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Amish Country Animals
Unused card doesn’t specifically say these scenes are in Pennsylvania, but that’s where we got it. Grade: 1
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Ocelot
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Ocelot mother
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Legend of the Sand Dollar
We don’t always think of sand dollars as animals, but so they are. Unused, somewhat aging Curteichcolor card D-17507, with serrated edges. Grade: 2
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Rocky Mountain Mule Deer (USA)
Card has a perforated edge (so was once part of a set), and was mailed in 1973 with 6-cent stamp and full postmark. A little bit of postmark transfr on the front. Grade: 3
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Sea Horse (USA)
We suppose this card pops up all over the world with different printed locations, but this one happens to say it cpomes from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The sea horse should be happy to live there. Over here in Hong Kong, any of these poor little creatures would be snagged and immediately boiled up. Grade: 2
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Buffalo (bison) (Canada)
Unused card with a small tear on top edge. Grade: 3
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Puma (Guatemala)
Unused but aging black and white card issued by Jaguar Inn (not our irony, we promise) of Santa Elena. Grade: 2
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Ocean Park Amazing Asian Animals, Hong Kong (set of seven)
Two of these unused sets are available, from 2010, each set wrapped in the original pre-printed cellophane as officially issued by Hong Kong Post. Each card has the stamp (with corresponding animal) pre-printed, good for mailing anywhere in the world–if you’re in Hong Kong, that is. Ocean Park is one of Hong Kong’s two iconic amusement parks. Grades: 1
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Alas Kedaton Monkey Forest, Bali (Indonesia)
Four of these unused cards are available. We’ve been to this park. Yes, there are plenty of monkeys. More than enough. Grades: 1
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Cow (Netherlands)
A face that more than a mother could love. Mailed from Netherlands in 2010, with stamp and postmark. Some orange postal barcoding on bottom reverse. Grade: 1
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Bull Moose (New Hampshire)
Irregularly shaped card mailed in 2011 with 98-cent stamp and some of the postmark. USPS bar code on bottom reverse. Grade: 2
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Three trained porpoises, Marineland of Florida
Unused. Grade: 1
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Miami Seaquarium, Flippy bowling
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 4572 (65451), aging. Grade: 2
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Singing porpoises (Florida)
Two unused cards are available, aged just enough so that we need to call them Grades: 2
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Zippy the Porpoise (California, USA)
By now this bottle-nosed porpoise from Marineland of the Pacific has gone on to porpoise heaven, but he lives on in this card. Just for fun, check some of the other dolphin/porpoise cards from Florida and elsewhere. See any similarities? Unused, slightly aging H.S. Crocker card GW-268. Grade: 2
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Porpoise rings bell (Marineland of Florida)
Unused Color-King card 120325. Grade: 1
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Porpoise takes fish (Marineland of Florida)
Unused Color-King card 120326. Grade: 1
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Flipper, Miami Seaquarium (Florida)
Unused Natural Color card FNC 4893 (79895), explaining the TV program that once featured this captive mammal. Grade: 1
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Corky the porpoise, Miami Seaquarium (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 4395 (55217). Grade: 2
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Year of the Rabbit (2011, Hong Kong) (set of four)
We have eight mint sets of these cards (four different cards per set), issued by Hongkong Post and still in their original cellophane wrapping–just as they were when we stood in the queue for quite awhile to buy them. Over the years we’re hoping to get all twelve animals in the zodiac. Grades: 1
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Year of the Rabbit (2011, Hong Kong, stamped) (set of Maximum Cards)
We have two mint sets of these 4″ x 6″ maximum cards (four different cards per set), issued by Hongkong Post and still in their original cellophane wrapping. Unlike other sets, these are first-day-of-issue stamped and specially postmarked on the front of each card, as maximum cards tend to be. Grades: 1
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Year of the Rabbit (2011, Hong Kong, postage prepaid) (set of four)
We have eight mint sets of these 4-3/4″ x 6-1/2″ cards (four different cards per set), issued by Hongkong Post and still in their original cellophane wrapping. Unlike the earlier set, these are “Postage Prepaid” (airmail postage printed on the card) as “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 44.” Grades: 1
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Fresh water bream (Florida)
Unused Lusterchrome card K-8429 (#20) of a scene presumably seen through Silver Springs’s “World Famous Glass Bottom Boats.” Grade: 2
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Leaping porpoise (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC5184 (92297) at the St. Petersburg Beach Aquatarium. Grade: 1
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Porpoise (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC5198 (92906) of this trained porpoise at the St. Petersburg Beach Aquatarium in Florida. In a classic case of Karma, the Aquatarium closed in the mid-1970s to become the Silver Sands Beach and Racquet Club condo. Grade: 1
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Maine deer
Unused but highly aged “local” card. Grade: 3
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Panda (PR China)
Could anything be more iconic of China, except maybe the Great Wall? A 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ card, mailed from Nanjing in 2011, with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Hongsa, Sayaboury, Elephant Festival (Laos)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Year of the Rabbit (Hong Kong)
Issued by Hongkong Post, this card was mailed in 2011 with five stamps (including one commemorating the Rabbit year) and blue trilingual airmail label affixed. Grade: 1
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The desert road runner (USA)
Unused Petley card 4136-C. Did you know they can reach a speed of 18 miles per hour? Of course you did. Grade: 3
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Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) (Brunei)
Unused 5″ x 7″ Sunju Enterprise card NH-467. Grade: 1
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Marmot (USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 10 x 69499-B (and #3710) with rounded corners. Grade: 1
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Rocky Mountain Sheep (USA)
Unused, aging card. Grade: 3
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Rocky Mountain Goat (USA)
Mailed in 1970 with 6-cent stamp and Montana postmark. Grade: 2
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Horses (Finland)
Card was produced in, and mailed from, Finland. One stamp, full Turku postmark, and address on affixed label. Grade: 4
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Chipmunk (USA)
Unused, highly aged Dexter Press card DT-55840, with initials near the postage area. Grade: 4
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Mountain Sheep Family in the Alaska Mountains
Unused Mike Roberts card C5173. Grade: 2
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Maine Lobster
So many of these cards look so similar. This is Mike Roberts card ME1123A (and C10609A), unused, pointing out that the lobster must be dead because his shell is red. Grade: 2
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A Maine Lobster (1)
Unused Dexter Press card DT-21340-B (and M-1079) with serrated edges. Grade: 1