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A Tribute to Teachers (Maximum Cards) (Set of 4)
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
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2016 FIA Formula E Hong Kong ePrix (set of 4)
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
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1906 typhoon (set of 9)
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
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Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. with the Alexander Grantham and a Star Ferry in the 1960’s
Beginning our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Crossing the harbour in the early 1900s on the Northern Star
From our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Working upwind and crossing tacks
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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A millennial scene against a modern backdrop in the Western Anchorage
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Ghosting along on a beam reach on starboard tack
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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East meets west – a hybrid rig
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Running wing and wing
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Resting at anchor in the evening light
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Loading sand
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Carriage in stoneware jars
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Snug in harbour in the evening light
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Weather-beaten
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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All the family lives and works aboard
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Sparkling new paint
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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Time out for a careworn hull
Completing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1
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150th Anniversary of Stamp Issuance in Hong Kong
From Hongkong Post’s Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 47, this single card issued with pre-printed global postage and mailed in 2016 with blue trilingual airmail label and special philatelic postmark. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Museums Collection – Pencil Drawings by Mr. KONG Kai-ming (set of 6)
A set of six unused cards in their original cellowrap. This is the Hong Kong Government’s “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 55” with pre-printed stamps, and–in this case–those stamps have been cancelled with special philatelic postmarks. Grade: 1
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Harbour, Central & Kowloon from Pollock’s path
We have a special fondness for this unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card because it is one of hardly any that shows exactly the building we live in. You only have about 1,000 buildings to choose from. Grade: 1
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Happy Valley, Causeway Bay & the harbour from “the Summit”
In the case of this unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card, “the Summit” isn’t “The Peak,” it’s a block of flats. It’s a good view of one of Hong Kong’s two large horse racing tracks. Grade: 1
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Gnong (sic) Ping village & the Tian Tan Buddha of Po Lin Monastery
Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card, and that “Gnong” should be spelled “Ngong”. The Buddha, incidentally, is 34m high and was completed in 1993. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Central at night
Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card showing Des Voeux Road and Statue Square with what was Legco (Legislative Council) Building in the centre and HSBC HQ on the right. The photo would have been taken fairly late because usually there’s lots of traffic — vehicular and pedestrian — right there. Grade: 1
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Chater Garden and Central from Prince’s Building
Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card. Most of these buildings are identified in the caption. Grade: 1
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Discovery Bay, golf course and residential complex
Unused, 5-1/8″ x 7″ card from the early 2000s. Grade: 1
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Tsim Sha Tsui, aerial view
Unused, 5-1/8″ x 7″ card from the early 2000s. Grade: 1
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Chek Lap Kok Airport terminal
Unused, 5-1/8″ x 7″ card from the late 1990s (the airport opened in 1998). Grade: 1
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’97 Celebrating the Return of Hong Kong, The Commemorative Card of Chinese Painting Exhibition (not postcards) – cover
Other than being four plastic cards, we don’t know what these are, but they are not postcards. We offer them in case you want a collectible from the 1997 Handover. There’s an outer paper envelope (not shown here) with Chinese handwriting on the front. This envelope contains a paper folio (shown here, opened); inside (see 20308728B) are four plastic cards that look like credit cards or bank ATM cards,that seem to have been useful for discounts somewhere–at the time–but we’re not sure about that. Apart from the writing on the front envelope, an implied: Grade: 1
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’97 Celebrating the Return of Hong Kong, The Commemorative Card of Chinese Painting Exhibition (not postcards) – the cards
See entry 20308728A for details.
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Ocean Park (set of 3)
This set of three unused cards is still sealed in its original wrap, so we show you the back, which has thumbnail photos of the cards inside. We excised the original price, though. (Side note: how many postcards are sold these days with legal warnings telling of a choking hazard for children under 3 years due to “sharp edges”?) Gosh … and just as odd, we were just over there and they no longer sell postcards of the Park itself. That seems strange. Grade: 1
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Museum Statue
Maybe you will understand our dilemma. Maybe not. We will explain anyway. We have customers in China and we don’t want our website to be banned there. If we showed the cards in this series uncensored, we would run that risk. So we are asking you to “read between the lines,” so to speak, and imagine what might be here. If you really want to know, ask us and we can e-mail the full version. Each card in this series (which we are selling individually, and all are unused) has a sticker with a crowdfunding request on the reverse, placed at source so the stickers are not a defect. Grade: 1
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Museum Relics
See our entry 20308730. Grade: 1
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Museum blanket
See our entry 20308730. Grade: 1
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Museum banner
See our entry 20308730. Grade: 1
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Museum Concert
See our entry 20308730. Grade: 1
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Museum tanks
See our entry 20308730. Grade: 1
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Museum Candlelight
See our entry 20308730. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Disneyland, irregular shapes (set of 5)
A remarkably attractive set of five sturdy (unused) cards. The scan shows you how the bundle looks from the front, and also from the back, with thumbnail views of each of the five cards. Yes, that’s the original price tag in HK$, from which we removed the original number so as not to mislead you. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Disneyland Spring Fiesta 2017 (set of 4 + sticker)
By definition, a limited edition. This is a set of four unused cards, and a separate sheet of the same size inside that is called a sticker though it looks more like a piece of paper to us. The scan shows you one card; the other three are of a similar theme/design. These are encircled by a thin cellowrap, and on the back of that there’s a design of the contents along with the original price tag covered by a bit of blue Disneyland tape showing that all this was paid for and not stolen. (This is how it works now that Hong Kong no longer offers free plastic bags.) Grade: 1