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Iguana and multiple views (Aruba)
Unused card focusing on the iguana, “Aruba’s most exotic island animal resident.” Good thing they qualified that. Grade: 1
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Elephants (Thailand)
Unused Maekmai House card CH.195. At least one of these two looks like (s)he’s having a good time! Grade: 1
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Elephants in water (Thailand)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Elephant art (Thailand)
You may choose to believe. Or not. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Elephant Festival, Chaiyaburee (Laos)
Unused TDN card LVA-023. Grade: 1
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Mouse-deer (Sarawak, East Malaysia)
Unused card, 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″. Grade: 1
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I Love Borneo (East Malaysia)
Unused 5″ x 7″ card SHC/PC/117 from Sabah Handicraft Centre, showing a Proboscis Monkey and an Orang Utan. Card dates from roughly 2003. Grade: 1
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Bako National Park (Sarawak, East Malaysia)
Unused Sabah Handicraft Centre card SHC/PC/138, dated approx. 1991, 5″ x 7″, showing a mangrove plankwalk on the Lintang Trail, bearded pigs, and Nepenthes ampullaria. Grade: 1
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Semonggok Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, orang utan (Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia)
Inventive, unused, 5″ x 7″ Borneo postcard — like others in this series, aging just a bit. Grade: 1
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Barking Deer (East Malaysia)
Two of these older, unused 5″ x 7″ cards are available. They do not indicate country of origin but we got them from Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo). Grades: 1
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Sea Horse (USA)
Somewhere, someone collects sea horse postcards. You? This one is not postally used, but has a 1973 date written with a name on the back. Grade: 3
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Ocean Park (Hong Kong) (Maximum Cards) (set of 6)
A set of six maximum cards, issued by Hongkong Post in August 2020, with philatelic postmarks. The animals include the King Penguin, Giant Panda, Meerkat, Sichuan Golden Snub-nosed Monkey, Toco Toucan, and Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin. All at that time to be found in one of Hong Kong’s two big theme parks, both of which had struggled mightily during the pandemic. Grades: 1
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Family of Gila Monsters on a Stump (USA)
Unused but extremely heavily aged Curteich-Chicago “C.T. Art-Colortone” card 4B-H1226 (D-83) with a small tear on one corner. The caption says the gila monster is “ordinarily slow and unstable in its movements”. Yet it survives, where others don’t. Grade: 4
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Laubfrosch (Germany)
In English, a tree frog, on a card mailed in 2020 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Iguana (Guam)
Unused, older card. Grade: 1
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Whitetail Deer (USA)
Unused. No location specified other than “North American”. Grade: 1
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Camels at Sitra (Bahrain)
Unused, somewhat aging but clean card. Grade: 2
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Close Encounter
The scene is almost certainly somewhere in the U.K. as the 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ card was bought and mailed from there (late 1980s? early 1990s?) with two stamps, airmail label, and partial postmark) but, annoyingly, the animal is not identified. We think it’s a musk ox. Grade: 1
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New Forest, Ponies (England)
Unused R.A. (Postcards) Ltd. real-photo card 8331. Grade: 1
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Cheetah (Kenya)
At the rate things are going, the only way many people will ever be able to see a cheetah is in a zoo or on a postcard. We hope not. This card was mailed in 1992, with two stamps and a little bit of a postmark. Grade: 1
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Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Ecuador)
Like the ultimate selfie on this unused card from a Lindblad/National Geographic tour of the islands. Grade: 1
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Giant Tortoise (Ecuador)
Identified in the caption of this unused card from the Galapagos as Chelonoides nigra. Grade: 1
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Tortuga Gigante (Giant Tortoise) (Ecuador)
Identified in the caption of this unused card from the Galapagos as Chelonoides nigra. Grade: 1
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Group of Giant Tortoises (Ecuador)
Identified in the unused card as a different Galapagos species than before, Chelonoidis vandenburghi. Grade: 1
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Galapagos, Sally-Lightfoot Crabs and Marine Iguanas (Ecuador)
Somehow they both eat seaweed and not each other. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Galapagos Sea Lion (Ecuador)
From the caption of this unused postcard, Zolophus wollebaeki. They love to play. (Who doesn’t?) Grade: 1
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Young Galapagos Sea Lions (Ecuador)
Playing, on an unused card from Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic. Grade: 1
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Galapagos Sea Lions (Ecuador)
Unused card, from there. Grade: 1
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Galapagos, Land Iguana (Ecuador)
One might think all iguanas are the same. One would be wrong. This is one (Conolophus subcristatus) that lives on dry islands, and can’t swim. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Nagano, T Hotel Nagano Ryuoo (set of 4) (Japan)
These four unused cards from T Hotel Nagano Ryuoo come in a set, and all four appear in our scan. Golf, clouds, snow monkeys, ski … but nothing of the hotel itself. In any case, twin QR Codes on the reverses will no doubt fill you in. Grade: 1