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Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – High-speed comfort
Hong Kong’s airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. 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 have some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. This card shows that “Passengers will travel in comfort on the Airport Express”. And so they do, to this day. Grade: 1

Code: 20308682
Price: $4.00
Hong Kong Airport Core Programme – Largest road tunnel
Hong Kong Airport, Chek Lap Kok, opened in 1998. Sometime in the mid-1990s, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office issued a book of 4-7/8″ x 8-3/4″ postcards and we have some from that set, all unused, all with perforated top edge. To end the series, this card shows that the “Western Harbour Crossing is Hong Kong’s largest cross-harbour road tunnel” (there are three, so it’s not hard to be the largest). Grade: 1

Code: 20308683
Price: $4.00
Merry Christmas 1996: five characters
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

Code: 20308685
Price: $2.00
Merry Christmas 1996: Santa’s cap
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

Code: 20308686
Price: $2.00
Merry Christmas 1996: Clock Tower and fireworks
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

Code: 20308687
Price: $2.00
Merry Christmas 1996: Island skyline
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

Code: 20308688
Price: $2.00
Lamma Island, waterfront
Larger (5-1/8″ x 7-1/8″) card, unused, dated 2013. Lamma won’t look like this forever. Grade: 1

Code: 20308689
Price: $3.00
Causeway Bay, A typical Hong Kong street scene
Judging from visual clues: the add-on tram car, the van’s number plate, and most of all, our own memory, we would place this photo in the early 1970s. But the card was mailed in 2015, with four different stamps (two commemorative), two philatelic postmarks, and blue trilingual airmail label. You can spot Tram 34. Grade: 1

Code: 20308695
Price: $6.00
“Seawise University” on fire, 9 Jan. 1972
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

Code: 20308696
Price: $4.00
King Edward Hotel on fire
The fire was in 1929, on Hong Kong Island. The unused card probably dates from the late 1970s or early 1980s. Grade: 1

Code: 20308697
Price: $4.00
A car burnt in rioting, 1967
The unused card probably dates from the late 1970s or early 1980s. Grade: 1

Code: 20308698
Price: $4.00
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

Code: 20308702
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 20308703
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 20308705
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 20308706
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 20308707
Price: $4.00
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

Code: 20308708
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 20308709
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 20308710
Price: $2.00
Loading sand
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1

Code: 20308711
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 20308712
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 20308713
Price: $2.00
Weather-beaten
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1

Code: 20308714
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 20308715
Price: $1.00
Sparkling new paint
Continuing our series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, captioned bilingually in English and Chinese. Grade: 1

Code: 20308716
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 20308717
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 20308718
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 20308720
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 20308721
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 20308722
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 20308723
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 20308724
Price: $3.00
Discovery Bay, golf course and residential complex
Unused, 5-1/8″ x 7″ card from the early 2000s. Grade: 1

Code: 20308725
Price: $3.00
Tsim Sha Tsui, aerial view
Unused, 5-1/8″ x 7″ card from the early 2000s. Grade: 1

Code: 20308726
Price: $4.00
Chek Lap Kok Airport terminal
Unused, 5-1/8″ x 7″ card from the late 1990s (the airport opened in 1998). Grade: 1

Code: 20308727
Price: $2.00
’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

Code: 20308728A
Price: $9.00
’97 Celebrating the Return of Hong Kong, The Commemorative Card of Chinese Painting Exhibition (not postcards) – the cards
See entry 20308728A for details.

Code: 20308728B
Price: $9.00
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

Code: 20308730C*
Price: $4.00
Museum Relics
See our entry 20308730. Grade: 1

Code: 20308731
Price: $4.00
Museum blanket
See our entry 20308730. Grade: 1

Code: 20308732
Price: $4.00

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