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Beautiful Shanghai, City Walk (Set of 12)
As many people know, Shanghai went through a striking evolutionary period. Yesterday’s postcards are already history. This is an unopened set of 12, and our scan shows you thumbnail photos of those cards — as of that moment. It’s a contemporary set from 2024. Grade: 1

Code: 203071024
Price: $12.00
Ryojun (Port Arthur), Monument for dead members of Third Blockade Expedition
Another unused card from the Russo-Japanese War group. We won’t attempt to explain this one. Grade: 2

Code: 20307103
Price: $6.00
Shanghai, the money changer
The strange thing about this unused card is that it looks like a cheap reproduction of an original photo–but it’s not, it’s really the original, in B&W and on a flimsy paper stock. Still, the photo is great, with lots of advertising signs, as you can see. Album indents on reverse corners. A Taisho card. Grade: 1

Code: 20307104
Price: $24.50
Dairen, Erectric Park
It does sometimes occur that Japanese persons (who produced this old card) mix up the letters R and L when speaking or writing. That has happened here, with unintentionally ironic and funny consequence. You figure it out!! Unused card, some crunching on the lower right corner. Grade: 2

Code: 20307105
Price: $29.50
Great City Shanghai
Another unused Yamadashi card, printed by Kaigakenkyukai, calling Shanghai the “most busiest international harbour in Orient.” Clear blue skies and no traffic! Album indents on reverse corners, and minor edge abrasions. Grade: 2

Code: 20307106
Price: $34.00
Shanghai, view of Bund
Affordable and unused old B&W card. It is unattributed, and has shadowy album indents on reverse corners. Grade: 1

Code: 20307107
Price: $19.00
Nanking, Flourishing Taiping Road, Japanese section
Strange, it almost looks like parts of New York City in the same era. Well, except for the rickshaws. Unused card, heavily aged and atmospheric. Grade: 2

Code: 20307109
Price: $9.00
Amusing Room of Cooly, Fushun Colliery
Just a little bit lost in translation on this vintage China postcard, but we get the idea. Unused and the picture is nicely clear. Grade: 1

Code: 20307110
Price: $12.00
Shanghai, Yung-an Kungsuu department store
In Hong Kong, at least, this company is known as Wing On (if it’s the same, and we think so), the largest local department store. The card is unused and appropriately aged. Grade: 2

Code: 20307111
Price: $12.00
Joyful farmers in melon field
You may compare this with our earlier card having the same picture but produced by a different company and in a completely different way. This one is more the real-photo, unused, but with some pencil abrasion on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20307112
Price: $6.00
Harbin, Kitaiskaya Street
This unused card either started out purple of turned that way over time. It is captioned bilingually in Russian and Japanese only, but we know this to be Kitaiskaya Street, now Zhong Yang Street (Central Street), one of the main business streets in the city. Harbin’s rich mix of international influences suggest this view could have been almost anywhere in the world. Grade: 2

Code: 20307113
Price: $11.00
Kungchuling and Kaiyuan, soya beans
Heavily aged two-views-for-one card issued by the South Manchuria Railway Co. of Dairen. It’s unused, and because the stock paper is quite rigid, each of the corners is bumped a little bit. If you are into soya beans and railroads, this card should definitely be on your list. Grade: 3

Code: 20307114
Price: $9.00
Port Arthur, Refloated blockader
Another unused Russo-Japanese War card, another battle aftermath. Grade: 2

Code: 20307115
Price: $6.00
Nanking, city view
Nanking and its river, with English identification on the reverse. Unused vintage Chinese postcard. Grade: 3

Code: 20307117
Price: $9.00
Great Wall
Unused 1970s card from Peking Publishing House. One side note: not only can’t you see the Wall from outer space, you can’t see it from many airplanes either. That doesn’t make it any less magnificent, though. Grade: 2

Code: 20307119
Price: $2.00
The Curiosity Shop
This card was mailed, has its stamp and full postmark. We’re not sure whether the postmark’s 6.11.20 means it was sent in the 20th year of the Japanese Emporer’s reign, or in 1920, but if you’ve read this far, we know it’s something you will know. There is a full message, and address, in Japanese. Grade: 1

Code: 20307120
Price: $12.00
Dokugunno Giho
We’re thinking the Japanese caption reveals some secrets because the western one tells us nothing. Google has no entries for Dokugunno, and if you enter Giho you get something with a totally different direction. (Try it and see!) The card is unused and very heavily aged, but undamaged and unquestionably a curiosity. Grade: 3

Code: 20307121
Price: $11.00
Shanghai, Hongkew Market
Unused card issued by Toyo Murakami Art and Curios, Palace Hotel Building, Shanghai. The sepia tone adds glamour to the congested and busy market scene. Album indents on corners are noticeable. Grade: 3

Code: 20307122
Price: $12.00
Shenzhen, golf course
Unused card from Guangdong Travel and Tourism Press in early 2000s or thereabouts. Grade: 1

Code: 20307123
Price: $2.00
Yinchuan, Imperial Tombs of Xixia
Published by Foreign Languages Press in Beijing, in the 1980s or earlier, this card was mailed from Beijing in 1991, and has three stamps, two of which are magnificently large and scenic; two full postmarks; and a bilingual red par avion chop as well. This card would be a prize for your collection. Grade: 2

Code: 20307124
Price: $9.00
Sampan
We know it’s a sampan, and someone long aso also wrote “sampan” in Japanese on the back of this otherwise uncaptioned real-photo card. It doesn’t indicate that the setting is China but we believe that to be the case. Grade: 2

Code: 20307125
Price: $5.00
Bound feet (photograph)
This is not a postcard. It’s an original photo, 3″ x 4-3/8″, of a close-up of a woman’s bound feet. Her face can be seen blurred in the background. It’s been in an album, and on the reverse is a fading round blue “chop” dated either 1911 or the 11th year of the Japanese Emperor’s reign, we’re not sure which. And no, we’re not even certain if this photo was taken in PRC or in Hong Kong. Ungraded.

Code: 20307126
Price: $59.00
Old book
Another card made mysterious to us because we don’t know the languages. The card itself is very heavily aged, but unused. Grade: 3

Code: 20307127
Price: $4.00
Japanese club in Chinese garden
We need to verify where this is, and would change this description if we ever found out, which now seems unlikely. Meanwhile, it’s an unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 20307128
Price: $2.00
Shoreline
No western caption on this unmailed card, but plenty of printed and added writing front and back. It meant something to someone. Grade: 3

Code: 20307129
Price: $4.00
Nanking
This old unused card from Yamadashi Kaigakenkyukai is probably Nanking–we just need to get the captions translated. Grade: 3

Code: 20307130
Price: $7.00
Shanghai, Japanese military, Sikh guard, more …
A whole lot of symbolism in this unused Matsumura postcard from Kanda, Tokyo. Surprisingly few cards from this company turn up on Google. Grade: 2

Code: 20307131
Price: $12.00
Market
It’s a wonderful unused vintage China postcard but it’s also another one that we’re not quite sure what city it is. Grade: 2

Code: 20307132
Price: $8.00
Peking, Corner of Peihai Park
Unused Peking Publishing House card from the 1970s. Grade: 1

Code: 20307133
Price: $2.00
Beijing, Square of the Supreme Harmony Gate
This card was mailed from Beijing in 1994, with two stamps and full postmark, and a little bit of postal crinkling around the edges. Grade: 2

Code: 20307134
Price: $3.00
Harbin, Zhong Yang Street centenary (folio)
This is a folio of eight unused cards of Harbin’s main street. The cardboard wrap has a wonderful little poem in English and Chinese, commemorating the folio itself. The folio (and therefore the cards) was new in the 1990s but the photos are old pictures as main street used to be–not all of it 100 years ago. Plus, each card has 40 fen postage pre-printed on it. So now we tell you the cards were issued by the Ministry of Information. Grade: 1

Code: 20307135
Price: $19.00
Kweilin, scenery
Card was printed in Hong Kong of this famous Chinese scenic location, and mailed in Malaysia in 1991. The Malaysian stamp is there, and the card is aging significantly on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20307136
Price: $3.00
Peking, Imperial Palace, Hall of Supreme Harmony
Fading card, printed in Hong Kong but mailed in Malaysia in 1991. It has a Malaysian stamp, and the card has aged significantly on both sides. Grade: 3

Code: 20307137
Price: $3.00
Yangshuo, scenery
Mailed in Hong Kong in 1984, this card has two Hong Kong stamps (one is a little abraded) and a full postmark. There is a blue tri-lingual airmail sticker affixed, and also some postmark smudging on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20307138
Price: $2.00
Wudalianchi Volcanic Park (folio)
In Heilongjiang, this park has five connected lakes. The folio of nine cards, published by the Posts and Telecommunications Administration of Wudalianchi and which explains everything in Chinese and English, is as-new. Grade: 1

Code: 20307139
Price: $17.00
Harbin, ice festival, temples
One of four unused cards from the 1990s, showing a spectacular annual winter event that tests your ability to be cold. (If all four cards are still available, have the lot for $8.) Grade: 1

Code: 20307140
Price: $3.00
Harbin, ice festival, large temple
One of four unused cards from the 1990s, showing a spectacular annual winter event that tests your ability to be cold. (If all four cards are still available, have the lot for $8.) Grade: 1

Code: 20307141
Price: $3.00
Harbin, ice festival, candles
One of four unused cards from the 1990s, showing a spectacular annual winter event that tests your ability to be cold. (If all four cards are still available, have the lot for $8.) Grade: 1

Code: 20307143
Price: $3.00
Guangzhou, skyline
Even in the years since this card was mailed (1996), Guangzhou has changed so much–all for the better, we should add–so this is a great contemporary yet historical artifact. Card has three different stamps, two full postmarks, and a Postal Service bar code on bottom reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20307146
Price: $6.00
Scenery of China (folio)
There are ten unused cards and a cardboard wrapper (pictured) to this folio, undated but probably from 1990s. The folio includes several other cards we have listed separately, including the masterpiece from Suzhou that we once used as the graphic on our home page. Grade: 1

Code: 20307147
Price: $39.00

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