Hong Kong SAR – Individual – Page 19

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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
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
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
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
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
Under the Lion Rock
Hong Kong people will recognise our title for this card as an iconic TV series, but here we give it a different meaning for this artwork. The missing characters suggest a message of hope for the future of HK. Unused card, blank on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 20308862C*
Price: $9.00
Extreme
Sorry that we couldn’t allow most of the image or text to display here. But we’re certain you will get the idea. Unused card, blank on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20308863C*
Price: $12.00
Hong Kong Way
In any other context, this would be a nice, clear night view of the territory. There’s nothing sensitive about the photo, so we show it uncensored. But it is part of the broad series of cards documenting 2019 events, so there’s something going on here we’re not quite certain about. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20308864
Price: $6.00
Blockade
During all the turmoil, it has been a common tactic for persons to open umbrellas and hover behind them while roads were blocked or other activities were being planned. It’s so tempting to say more here, but we can’t. Unused card, blank on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 20308865C*
Price: $14.00
Ambulance
You need to look closely at this to see it’s actually artwork and not a photograph. Yet it accurately represents the occasional situation where throngs parted to allow ambulances through. Unused card, and the reverse has extensive political captioning and two QR codes. One of our personal favourites. Grade: 1

Code: 20308866C
Price: $29.00
We will keep …
If blocking out certain sections were necessary on any card, it would be this one. (The characters we felt secure enough to include just say “Hong Kong”.) Unused, and blank on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 20308867C
Price: $12.00
Dark Tower
Just dark. Much activity took (takes) place at night anyway. Unused, and blank on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20308868C*
Price: $12.00
Sunrise
Heavily symbolic. Unused, blank on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20308869C*
Price: $12.00
The night view of Central district
Mailed in 2019, with four different hand-cancelled stamps and blue trilingual airmail label. All you could hope for in a typical Hong Kong postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 20308870
Price: $4.00
Newsstand during 1997 Handover
What we definitely can say about this card: it has character. Let’s hope we don’t forget everything we should say about it. Published in Hong Kong, commemorating events during the 1997 handover from Great Britain to China; and mailed from Hong Kong (in 2019) with four stamps and three postmarks, along with a blue Airmail label. Someone in the post office marked off the address, as if to help someone else find it — an unnecessary move. But the photo itself is of a newsstand in PR China, not Hong Kong, and we know this because the newspaper and the blue road sign (“alight here”) are in simplified and not traditional Chinese characters. Of course if you can read Chinese, you’ll know more. Grade: 2

Code: 20308871
Price: $6.00
Global Postcard Sales
Of course, this is us! The front and back of our one and only (so far) ad card. If you’d like one, just write and tell us … and we will mail one to you, stamped, for no charge. Can’t beat that offer!

Code: 20308872
Price: $0.00
Tram 143 (not a postcard)
We took this photo some years later to show you what the same tram looks like now, and in a different part of the city. Reminder, this is not a postcard.

Code: 20308872A
Something Wrong
… in the text, and with the card, which had been on public display and which has tape around all four edges. Otherwise unused, there’s a full explanation on the reverse. As with other cards having a “*” in the index number, this card is not for sale to Hong Kong residents. Grade: 5

Code: 20308873C*
Price: $4.00
2030
This unused item is printed on very flimsy paper stock, and could be a postcard or just a small poster. As you see, we had to remove a fair amount of text, all in Chinese. As with similar items in this series, it has a “*” in the index number, so is not for sale to Hong Kong residents. Grade: 1

Code: 20308874C*
Price: $6.00

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