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The Victoria Harbour and Star Ferry terminal
The Star Ferry terminal in this photo has been replaced and now sticks further out into what’s left of the harbour. And what had been the Ritz-Carlton Hotel–also gone, now relocated as The World’s Highest Hotel, across the harbour in Kowloon. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308381
Price: $5.00
The Chinese Resources Building & Harbour Centre
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308382
Price: $2.00
The Eastern Corridor at night
This is on Hong Kong Island. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308383
Price: $4.00
Facinating (sic) night views of Wanchai & Admiralty
Not only is there a spelling error in the caption, we need to tell you that Admiralty only starts behind the tall, well-lit Bank of China Building; and Wanchai is even further behind that. This photo mostly shows the area near what is now the Macau Ferry terminal. We would never know this if we didn’t live here. Grade: 1

Code: 20308384
Price: $5.00
The Bank of China Tower
Currently one of the world’s 20 tallest buildings. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308385
Price: $4.00
The Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower
All that’s left of what had been the Kowloon-Canton Railway terminus. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308386
Price: $5.00
Hong Kong Exhibition Center and Central Plaza
We keep writing about how so many of the world’s 20 tallest buildings are in Hong Kong. Here’s another one. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308388
Price: $3.00
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Established in 1991, and out there in Sai Kung. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308389
Price: $4.00
The Shatin Race Course
One of two horse racing venues in Hong Kong, where turnover on a race day can exceed US$130 million. Hongkongers take their horse racing very seriously. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308390
Price: $5.00
The Legislative Council Building
Many buildings, actually. Legco has moved out of its building, to be replaced by the Court of Final Appeal. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308391
Price: $4.00
The Statue of the Budha (sic) at Lantau Island
Purported to be the world’s largest seated outdoor bronze Buddha, we have no way to prove otherwise. Just across from the Po Lin Monastery, and a scary cable car ride up from Tung Chung. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308394
Price: $4.00
New Look at the Peak
Actually by now it’s an Old Look at the peak, but what makes this 5-1/2″ x 7″ card special is that it was mailed from Victoria Peak, with stamp and special Peak postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20308395
Price: $8.00
Wanchai, Pacific Coffee and Vine Church
An advertising card, mailed in 2011 with pre-printed postage and apparently due to religious reasons exempted from the “circular mail” opt-out law Hong Kong residents may opt into. This is a somewhat odd pairing of one of Hong Kong’s two largest coffee chains with a church. Grade: 1

Code: 20308396
Price: $4.00
Wing Lee Street, Wai Che Printing Co.
You need to have seen, or know about, the Hong Kong film Echoes of the Rainbow to understand Wing Lee Street fully. It’s a long story, but the film triggered public interest in restoring and renewing “historical” areas of Hong Kong. This card is one of a set of four that is sold by a small shop on that street. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20308397
Price: $3.00
Wing Lee Street, printer’s type
You need to have seen, or know about, the Hong Kong film Echoes of the Rainbow to understand Wing Lee Street fully. It’s a long story, but the film triggered public interest in restoring and renewing “historical” areas of Hong Kong. This card is one that was sold by a small shop on that street. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20308398
Price: $3.00
Wing Lee Street, printing apparatus
You need to have seen, or know about, the Hong Kong film Echoes of the Rainbow to understand Wing Lee Street fully. It’s a long story, but the film triggered public interest in restoring and renewing “historical” areas of Hong Kong. This card is one of a set of four that is sold by a small shop on that street. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20308399
Price: $3.00
Wing Lee Street, printer at work
You need to have seen, or know about, the Hong Kong film Echoes of the Rainbow to understand Wing Lee Street fully. It’s a long story, but the film triggered public interest in restoring and renewing “historical” areas of Hong Kong. This card is one of a set of four that is sold by a small shop on that street. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20308400
Price: $3.00
Chek Lap Kok Airport
Three of these unused 5-1/2″ x 7″ cards are available. A “must” for anyone who collects airport postcards. Grades: 1

Code: 20308401
Price: $3.00
International Airport viewed from Ngong Ping 360
It helps to know the context. Ngong Ping 360 is a complex containing a large seated outdoor Buddha, and one way to reach it is by these cable cars that have an annoying habit of stopping mid-ride while they sort out technical problems. But they get a spectacular airport view while they wait. Unused card measures 5-1/8″ x 7″. Grade: 1

Code: 20308402
Price: $3.00
Plane flying over Kowloon City to old Kai Tak Airport
Kai Tak Airport closed in 1998, replaced by the magnificent Chek Lap Kok facility. CLK may be safer, but lacks the kind of views like this that passengers used to get. Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card, and we have three of them. Grades: 1

Code: 20308403
Price: $5.00
Central and Kowloon from the Peak (3D)
You (and we) already know that these 3D cards made of heavy ridged plastic don’t scan well at all. But the unused card is perfectly clear. Grade: 1

Code: 20308404
Price: $9.00
Victoria Harbour (3D)
You (and we) already know that these 3D postcards made of heavy ridged plastic don’t scan well at all. But the unused card is perfectly clear. Grade: 1

Code: 20308405
Price: $9.00
Yaumati, Dundas Street
Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ Cameraman Card CBL 27. Grade: 1

Code: 20308406
Price: $3.00
Tsim Sha Tsui, Bruce Lee statue
Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ Cameraman Card CBL 101. Grade: 1

Code: 20308407
Price: $3.00
Mong Kok, Temple Street Night Market
Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ Cameraman Card NC 11. Grade: 1

Code: 20308410
Price: $3.00
Kowloon, Star Ferry
Our home is in this photo, and despite so many various cards of Victoria Harbour, this is the only one so far where we can spot it. No, it’s not that tall gold tower (Central Plaza). Unused 5-1/2″ x 7″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 20308411
Price: $3.00
Over Hong Kong (set)
In the original shrink wrap and therefore unopened, a set of 12 unused aerial shots of mostly urban structures, and the Big Buddha. Grade: 1

Code: 20308412
Price: $19.00
Cameraman’s Hong Kong (set)
A set of 12 large cards (~5-1/2″ x 7-1/4″), unused and unopened in the original shrink wrap. (Compare with item 20308583. Also, please ask us to confirm availability.) Grade: 1

Code: 20308413
Price: $21.00
Tamar Development Project – Postage Prepaid Postcard Series No. 25 (Tamar postmark)
Six of these sets of four unused cards are available, in their original cellophane wrap. Issued in December 2011, the cards have pre-printed worldwide airmail postage and the special Tamar postmark. Grades: 1

Code: 20308414
Price: $9.00
Tamar Development Project – Postage Prepaid Postcard Series No. 25 (No postmark)
Six of these sets of four unused cards are available, in their original cellophane wrap. Issued in December 2011, the cards have pre-printed worldwide airmail postage. Grades: 1

Code: 20308415
Price: $8.00
Tamar Development Project – Postage Prepaid Postcard Series No. 22 (Philatelic Bureau postmark) (set)
Two of these sets of four unused cards are available, in their original cellophane wrap. Issued in December 2011, the cards have pre-printed worldwide airmail postage and the special Philatelic Bureau postmark. Grades: 1

Code: 20308416
Price: $9.00
Tamar Development Project – Postage Prepaid Postcard Series No. 22 (GPO postmark) (set)
Two of these sets of four unused cards are available, in their original Government-issued cellophane wrap. Issued in December 2011, the cards have pre-printed worldwide airmail postage and the special GPO postmark. Grades: 1

Code: 20308417
Price: $9.00
Tamar Development Project – Postage Prepaid Postcard Series (Eight assorted sets and postmarks)
This is a group of eight sets of four cards each, most likely various postmarks similar to or the same as what we have described in entries immediately preceding this. But this group of sealed sets is still itself sealed up collectively as we received it from the Government. Expect 32 individual cards in total. Grade: 1

Code: 20308418
Price: $39.00
Chinese Festivals (set)
Hong Kong Post issued these sets of four cards in 2012. Each set commemorates a different festival: Tuen Ng (Dragon Boat), The Birthday of the Buddha, Kwun Yum, and Tin Hau. Each card has pre-printed airmail postage corresponding to the card’s design, good for anywhere in the world. We have four unused sets available, all in their original cello-wrap, and here is how they are different from each other: Two sets have no postmarks (Grades: 1, $22). One set has a special “Hong Kong Philatelic Bureau” postmark on each card, with date of issue (Grade: 1, $28). One set has a special “Hong Kong Festivals” postmark, also on each card and also with date of issue (Grade: 1, $28).

Code: 20308420
Price: $22.00
Peak Tram 120th Anniversary Celebration Pass (not a postcard)
This might appeal to collectors of Peak Tram ephemera, but please note that it is not a postcard. It is a glossy little item measuring 3″ x 4-1/8″, and the reverse gives details of special offers you would have received had you presented this pass at different locations on the Peak. Grade: 1

Code: 20308421
Price: $5.00
Belfry at Tsim Sha Tsui, and Kowloon Star Ferry
Normally people would call this the Clock Tower of the old railroad station. The card was mailed from Los Angeles (not Hong Kong) in 1990, with three stamps, full postmark, and various ink stains on the front and on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20308422
Price: $2.00
Chinese junk
The junks are gone now but the card is here, mailed in 1985 with stamp and postmark and blue trilingual Air Mail sticker. What sets the card apart from others is the caption on the reverse: “Chinese junk – With the background of Modern Buildings being the tourist centre in Kowloon, Hong Kong.” The problem is that the background is Hong Kong Island, not Kowloon. Grade: 1

Code: 20308423
Price: $9.00
Ocean Park
Unused card of a deeply conflicted theme park. 5-1/8″ x 6-3/4″. Grade: 1

Code: 20308426
Price: $6.00
Convention and Exhibition Centre
Unused, high-quality card, 5-1/8″ x 6-3/4″. It’s getting to the point that the only clear skies we can see here in Hong Kong are on postcards. Grade: 1

Code: 20308427
Price: $5.00
International Commerce Centre and West Kowloon Cultural District
It would take pages to tell you all the stories about this area. We won’t try, except to tell you that as of this typing (and it will change soon), Hong Kong has five of the world’s 20 tallest buildings–and this is the highest right now. This entire scene is in rapid transition. Unused, brilliant card, 5-1/8″ x 6-3/4″. Grade: 1

Code: 20308428
Price: $6.00

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