, Happiest Place on Earth (set of 12)

    If you look at this from more than about one foot away, it looks exactly like a hardcover book.  It’s not; it’s a box in book format containing 12 lithograph postcards (see our entry 20308923B).  Measurements of the whole thing as enclosed in its original protective plastic cover:  7″ high x 6″ across x 1-3/4″ deep.  Note that the front logo specifies “Hong Kong Disneyland” and that the spine of the box — not seen in our scan — entitles this “Happiest Place on Earth”.  Now please see the scan for 20308923B.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308923A

    Price: $49.00

    Disneyland, Happiest Place on Earth (set of 12)
  • Disneyland, Happiest Place on Earth (set of 12) – reverse

    First, please see what we wrote about item 20308923A.  This is the back of the “book” and shows thumbnails of the 12 cards.  We’ve left the original price sticker on, but deleted their price so as not to confuse anyone.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308923B

    Price: $49.00

    Disneyland, Happiest Place on Earth (set of 12) – reverse
  • Feel 100% (set of 8)

    “Feel 100%” is an original comic created by artist Lau Wan-kit. The story, set in Hong Kong, depicts an intricate metropolitan love story. It won the Gold Award at the Second International Manga Award organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 2008, and then in 2021, Hongkong Post further recognised this effort with Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 67, a set of eight cards with coloured, pre-printed airmail postage on the reverses.  The set is in its original Cello-wrap, and the cards have special Philatelic postmarks.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308924

    Price: $22.00

    Feel 100% (set of 8)
  • Reporters

    We are taking a chance by listing this 6″ x 8-1/4″ unused card, but without any comment.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308925

    Price: $6.00

    Reporters
  • Movie Scenic Locations in Hong Kong (set of 4)

    Our scan shows you the front of one card and the back of another, from the set of four Hong Kong Post “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 68”.  That’s Jumbo floating restaurant, which we had hoped would reopen eventually but it sailed away and “capsized”.  The other three cards show Two International Finance Centre, the “Monster Building” (in a residential area), and Kau U Fong, once an obscure residential lane.  Each of these locations featured in a film during the past few years; and, no, we have no idea why Santa Claus is prominent on each card apart from their having been issued in December 2021.  Three unused sets are available:  two sets have special postmarks while one set has none.  Each set:  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308926

    Price: $16.00

    Movie Scenic Locations in Hong Kong (set of 4)
  • Coolies in Chinese Raincoats

    This ancient and unused card from Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store is an iconic representative of that sub-class of original Hong Kong postcards highlighting what some foreigners thought other foreigners should see.  For the record, we don’t see raincoats like this here any more.  Or any raincoats at all:  it’s usually too hot and steamy to wear them.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308927

    Price: $29.00

    Coolies in Chinese Raincoats
  • Museum (A)

    We refer back to some earlier postcards in our “Hong Kong” category, and want to advise that we are doing our best to be very careful about what we display.  Unfortunately that means you will need to do your own research about this and the few cards to follow in this sequence.  Not for sale to residents of Hong Kong or PR China.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308928C

    Price: $6.00

    Museum (A)
  • Museum (B)

    See description for entry 20308928C.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308929C

    Price: $6.00

    Museum (B)
  • Museum (C)

    See our description for 20308928C.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308930C

    Price: $6.00

    Museum (C)
  • Museum (D)

    See description for 20308928C.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308931C

    Price: $6.00

    Museum (D)
  • Museum (E)

    See description for 20308928C.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308932C

    Price: $6.00

    Museum (E)
  • Museum (F)

    See description for 20308928C.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308933C

    Price: $6.00

    Museum (F)
  • Museum (G)

    See description for 20308928C.  This ends our series.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308934C

    Price: $6.00

    Museum (G)
  • 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China (1949-1999)

    Unused card issued in 1999 by the Hong Kong Government as Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 10.  It has pre-printed, coloured postage with a special philatelic cancellation.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308935

    Price: $6.00

    50th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China (1949-1999)
  • Hong Kong Olympic Team 1996 – four sports

    It just seems best that we reproduce the entire caption since it applies to the next few cards in this sequence also.  Here goes:  “First day of issue:  29 October 1996.  Official Souvenir Postcard issued by the Amateur Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong to congratulate the outstanding achievements of the Hong Kong Olympic Team at the Centennial Olympic Games, 1996.”  (That’s also in Chinese.)  Unused, and note that cards in this sequence do *not* have preprinted postage.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308936

    Price: $4.00

    Hong Kong Olympic Team 1996 – four sports
  • Hong Kong Olympic Team 1996 – Opening Ceremony

    See description for 20308936.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20308937

    Price: $4.00

    Hong Kong Olympic Team 1996 – Opening Ceremony