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Liberty Leading
No, the unused postcard does not look like this, and neither do any of those with empty white areas that follow. It’s the first of many different cards showing certain events in Hong Kong beginning in summer 2019 — in this case, one specific action on Hong Kong Island. If we showed these cards in full, we would be quite foolish. These will be rare postcards eventually. If you want to see the full scan of this or the others, we can probably e-mail you, depending on where you live, but it will depend on circumstances of the day. Grade: 1

Code: 20308821C*
Price: $29.00
No Rioters
Please see our explanation for item 20308821C. This unused card is a reasonably typical view of an individual participant. Grade: 1

Code: 20308822C*
Price: $19.00
Sheung Shui
Please see our explanation for item 20308821C. This unused card shows a large event in an outlying location near the border. Grade: 1

Code: 20308823C
Price: $24.00
Tuen Mun
Please see our explanation for item 20308821C. This unused card is one of a few contrasting “normal” times with abnormal events. Grade: 1

Code: 20308824C*
Price: $26.00
Admiralty
Please see our explanation for item 20308821C. This unused card is another of those contrasting normal and not-so-normal scenes, this one in an area adjoining Central District. Grade: 1

Code: 20308825C*
Price: $26.00
Stand with …
Please see our explanation for item 20308821C. This unused card is a reasonably typical view of nearly nightly events in and around Central District. Phenomenal postcards. Grade: 1

Code: 20308826C
Price: $29.00
Admiralty 616
Please see our explanation for item 20308821C. This unused card is an alternative daytime view of another mass event in an area near Central District. Grade: 1

Code: 20308827C
Price: $29.00
Wong Tai Sin
Please see our explanation for item 20308821C. This unused card is one of a few contrasting “normal” times with abnormal events, in a well-known part of Kowloon. Grade: 1

Code: 20308828C*
Price: $26.00
Mong Kok
Please see our explanation for item 20308821C. This unused card is another of a few contrasting “normal” times with abnormal events, but in this case Mong Kok is one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world. Grade: 1

Code: 20308829C*
Price: $26.00
Umbrella, shrouded
Unused card representing events covered in our recent entries just before this. The reverse is blank apart from a QR Code and a Twitter legend. Grade: 1

Code: 20308830
Price: $19.00
Ukraine
Is this a postcard? That would be up to you. It’s the right size and shape. The front is as you see here. The reverse has bilingual Chinese and English legends about civil action, referring to a season in Ukraine. If this puzzles you, ask us by e-mail (Grades: 1, $6). We also have two cards with the same drawing on the front, but blank on the reverse (Grades: 1, $3).

Code: 20308831
Price: $6.00
Basic Rights
See our explanation for 20308821C. Some cards focus on photos; others on art; and others do their best to make light of the subject. Grade: 1

Code: 20308832C
Price: $16.00
Stand with Hong Kong (set of 4)
Refer to entry 20308821C as to why the photo looks like this. The white strip in the middle is a paper sleeve that keeps the four cards together. By now you may be wondering why most of this type of card are relatively expensive. They typically weren’t free at the source. Vendors “requested” extra payment to help fund their activities. Reminder, if you want to see full photos, ask us. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20308833C*
Price: $36.00
Moon and umbrella
Refer to earlier entries for the story. This (unused) card is blank on the back, and we have two of them. Grades: 1

Code: 20308834C
Price: $8.00
Old Master Q (set of 8)
Our scan shows the front and the back of a sample card from this set, Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 60 from Hongkong Post. (We’ve just edited out the original selling price.) Note that these cards were printed with global airmail postage, but for the two sets we have available, one is postmarked with a GPO cancellation and the other with a special philatelic cancellation. So let us know which set(s) you want. Google will tell you a lot about Old Master Q! Grades: 1

Code: 20308835
Price: $22.00
Prince Edward MTR, covered by notes and flowers
Please again refer to recent entries along the same lines as this one. Prince Edward MTR (if you’re American, “subway”) station is at the focal point of one of the more contentious areas in Kowloon. That wall of notes is colloquially known in Hong Kong as a (name of one non-living Beatle) wall. A few of these cards are available, and the reverse is blank. Grade: 1

Code: 20308836C*
Price: $12.00
Vista with bicycle
We are running out of ways to be evasive, but as long as the situation here continues, we have no choice. A few of these cards are still available, blank on the back. They’re colourful, showing lots of posters and walls of notes for passing bicyclists to peruse (Grades: 1, $12; but there’s one card with a small abrasion on the lower left corner (Grade: 3, $4).

Code: 20308837C*
Price: $12.00
Female Warrior
A few of these cards, blank on the back, are available. The artwork shows a large, neo-Gothic almost manga-style artwork of a female ready for — it seems — just about anything. Feel free to ask … Grade: 1

Code: 20308838C
Price: $14.00
Lion Rock (set of 2)
Here are two cards, not exactly postcards because there is no place to write a message. Each card measures 6/1-2″ x 3-1/4″ and the reverse of one is the front of the other. They work together as a set. While not overtly political, anyone who lives in Hong Kong and who reads between the lines will know the references perfectly well. Grade: 1

Code: 20308839C*
Price: $19.00
A Wa.. against the W.. (set of 5)
The scan will give you the best possible idea of these five unused cards, still in their original cellowrap. Recently, Hong Kong’s considerable artistic talents have been put to extensive use. Grade: 1

Code: 20308840C
Price: $39.00
2020 (set of 5)
Continuing our series of cards emerging from events that started in mid-2019, this set of five unused postcards is still in its original cellowrap. If you want to see anything uncensored, just ask. Grade: 1

Code: 20308841C
Price: $34.00
Set of 13
We couldn’t think of an acceptable name for this set of 13 unused cards, because its official name would probably not last very long. Our scan shows two of the 13, and others are variations on the theme. This set, while more expensive, covers 2019 events comprehensively. Grade: 1

Code: 20308842C*
Price: $89.00
Average Guy (set of 5)
The set of five unused cards may each be “Just a Postcard” (as they self-describe) but the artwork is impressive and the sentiments clear. Grade: 1

Code: 20308843C
Price: $42.00
Negative Image (first set of 4)
This is the first of three different sets of four unused cards each, and we call them “negative image” because they are like what you saw through a filmstrip of negatives back in the days before digital photos. We can give you a discount if you want more than one of the sets. Grades: 1

Code: 20308844C*
Price: $36.00
Negative Image (second set of 4)
Please see our description for item 20308844C. This is the second of three sets. Grade: 1

Code: 20308845C*
Price: $36.00
Negative Image (third set of 4 cards each)
Please see our description for item 20308844C*. This is the third set of four cards. Grade: 1

Code: 20308846C*
Price: $36.00
Perry H (set of 6)
Similar in spirit to other sets like this, with photographs of clarity and impact. A couple of these particularly resonate with us because we were nearby at the time. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20308847C*
Price: $52.00
Cats, Pig, Bird, Frog
This unused card was explained to us, by the vendor, as “something you can send to your friends in Taiwan as a New Year greeting”. Perhaps. There’s faint design and even fainter captioning (in Chinese) on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20308848C
Price: $18.00
C. Leung (set of 4)
These unused cards in a set of four tell a story, and while we didn’t quite catch what it was, they were in hot demand at the stall where we found them. Cats of this world, unite! Remember, if you want to see full scans, ask us and we can probably e-mail them to you. Grade: 1

Code: 20308849C*
Price: $32.00
A. Chow
We would rather not censor any card, particularly this one, but some selective searching on your part will tell you the story behind Mr. A. Chow and why he merits a postcard of his own. We have a few of these, unused, blank on the reverse. The Chinese text recalls old song lyrics from a popular TVB show. Grade: 1

Code: 20308850C
Price: $4.00
Victim
There was an incident in which a young lady was injured. The designers of this card — unused, blank on the back — maybe did not take full advantage of their opportunity with it; but it belongs with other cards from the same series of events. No, we don’t know her name. Grade: 1

Code: 20308851C
Price: $2.00
Embrace
A few of these cards, also with blank reverses, are available. The missing Chinese text basically says: I will wait as long as necessary. Grade: 1

Code: 20308852C*
Price: $12.00
Press
You’ll notice we’ve made no cuts to this card. Why should we? … Many persons like this appear at all the events, sometimes outnumbering the actual participants. Grade: 1

Code: 20308853
Price: $16.00
Washing Eyes
Very few people in Hong Kong had first-hand experience with tear gas until turmoil began in mid-2019. It might be safe to say, now, that few people don’t. Water seems to be the best remedy. Unused card, blank on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 20308854C
Price: $12.00
An Aggregate of Anger
For this unused card (blank on the back), we had to make a decision whether or not to white-out the whole thing. So we’re taking a liberal approach — this time. Grade: 1

Code: 20308855C*
Price: $12.00
Personal Protective Equipment
We’re writing this from the relative safety of our home office during the apex of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. And why are we telling you this? Because this card, under different circumstances, could be said to reflect the way persons try to protect themselves against this virus. But that’s not what it’s doing. Demonstrators in 2019 got there first, as protection against tear gas. Unused card, blank on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20308856C
Price: $7.00
Chinese University
One of the more vivid examples of events in 2019, a pitched battle at Chinese University in Hong Kong’s New Territories. This unused card has extensive information on the reverse, along with two different QR codes that will lead you into other, darker territories. Grade: 1

Code: 20308857C*
Price: $29.00
Fists
Unused card, blank on the reverse. The words we’ve blotted out loosely translate as “revenge” and, in Cantonese, sound like “dan kong” if that helps you. Grade: 1

Code: 20308858C*
Price: $12.00
Walk Together
It might have been acceptable to show this card uncut but all its neighbours might have made it guilty by association. The missing characters suggest “we’re all in this together”. Unused, and blank on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 20308859C
Price: $8.00
Polytechnic University, Dyed Water
It was a bright day, and somehow we found ourselves observing this action, in Kowloon. Guess what? It looked like this, and one would not want to be caught in that spray. It’s blue for a reason. The unused card has extensive captioning on the reverse, and the two QR codes. Grade: 1

Code: 20308860*
Price: $29.00

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