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The Zenith Shopping Food (Hong Kong)
Flimsy 5-1/8″ x 8-1/4″ card advertising a residential and shopping complex in Hong Kong’s Wanchai District. Card was mailed using Hongkong Post’s Circular Service. Grade: 1
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Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe (Hong Kong)
A card printed on both sides for this 2011 festival in Hong Kong. Unlike many of our ad cards, if you were determined to send this as a normal card, you could find a way. Grade: 1
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Stanford University (Hong Kong)
How U.S. universities promote themselves overseas. Card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ and was mailed using Hongkong Post’s Circular Service. Grade: 2
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Hong Kong Wine Vault
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card was mailed to local residents in 2019 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular postage imprint. Fully printed on both sides, the reverse shows various wines for sale, and a QR code. Grade: 1
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Bahlsen Fabrikladen, Oldenburg (Germany)
An ad card, mailed with two stamps, full postmark, and trilingual Luftpost label affixed. Grade: 1
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Energie (Lithuania)
Produced in, and mailed from, Lithuania with stamp and full Vilnius postmark. Grade: 1
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Reply-paid card for New Jersey (1908)
The printed message from New Jersey Registration and Trust Co. is a compelling little ad the likes of which we rarely see these days. Apparently Chesapeake Iron Works didn’t take the bait, however. Grade: 3
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Coronet VSQ Brandy
Unused Mike Roberts ad card SC5300 of an ad on a highway billboard. The message area is taken up with ad text directed at retailers or wholesalers or distributors, but not to end users. Grade: 2
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Sichuan Lab (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ restaurant card was mailed to local residents in 2019 using Hongkong Post’s bilingual English/Chinese-language Circular postage imprint. Fully printed on both sides, the reverse shows cost and what your dinner could look like. Grade: 1
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The Zenith (Hong Kong)
In Hong Kong, The Zenith is known primarily as a residential building in Wanchai. This 5-1/8″ x 8-1/4″ circular ad (with pre-printed Hongkong Post payment, in Chinese) has coupons for eating and other establishments. Grade: 1
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500M Fibre Optic Broadband (Hong Kong)
Upgrade! Upgrade! Take your chances! This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card was mailed, with pre-printed English postage, to residents in 2011. You should see how small the fine print is. Grade: 1
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LePages Glue Mends Everything
We did a little Google research on this card. It’s interesting, and too much to write about here. The card wasn’t postally mailed, and while it looks like all of this was handwritten by someone, in fact the only extra writing is in those two clefts through the heart, and a small pencil mark on the reverse. This card dates back to the early 1900s, according to the copyright date. Grade: 2
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Wilson Parking (Hong Kong)
This 4″ x 8-1/4″ card was mailed to local residents in 2019 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular postage imprint. Fully printed on both sides, the reverse shows costs and map, and what looks like your free gift — from them, not from us. Grade: 1
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Dymocks (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong was well supplied with bookstores, even as chains are going out of business elsewhere–and, now, here too. Here’s your chance to do that all by yourself. Grade: 1
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The Store House (Hong Kong)
The median size of a flat in Hong Kong is about 450 sq. ft., or 40 m2, so storage space is at a premium. This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ circular advertisement is in English on one side, and Chinese on the other. Grade: 1
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Manks, Scandinavian Modern Design (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card with pre-printed English-language bulk rate postage has a nice map with detailed directions on the back. Grade: 1
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Jazz Marathon (Hong Kong)
Very large (5-7/8″ x 8-5/8″) card, fully printed on both sides, mailed using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint in 2019. Grade: 1
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Your perfect yoga pants (Hong Kong)
Ad card mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2011. Grade: 1
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Zouk Out Dance Music Festival 2011 (Singapore)
If you know Singapore, you know Zouk. If not, you can Google it. Unused ad card. Grade: 1
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Mil So’les (Singapore)
Mil So’les is “a social enterprise whose mission is to provide a sustainable channel to support social business run by non profit organisations around Asia.” And this is an ad card. Unused. Grade: 1
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KiddieTazer (Singapore)
Who says Singapore isn’t loosening up? Well, not us! Or, who knows, maybe this is serious. We guess not. But it is Singapore, after all. No, seriously … Unused ad card. Grade: 1
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Singapore International Competition for Chinese Orchestral Composition 2011
Two of these unused ad cards are available. Grades: 1
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Airport Bourbon
This card was produced in France and mailed from The Netherlands in 2011, with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Jazz Gala (Hong Kong)
Card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ and was mailed in 2019 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language pre-printed Circular Service imprint. The card is fully printed on both sides. Grade: 1
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Rose & Goss Glue (USA)
Ad card 308, very old, unused. Grade: 2
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Helen Lai’s Dance Theatre (Hong Kong)
Plaza X, “An Xtraordinary Combination of Fiery Tango, Ice Skating and Bach”. Four unused cards are available for this 2011 performance. Fully printed on the back. Grades: 1
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Theatre du Pif, God of Carnage (Hong Kong)
Three of these unused but fully printed cards are available. We think this performance was in 2011. Grades: 1
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Cantonese Opera (Hong Kong)
Three of these (unused) cards are available. They cannot really be used as postcards because the reverse is fully and darkly pre-printed. Grades: 1
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A Panoramic View of Lives Off Screen (Hong Kong)
Unlike some of this type of card, this one could–with a little effort–be used as a postcard. Five are available. Grades: 1
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Heineken’s ad, early 1950s
Mailed from The Netherlands in 2011 with stamp and some of the postmark (Grade: 2, $2) and then we have another one available, mailed in 2013 with stamp and full postmark (Grade: 1, $3)
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five senses (Hong Kong)
The Five Senses Herbal Pad Products, on a card asking you to “Please reuse this as a bookmark,” and mailed through Hongkong Post’s Circular Service with pre-printed postage in 2011.
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Taiwanese old advertising
Unused card, fully explained (in Chinese) on the reverse. Though this is not an “advertising” card by normal definition, we think it deserves a place in this category anyway. Grade: 1
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2012 GFI HKFC Tens (Hong Kong)
Two of these unused ad cards are available. Grades: 1
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Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Hong Kong)
Two unused cards are available. Grades: 1
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VW
It’s not so much an ad card as it is a card showing an ad. The design itself, not our scan, cuts off some of the text. This was mailed from PR China in 2011 with two large and artistic stamps, and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Cheating Death
Unused card originating in the Netherlands. Grade: 1
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Think Big
Unused card from the Netherlands. Grade: 1
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T(h)ree of Life
Unused card from Belgium. Grade: 1
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om in te bijten (Netherlands)
Unused card from Netherlands. We put this phrase into Google Translate, and it came back as: “to bite”. Help us improve that? Grade: 1
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Travel agency (Portugal)
Mailed in 2012 with two large stamps. The writer says this means: “These women can only be found in heaven.” Given the double-meaning for an airline ad, we hope something may have been lost in translation. Grade: 2