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honestbee (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card is fully printed on both sides and was mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2017 using Hongkong Post’s pre-printed English-language Circular Service postage. Grade: 1
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Shanghai Commercial Bank (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card is fully printed on both sides and was mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2017 using Hongkong Post’s pre-printed Chinese-language Circular Service postage. Grade: 1
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J.W. Marriott Hotel (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card is fully printed on both sides and was distributed to letter boxes of residents of one Hong Kong residential complex by hand in 2017. No postage. Grade: 1
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Laser Kool (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card is fully printed on both sides and was mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2017 using Hongkong Post’s pre-printed English-language Circular Service postage. Grade: 1
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Chinese Arts & Crafts, Chinese Porcelain Exhibition (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-1/2″ x 8-1/8″, is fully printed on both sides, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Grade: 1
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Dream Cruises (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-5/8″, is surprisingly blank on one side, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″, is fully printed on both sides, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. You will have a great idea how Pizza Hut in Hong Kong is different from Pizza Hut where you live! Grade: 1
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For Sale By Public Tender (Hong Kong)
It may not be unique to Hong Kong, but is definitely distinctive, that the (possibly forced) sale of one single flat is marketed through mass mailing. This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card was mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2017 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language pre-printed Circular Service postage. As with other, similar cards, this is fully printed on both sides, nearly entirely in Chinese except for fine print–which itself is extraordinarily fine. Grade: 1
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Sculpture by Kerry Vesper (USA)
One of our largest cards, in real size, 6″ x 8-1/2″, this is printed on both sides but can be mailed because there’s room for that. See our Blog entry about Kerry for information about his work. Grade: 1
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Lacoste (Hong Kong)
Mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2017 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language circular service imprint. Grade: 1
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The Refinery (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card is fully printed on both sides and was mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2019 using Hongkong Post’s pre-printed English-language Circular Service postage. You wouldn’t know from this side of the card, but the shop sells gifts. Grade: 1
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Festiva at JP Plaza (Hong Kong)
This 5-3/4″ x 8-1/4″ ad card was mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2017, promoting a consortium of restaurants in Causeway Bay. Pre-printed Hongkong Post Chinese-language Circular Service postage imprint. Grade: 1
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Pure Massage (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card is fully printed on both sides and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s pre-printed Chinese-language Circular Service postage. Grade: 1
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E.P. Wilbur Trust Company (Pennsylvania, USA)
Really nice old (1910) ad card, mailed with indistinct postmark, and the stamp is still there. We were especially taken with the offer of 3% interest on savings accounts. By today’s standards, go for it! Grade: 1
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The Highwaymen
Unused card of an exhibition in Florida. Grade: 1
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Chaos & Order (Australia)
Unused card promoting 120 years of collecting at RMIT (University) in Melbourne. Grade: 1
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Box Hill (Australia)
Unused card promoting a mobile food journey through Melbourne by bus. Two cards are available. Grades: 1
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Perhaps I Should Abstain (Clarke and Mulcaire) (Australia)
Unused card. It looks like coffee, and if so we’re not certain why the artists are projecting this bad rap on the beverage, but art is really subjective. Grade: 1
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Shifting Space (Australia)
Unused card for a 2018 group exhibition in Melbourne. Grade: 1
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Having a moment with my street (Hong Kong)
This is an ad card for two F&B outlets in Swire Properties’ “Star Street Precinct” of Wanchai. Looks good, right? All of that building you see on the right, with Classified and Pizza Express, is now gone — pulled down by Swire and to be replaced with something undoubtedly much larger. (We live nearby, and see daily changes.) Mailed with three different stamps and two postmarks. Grade: 1
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Global Postcard Sales (Hong Kong)
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!
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Tram 143 (not a postcard) (Hong Kong)
We took this photo some years later to show you what the same tram looks like now (December 2024), and in a different part of the city. Reminder, this is not a postcard.
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Turkish Airlines (Hong Kong)
This ad card was mailed to Hong Kong residents (using Hongkong Post’s English-language Circular Service postage imprint) in late 2018 for a contest linked with the opening of Istanbul’s new airport. The point is to write your New Year’s wish and post the card back to a local (HK) address for a chance of winning a trip. But that’s not all! There are terms and conditions! Including one that will winnow out quite a few potential entrants. Above all, be “stylish”. Grade: 1
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Working Holiday Scheme – Australia (Hong Kong)
When we first came to Hong Kong and encountered local use of the word “scheme,” we were surprised, as the meanings of this term do vary greatly across countries. But this one is legitimate, and earlier entries in our site appear for earlier versions of the scheme. Anyway this plan is sponsored by Hong Kong Government’s Labour Department, and broad rules are in the caption on the back of the 2020 card. Unused, and two are available. Grade: 1
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Working Holiday Scheme – Austria (Hong Kong)
This plan is sponsored by Hong Kong Government’s Labour Department, and broad rules are in the caption on the back of the 2020 card. Unused, and two are available. Grade: 1
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Working Holiday Scheme – Italy (Hong Kong)
This plan is sponsored by Hong Kong Government’s Labour Department, and broad rules are in the caption on the back of the 2020 card. Unused, and two are available. Grade: 1
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Working Holiday Scheme – Korea (Hong Kong)
This plan is sponsored by Hong Kong Government’s Labour Department, and broad rules are in the caption on the back of the 2020 card. Unused, and three are available. Grade: 1
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Working Holiday Scheme – Netherlands (Hong Kong)
This plan is sponsored by Hong Kong Government’s Labour Department, and broad rules are in the caption on the back of the 2020 card. Unused, and two are available. Grade: 1
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Working Holiday Scheme – United Kingdom (Hong Kong)
This plan is sponsored by Hong Kong Government’s Labour Department, and broad rules are in the caption on the back of the 2020 card. Unused, and three are available. Grade: 1
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Grand Hyatt (Hong Kong)
This 5″x 7-1/4″ card is fully printed on both sides and was mailed in 2020 using Hongkong Post’s bilingual Circular Service postage imprint. Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″, is fully printed on both sides, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut Roulette Cheesy (Hong Kong)
More unusual concoctions from Pizza Hut on this 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card, fully printed on both sides, and mailed in 2020 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Grade: 1
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Ruhrpott – Ausstellung Painted in Blood (Germany)
Not sure if this is for an art exhibit or a rock festival but here it is, mailed in 2020 with two stamps and indistinct postmark. Grade: 2
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Das Futterhaus (Germany)
An ad card mailed in 2020 with stamp, postmark, and extra stickers on the reverse. The text on the front says (in English) “I am for hibernation!” Us too. Grade: 4
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Buvez Coca-Cola (Canada)
An unused, official card from 1997, reproducing a 1947 point-of-sale display for the Canadian market. It’s an advertisement, but not an ad card per se. Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″, is fully printed on both sides, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Pizza Hut in Hong Kong gets more creative. We await a version with chicken feet. Grade: 1
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Aukro (Czech Republic)
As far as we can tell, from far away, Aukro seems to be the eBay of the Czech Republic. Then Google translates the legend on the front of the card as “We carry out your collectibles”. Close enough. The card was mailed in 2020 from Prague, with stamp and blue Prioritaire label. Grade: 1
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Emperor Financial Group (Hong Kong)
Mailed in 2021, using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint, this card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″. Ads on one side, calendar on the other. Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut – Cheese (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″, is fully printed on both sides, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. How many colours of cheese do they make? Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″, is fully printed on both sides, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Exceptionally, our scan shows both sides of the card — because we have two of them. Grade: 1