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Flower Street
Something is very, very nice about this unused card. It makes Hong Kong look so peaceful. Sigh! Significantly aged on the reverse, and published by M. Sternberg 3693, it has minor edge abrasions but those of us who live here find it compelling to look at. Grade: 3

Code: 20308127
Price: $112.00
Water Front of H. Kong
Unused, unattributed, and somewhat faded real photo card with very pale white caption on lower front. Not sure of the year, but it has been a long, long time since Hong Kong Island looked like this. Grade: 2

Code: 20308128
Price: $47.00
Night View
This is actually the same photo as card 20308130 but the conditions are greatly different so we list them separately. Unattributed, unused, unspectacular real photo card, overexposed on the right side. But if you’re looking for a genuine old Hong Kong card–and it’s true there were not a lot of lights in those days–here it is. Grade: 3

Code: 20308129
Price: $32.00
Night View
This real photo card was mailed on 30th November 1926 to a Mr. Minagawa in Tokyo. There’s an extensive message (in Japanese) and the fully readable postmark went right through to the front. The 4-cent stamp is there, and in every respect this is a classic old Hong Kong postcard. Grade: 2

Code: 20308130
Price: $78.00
Hongkong University
Not postally used, nonetheless this unattributed card 150 (“Made in Japan”) has a full message on the reverse and was ready to be mailed to Taipeh. You can translate? Great sepia-toned item for specialty collectors of university cards. Grade: 4

Code: 20308131
Price: $39.00
View of harbour
An old Graca & Co. card 18861, mailed to Hong Kong from Japan in 1983, with (therefore) a contemporary stamp and full Kyobashi postmark. The card has significant edge and corner abrasions, but these would disappear with proper framing. By the way … bamboo scaffolding persists to this day. Grade: 4

Code: 20308132
Price: $49.00
Praya East
Looking a lot like today’s Western or Sheung Wan area, this unused card “specially made for: The Graeco Egyptian Tobacco Store, Hongkong” No. 28 (but made in Germany) is still in excellent condition. Grade: 2

Code: 20308133
Price: $65.00
Hong Kong by Night
These real-photo “Hong Kong by Night” cards somehow all look the same, and maybe they were way back when, but this one is definitely brighter than the previous entries. It’s unattributed, unused, and normally aged. Grade: 2

Code: 20308134
Price: $52.00
Hongkong Hotel from Pedder Street
This unused card 311 published by A.H. & Co. has seemingly random colors all over it. Grade: 2

Code: 20308137
Price: $62.00
Island view (Japanese caption)
For many years we’ve held several cards of non-Japanese locales but whose captions (and, usually, messages) are all in Japanese. This is an unused card showing what is now Central and Western Districts. It does have the name “Koto” printed in a tiny diamond on the reverse. There is also a visible but unobtrusive hole punched through the top front, just below the mountaintop line. Grade: 5

Code: 20308139
Price: $16.00
Sedan Chair Rickshaw
Can you imagine that sedan chairs were still running in Hong Kong as late as the 1950s? Of course you can. This card definitely predates the 50s. It’s unused, published by M. Sternberg, and is often seen in various postcard reference books. Grade: 2

Code: 20308143
Price: $95.00
Indian Policemen and Prisoner in Stocks
This too is an iconic Hong Kong postcard, to be found in various reference books. Published by Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, unused, yet aged and a little bit abraded, it is an important part of Hong Kong’s postcard history. Grade: 3

Code: 20308144
Price: $79.00
General view from the harbour
This “General View from the Harbour” puts a lot more emphasis on view than on harbour. It’s an unused card, published by The Hongkong Pictorial Postcard Co., and with three different index numbers: 170310, 57 (on the front), and 635:06. There’s that bamboo scaffolding again. Grade: 2

Code: 20308145
Price: $89.00
Wanchai Harbour
The Wanchai District of Hong Kong changes notably by the week. The original shoreline is now quite far inland. The batwing junks are gone. The postcard lives on. Unused. Grade: 3

Code: 20308148
Price: $99.00
Barracks on The Peak, formerly Austin Hotel
It seems odd that in Hong Kong’s early days there were hotels on the Peak, but now, with many visitors, there are none. If you go to the lookout points these days, it’s hard to imagine where this scene actually was. Unused card, mottling on reverse, published by M. Sternberg. Grade: 3

Code: 20308149
Price: $61.00
New Post Office
The good news about this unused card, published by Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, is that it will appeal to specialty collectors of cards with postal themes. The bad news is that the card is abraded on the front and heavily stained on the reverse. As people say these days, “it is what it is.” Grade: 5

Code: 20308150
Price: $19.00
Looking towards Kowloon
Fading and atmospheric unused real photo card #71 published by Brewer & Co., Hongkong. Apart from aging, the card is in great condition. Grade: 1

Code: 20308153
Price: $65.00
West side of a city
Classic antique card. Interesting caption, “WEST SIDE of A CITY. HongKong.” All those tiny dots in the harbour look to be sampans. The card is unused and unattributed, and the usual post card printing on the reverse is upside down. Grade: 2

Code: 20308154
Price: $59.00
Queens and Princess Buildings
Unnumbered, unused Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store card, normally aged on the front and a bit stained on the back. The land is still there. The buildings aren’t. This is Hong Kong. Grade: 3

Code: 20308156
Price: $64.00
N.S. Rosario and typhoon
A good search engine will give you more of the story, but the caption on this unused M. Sternberg card tells you most of what you need to know. Significant album indents on the corners, and someone has made an inked notation on the reverse of the type of vessel the Rosario was. Grade: 4

Code: 20308157
Price: $54.00
Central Market
This is an unused and unnumbered Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store postcard, with the pencilled notation “c.1920” on reverse. Card is notably aged but the photo is clear and intact, and is an iconic scene of Hong Kong in that era. Grade: 4

Code: 20308162
Price: $59.00
View of Queen’s Gardens
Two of these unused cards from Hongkong Pictorial Postcard Co. are available, and they are identical in every way but one: though they each have some master index number 616:06, one also has #170318 but the other has #102049. Each of these cards has some album indents on the corners but apart from aging, they’re undamaged. Grades: 2

Code: 20308164
Price: $29.00
Greetings from Hongkong Chinese Fortune Teller
This is another card sometimes seen in reference books. It’s published by M. Sternberg #2418, unused but heavily handled, and has a pencilled notation “c.1900” and other index numbers on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20308165
Price: $59.00
Signalstation on the Peak
Somewhat unremarkable M. Sternberg card 2395, unused but heavily handled and with pencilled notations on reverse including the possible date of 1910. Rounded edges, aged, old. Grade: 4

Code: 20308166
Price: $29.00
The Fountain at the Botanical Garden
Your chance to get this unused O.F. Ribeiro card 34674 at a value price. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just not too exciting. Grade: 2

Code: 20308170
Price: $8.50
Botanic Garden
Really nice, unused and unattributed real photo specimen showing the early Botanic Garden with great clarity. Compare this one with the more professional but far more boring card on the list just before. The reverse is printed upside down. Grade: 1

Code: 20308171
Price: $22.50
View of Fountain in Botanical Gardens
Unused Hongkong Pictorial Postcard 674:06 (#170328) with corner album indents. Grade: 3

Code: 20308173
Price: $14.50
Chinese Procession in Hongkong
This is a magnificent, unused card. It looks just like Central District at lunch hour! (Just kidding.) (Not really.) From Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, the front caption (“Note the long Dragon”) seems like overkill. Grade: 2

Code: 20308174
Price: $89.00
Hongkong Habour (sic)
Unused A.H. & Co. card 352 with the panoramic view and the misspelling of “Harbour” on the front caption. Grade: 2

Code: 20308175
Price: $59.00
Lugard Road The Peak H. Kong
Lugard Road still exists as a popular way to walk around Victoria Peak, but it looks a lot less formidable now than it did when this real photo card was produced. Unused and unattributed card. Grade: 2

Code: 20308176
Price: $38.00
Peak Distric (sic)
Misprint notwithstanding, technically this is the view of Central District and Kowloon from the Peak. The real photo card is unused and unattributed, with album fading on the four corners. The undamaged card is aging, not too gracefully. Grade: 3

Code: 20308177
Price: $49.00
Peak Hotel
Search engines tell us this hotel burned down in 1938. There’s certainly no trace of it now. The real photo card, unused and unattributed, has album indents on the corners, and the lower left corner is significantly creased. We very much wish we could have seen this hotel while it was still standing. Grade: 4

Code: 20308178
Price: $129.00
Flower Street
If you’ve a good eye, you’ll think this is the same as card #20308127, and you would be right except for two things: the caption is written differently, and it has a different publisher. The other one is from M. Sternberg, and this one is from Turco-Egyptian Tobacco, the two companies that had a near-monopoly on Hong Kong’s postcards of the day. This card has an abrasion on the front, and is somewhat stained, but the picture is intact–and beautiful. Grade: 4

Code: 20308179
Price: $82.00
Central Harbour and View of Hongkong
Authentic old unused M. Sternberg card 7745. Mottling a bit on front and reverse, and frankly it’s just a little bleak. But it is the original view, and authentic historical relic. Grade: 2

Code: 20308181
Price: $55.00
Clock Tower from Blake Pier
Hongkong Pictorial Postcard Co. card 632:06 and 174279, unused and in absolutely terrific condition. Grade: 1

Code: 20308182
Price: $89.00
City of Victoria
Unused O.F. Ribeiro card 5995, aging, but looking exactly like a very old postcard should look. That hill is still there. Nothing else is. Grade: 2

Code: 20308184
Price: $55.00
The Peak of Hongkong
This is an unused and unnumbered Turco-Egyptian card, again showing how the Peak area used to be a fair bit more populated down the slopes than it is now. The card shows abrasions around the edge, is heavily aged, and has a vertical crease down the middle. Grade: 4

Code: 20308185
Price: $29.00
Happy Valley
Unattributed card No. 22, made in Germany, unused, very minor corner abrasion. Grade: 2

Code: 20308187
Price: $39.00
Mecca of tourists (Japan Air Lines)
Post-WWII card sub-captioned “Wings of the New Japan,” issued by Japan Air Lines and showing a tranquil view of a quiet harbour. Mottling on the reverse, with minor edge abrasions. Grade: 3

Code: 20308189
Price: $29.00
Junk in Hongkong-Harbour
Card 17 printed in Germany, and Specially Made for The Graeco Egyptian Tobacco Store. Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 20308192
Price: $26.00

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