This is an unused lottery ticket.  We have a few.  If you want to buy it, it’s US$10.  But if you buy three or more Albanian postcards from us, and if you mention that you would like one piece of either 20501019A or B (from the Albania Postcards category), we’ll happily give you one for free.  (Limit one per customer, please.)  Grade: 1

It’s a novelty tear-off calendar published by Valentine’s Novelty Calendars in Great Britain a long time ago, measuring 4.25″ x 6″ altogether.  We do not know what year it is because we have not removed this from the plastic bag we received it in.  So we make no guarantees about year or condition of the little calendar inside.  Google was no help at all.  The reverse is blank.

The scan shows you the front and the back of these small (3-1/4″ x 4-7/8″, excluding the light blue flaps) sets of stamp-like stickers.  They are in their original packaging, and we have just blotted out the original sales price.   Two sets are available.  Grades: 1

You will need to take our word for this.  Over 40+ years we saved paper-wrapped toothpicks.  They come from restaurants, airlines, clubs, and hotels — mostly but not exclusively from Asia.  We have not counted them, and there are duplicates.  We’re guessing several hundred pieces in total.  Some look new, others are highly aged.   Some may be degraded.  They fill a plastic ice cream tub to bursting and are completely, really unsorted.   If you buy them, we will wrap that tub “as is” and send them off to you but we need to find the cost of postage first.   Absolutely no guarantees about what’s here, but the scan gives you a good idea and we do know some of them are quite special.  Ungraded.  $50.

You won’t find many of these in any website, much less one focusing on postcards.  And we cannot begin to describe them fully here.   The scan shows a sampling of individual documents, all from the early 20th century.  We have a stack of them measuring about an inch thick.  They include Mortgages, Referee’s Deed, Gaurdian’s Deed (sic), and Warranty Deed … what an entry into American real estate history.  Highly aged, of course, but intact and so evocative.  Grades: 2

This tiny (easily pocket-sized) gem from the 1970s would have covered just about every rule and tip a novice (and many experts) wanted to know about gambling at Macau’s casinos.  We all know rules are different around the world, and probably not the same in Macau now either, but we don’t know for sure because getting there is impossible and even if we could, the minimum bet amounts are — for us, anyway — prohibitive.  The scan is hard to see, but the front cover does read the same as our header.  Grade: 1

Just before Hong Kong’s return to China’s control in 1997, the Chinese Arts and Crafts chain held this sale, for which you see here the front and back (bilingual) of a small promotional leaflet.  Grade: 1

Quite large, folded single-sheet pamphlet issued by Hong Kong’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department in conjunction with the Hong Kong Museum of Art and its subsidiary the Museum of Tea Ware.  The exhibit on The History of Tea came and went in 2008 but this very, very specific brochure just about touches every element of the history of tea.  Grade: 1

The Hong Kong Government has imposed many different types of Health Declaration Forms on residents and visitors, each triggered by one specific disease or another.  This one focused on swine flu, which we do not recall having affected too many people here.  Grade: 1