Mailed in 2015 with three different stamps and two special philatelic postmarks, along with a blue trilingual Air Mail label.  Grade: 1

You might think this is the same as our entry 20308319, but no.  It has its own reference number N811V, and was mailed in 2015 with stamp and special philatelic postmark.  Grade: 1

Unused, larger (4-3/4″ x 7-1/8″) card issued by the Hong Kong Government’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department, with the Hall “declared as monument in 1997”.  Grade: 1 

Hong Kong’s brilliant airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998.  Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge.  Continuing the series, this card shows “Buildings taking shape on the Central Reclamation (of Victoria Harbour)”.  Grade: 1

Hong Kong’s brilliant “new” airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998.  (Well, to many of us, it’s still new.)  Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of large (4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″) postcards and we received some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge.  To continue the series, this card shows “The airport island is four times larger than (the old) Kai Tak airport”.  Grade: 1

First, let’s provide the English version of bilingual captions on the reverse:  “Hong Kong Post Office Hologram Postcard Series No. (3 through 8, each card a different number) to commemorate HONG KONG ’97 Stamp Exhibition from 12 to 16 February 1997”.  Note that the holographic stamp on the lower left is printed into the card, not attached.  The same is true for the three other stamps on the right, and pre-printed actual postage on the reverse.

We have two sets available.  One has no special postmarks on the reverse; the other (see scan) does.  The scan shows you three of the six cards in each set; the others include a highway interchange, bamboo scaffolding, and a ceremonial dragon.  The set without postmarks is Grade: 1 ($22).  One of the holographic stamps on one of the cards from the other set has a flaw, so the whole set is  Grade: 3 ($10).  Any questions?  Please ask us.  Unused, and with original cellowrap.

Unused card with pre-printed world-wide postage, from the Government’s Christmas Greeting Card Series No. 1.  Note that the postmark design on the front of the card is printed into the card and not applied separately.  Grade: 1

Unused card with pre-printed world-wide postage, from the Government’s Christmas Greeting Card Series No. 1.  Note that the postmark design on the front of the card is printed into the card and not applied separately.  Grade: 1

Each item in the set (Hong Kong Government’s “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 54”) has a different postage denomination, and they all fold out in the way you can see.  The back of each item looks like a postcard, with pre-printed postage postmarked on the first day of issue (31 March 2016), but it is stretching things to call these “postcards”.  Regardless, we have this one set available, unused.  Those black areas are just to remove some glare from the scan.  No deep meaning!  Grade: 1

First, about the card:  unused, with some smudging around the edges and on the back.  (Not serious, but there.)  Now, about the event, we’ll borrow from Wikipedia’s entry about what had been the passenger and mail vessel RMS Queen Elizabeth:  “Queen Elizabeth was sold to a succession of buyers, most of whom had adventurous and unsuccessful plans for her. Finally she was sold to a Hong Kong businessman, Tung Chao Yung, who intended to convert her into a floating university cruise ship. In 1972, while undergoing refurbishment in Hong Kong harbour, she caught fire under mysterious circumstances and was capsized by the water used to fight the fire. In 1973, her wreck was deemed an obstruction, and she was partially scrapped where she lay.”  Grade: 2

The fire was in 1929, on Hong Kong Island.  The unused card probably dates from the late 1970s or early 1980s.  Grade: 1

An unused set of four cards (Postage Prepaid Postcard Series No. 26), issued in 2016, with coloured pre-printed postage and each card postmarked with a special philatelic “chop”.  Grade: 1

A set of nine unused B&W modern cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum and commemorating a disastrous typhoon in 1906.  The bilingual captions don’t seem to want to reveal the exact date but it’s very easy to deduce that.  Our scan shows four of the cards.  Grade: 1