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

The view on this unused card N987C is about as artificial and unreal as it would be possible to print.  But not everyone would know that — unless they read this.  It’s just funny.  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

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

Five cards, five singers:  Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Danny Chan, Roman Tam, Wong Ka Kui — all now deceased, and commemorated on this “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 31” from 2005, with matching postage pre-printed on the reverses.  We only can show one card because of the way they were originally bound together, but if you want more information, please ask.  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

Could there be a nicer gift for your postcard-or-stamp-collecting teacher?  Better than an apple!  From 2016, two sets of these unused cards are available.  Grades: 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

Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese.  Grade: 1