Advertising – Page 2 – Global Postcard Sales

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Oxfam, Fair Trade Products (Hong Kong)
Two unused cards are available. FAIRTRADE products are for sale at the Oxfam shop in Hong Kong. Grades: 1

Code: 30100041
Price: $2.00
Haig whisky (PR China)
Unused card from a series called “1930’s Shanghai Calendar Girls,” but please do note these are new, contemporary postcards. Unusually, the retailer in this ad was in Hong Kong. Grade: 1

Code: 30100042
Price: $1.00
Eddie Palmieri, Afro-Caribbean Jazz Sextet
Six unused cards available, promoting a show at the 2008 Hong Kong Arts Festival. Grades: 1

Code: 30100043
Price: $2.00
Coca-Cola (PR China)
Unused card from a series called “1930’s Shanghai Calendar Girls,” but please do note these are new, contemporary postcards. Grade: 1

Code: 30100044
Price: $1.00
Zingaro, Extravaganza of Horses (Hong Kong)
Seven unused cards are available, promoting this 2008 event. Grade: 1

Code: 30100045
Price: $2.00
Kwong Sang Hong (PR China)
Unused card from a series called “1930’s Shanghai Calendar Girls,” but please do note these are new, contemporary postcards. As with an earlier entry, another Hong Kong retailer. Grade: 1

Code: 30100046
Price: $1.00
The Dayton Pump & Manufacturing Co. (Ohio, USA)
This is a foldover card and we are showing you what one side of it looks like when unfolded. Flip it over and you would see an unaddressed, pre-printed stamped reply card on one part and a confirmation of order on the other part. Unused. By the way, this company made Rapidayton pumps. Rapidayton pumps ended after the company was changed in 1955 to the Tait Manufacturing Co. The assets of the Dayton Pump & Manufacturing Co. were used to create the Frank M. Tait Foundation, which sits today on North Main Street in Dayton. Grade: 1

Code: 30100047
Price: $2.00
Hypnae Center (Singapore)
Unused card for a hypnotherapy centre in Singapore. Grade: 1

Code: 30100048
Price: $1.00
Snapfish
This nicely designed unused 2007 card from Snapfish by HP in Singapore has a hole in the middle–but it’s supposed to be there. Grade: 1

Code: 30100049
Price: $3.00
Singapore Health Promotion Board
As only Singapore could do it, this extraordinarily thick card promotes five steps to build a healthier mind, with “I (heart) me” as the focal point. Each of these icons is encircled by a sort of incision, so we’re not sure whether these are meant to be pushed out as stickers or not. We haven’t tried. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30100050
Price: $3.00
Orpheus (Hong Kong)
Unused 2008 card for a Hong Kong Arts Festival production, warns that “This production contains nudity,” a big thing in Hong Kong. Grade: 1

Code: 30100051
Price: $1.00
Fendi, The Wall (Beijing, October 2007)
Unused card from a show on 19th October 2007, presumably in Beijing. Grade: 1

Code: 30100052
Price: $2.00
Anti-flu message (Singapore)
From 2007, an unused card brought to you by GlaxoSmithKline and the Singapore Infection Control Association. Grade: 1

Code: 30100053
Price: $2.00
Shelwin’s Mens Wear
The only extraordinary thing about this humble card, of which we show you the front but not the ad on the reverse, is that it survived all these years. It is for a one-day sale at a mens wear store in North Hollywood, California, in about 1965 or so. Incidentally … no sign of Shelwin’s in Google now. Grade: 1

Code: 30100054
Price: $1.00
Discovery Bay Market (Hong Kong)
If you live in Hong Kong, you receive ads like this through the mail. They have what amounts to a pre-printed “bulk mail” stamp on the reverse, but no address, because they go to everyone. Discovery Bay is a residential area on Lantau, Hong Kong’s largest island. This card would have been from 2008. Grade: 1

Code: 30100055
Price: $2.00
Kwong Sang Hong 1928 New Year poster
This restorative tonic was a big thing back then. While the poster was from 1928 (and not to be confused with the similar 1927 poster we also have), the five unused cards we have are 50 or 60 years newer. Grades: 1

Code: 30100056
Price: $2.00
The Jarecki Chemical Company, Sandusky (Ohio, USA)
Unused reply card whose reverse has blanks to fill in telling the company where the customer lived and how many tons of (we’re thinking fertilizer) they would “probably” use or sell this Fall. Here’s something we found through a Google search: “The plant operated from 1887 until 1920 when it was sold to the Armour Fertilizer Co. (Armour ceased operations in Sandusky in the 1960s.) In the early 1900s, Gustav Jarecki, Jr. moved toCincinnatiwhere he established another branch of the company.” Grade: 1

Code: 30100057
Price: $2.00
Pacific Coffee (Hong Kong)
Pacific Coffee is an Asian version of Starbucks, quite popular and very good. At least we think so. Three of these unused cards are available, with Hong Kong bulk mail postage pre-printed. Grades: 1

Code: 30100058
Price: $2.00
Lieber and Safir Co. (Milwaukee, USA)
On the back, this unused reply card leads with: “I want to make MONEY!” and solicits registration for a coming sale (of what?), with special terms. Too late, though, the company’s long gone. Grade: 1

Code: 30100059
Price: $1.00
Illegal structure (Hong Kong)
The name refers to “a site-specific architectural installation exhibition” in 2009 as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. The two pieces of this card available are the size and shape of postcards but the reverse is purple with white design elements and they are not really meant to be sent through the mail. Grades: 1

Code: 30100060
Price: $1.00
35th HK Arts Festival, Asian Super Guitar Project
Four unused cards from this 2007 festival are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30100061
Price: $1.00
Escapade – rugby
Five of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30100062
Price: $2.00
GFI HKFC Tens 2009
Three of these unused cards are available. Grades 1

Code: 30100063
Price: $2.00
Australia working holiday
Five unused cards from 2009 are available, targeting Hong Kong residents aged between 18 and 30 who might want to be in Australia, New Zealand, or Ireland for up to 12 months. All the information is on the reverse. There may still be time for you to apply. Grades: 1

Code: 30100064
Price: $3.00
Staatskapelle Dresden (Hong Kong)
Two of these unused cards from 2009 are available. They are fully pre-printed on the reverse. Grades: 1

Code: 30100065
Price: $1.00
International Soccer 7s, 2009
Nine of these unused cards are available. They really are postcards, and have a place for the stamp, though a writer would need to work to squeeze the address in amongst all the printing on the reverse. Grades: 1

Code: 30100066
Price: $2.00
Factory for rent in Hong Kong
Four of these unused cards are available. You need to work at it to know exactly what they’re selling, as the English is a bit “unusual.” Grades: 1

Code: 30100067
Price: $1.00
Lucky Strike calendar (Malaysia)
What makes this card unusual is not so much the 1986 calendar sponsored by Lucky Strike Filter cigarettes–though you do not see a cigarette–as it is that it was used by the Malaysian Post Office to introduce a postcode system in the country. Each card has the correct code and city for the intended recipient’s area. It was delivered, but being from the Post Office itself, was of course not stamped or postmarked. Fully pre-printed in Bahasa Malaysia (the Malay language) on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 30100068
Price: $6.00
Camel cigarettes, burning (Greek)
Four of these Camel cigarette advertising cards are available. We think they say “never throw a burning camel out the window,” or the Greek equivalent. Two of the cards are unused (Grades: 1, $5 each). Two were mailed: one from Malaysia with an uncancelled stamp in 1997, and one from Hong Kong in 2000 with full postmark. Those two have some postmark smudging on the front (Grades: 2, $3 each).

Code: 30100069
Price: $3.00
Camel cigarettes, Spain
This might mean “handsome Ponte, tonight we have an appointment,” or maybe not. Our Spanish ability is not so good. Nine of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30100071
Price: $2.00
Bayer (Mexico)
You probably need to know a bit about Mexican food and culture to appreciate this 100%, but it’s very clever. Two unused cards are available, from the 1990s. Grades: 1

Code: 30100072
Price: $2.00
Teva – Destination: Unimportant (Australia)
Unused card from 1999. Grade: 1

Code: 30100073
Price: $1.00
Expired
No, we don’t know what it’s advertising, but it makes its point. Two unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30100074
Price: $1.00
Make It Happen
Two of these unused Kwik-e cards are available, just beginning to show their age. Grades: 1

Code: 30100075
Price: $1.00
Tuborg (Malaysia)
Two of these Tuborg cards are available, each mailed in Malaysia in 1991. One has one stamp, one has two stamps, but neither has a fully legible postmark. One edge of each card is perforated. Grades: 2

Code: 30100076
Price: $2.00
Winston balloon (Hong Kong)
Five of these unused cards are available, showing the Winston balloon that was launched in Hong Kong in 1980. Four cards are grade 1, one is grade 3 ($1).

Code: 30100077
Price: $2.00
Acorn – this is what we are
From a large Asian market research company, this unused card, with some age stains on the reverse. Nice concept. Grade: 2

Code: 30100078
Price: $1.00
New Wave – Bad hairday
Mailed from Japan, with stamp but illegible postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30100079
Price: $2.00
Rough Guide, More Women Travel
Mailed in 1995 with a full Los Angeles postmark and a 40-cent William Piper airmail stamp. Grade: 1

Code: 30100080
Price: $2.00
Rover Japan
This card is too international even for us. UK-based, presented by Rover Japan, mailed from Netherlands (with stamp and postmark) to Malaysia. Grade: 1

Code: 30100081
Price: $1.00

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