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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

Code: 30300144
Price: $2.00
Porpoise rings bell (Marineland of Florida)
Unused Color-King card 120325. Grade: 1

Code: 30300145
Price: $1.00
Porpoise takes fish (Marineland of Florida)
Unused Color-King card 120326. Grade: 1

Code: 30300146
Price: $2.00
Flipper, Miami Seaquarium (Florida)
Unused Natural Color card FNC 4893 (79895), explaining the TV program that once featured this captive mammal. Grade: 1

Code: 30300147
Price: $3.00
Corky the porpoise, Miami Seaquarium (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 4395 (55217). Grade: 2

Code: 30300148
Price: $2.00
Flamingos, Phoenix Zoo (Arizona, USA)
Unused card just starting to age. Grade: 1

Code: 30300149
Price: $0.50
Sage thrasher (USA)
Unused Petley card S-58563 just starting to age. Grade: 1

Code: 30300150
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 30300151
Price: $12.00
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

Code: 30300152
Price: $30.00
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

Code: 30300153
Price: $24.00
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

Code: 30300154
Price: $0.50
Macaws (Florida)
Unused but heavily aged Ward Beckett card T-37. Though called the Parrot Tree, these are more correctly macaws. Grade: 3

Code: 30300155
Price: $1.00
Leaping porpoise (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC5184 (92297) at the St. Petersburg Beach Aquatarium. Grade: 1

Code: 30300156
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 30300157
Price: $1.00
Flamingos (Florida)
So what are flamingos doing in a parrot jungle? We won’t go there. Highly aged but unused Curteichcolor card 0DK-2146 (G.549). Grade: 3

Code: 30300158
Price: $2.00
Flamingos keeping cool (Florida)
Unused, but heavily aged, Ward Beckett card T-9-a of Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida. Grade: 3

Code: 30300159
Price: $0.50
Nesting flamingos (Florida)
Unused Ward Beckett card T-8-B, of “colorful flamingos nesting beside the beautiful lagoon at Busch Gardens, located in Tampa, Florida, at Anheuser-Busch’s forty million-dollar brewery.” Yes, but do they also get free samples? Grade: 2

Code: 30300160
Price: $1.00
Flamingoes
We say flamingos, the card says flamingoes … Marineland first opened in 1938 (under a different name) and has gone through more twists and turns than a leaping porpoise since then. Watch your local news for whatever may happen next. Meanwhile, this is an unused Color-King card 120322 showing the world’s first Marine Oceanarium. Grade: 1

Code: 30300161
Price: $1.00
Flamingos (Florida)
Unused and unattributed card (though with index numbers 32503 and MS 11) of Graceful Flamingos feeding at Miami Seaquarium. Grade: 1

Code: 30300162
Price: $1.00
Roseate Spoonbills (Florida Everglades)
Quick! If someone says “Everglades,” what comes to your mind first? Of course … roseate spoonbills! No? Well. Unused, somewhat aging Curteichcolor card 8CK2211 (G.467). Grade: 2

Code: 30300163
Price: $1.00
Maine deer
Unused but highly aged “local” card. Grade: 3

Code: 30300164
Price: $0.50
Pekin (sic) ducks (Pennsylvania)
Unused Dexter Press card DR-34457-C showing “a group of Pekin ducks come close to shore for dinner.” If they were here in Hong Kong, for sure they would be dinner! Main caption on reverse reads “Greetings from the Pocono Mountains.” Grade: 1

Code: 30300167
Price: $2.00
Pelicans (Florida)
Mailed in 2011 with 98-cent stamp and Tallahassee postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30300168
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 30300169
Price: $5.00
Hongsa, Sayaboury, Elephant Festival (Laos)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30300171
Price: $9.00
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

Code: 30300172
Price: $11.00
Red-crowned crane (PR China)
Card issued by the China State Postal Bureau, with one pre-printed stamp and one more; two full postmarks. Grade: 2

Code: 30300173
Price: $5.00
Sea-gull in flight (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30300175
Price: $0.50
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

Code: 30300176
Price: $1.00
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) (Brunei)
Unused 5″ x 7″ Sunju Enterprise card NH-467. Grade: 1

Code: 30300177
Price: $3.00
Marmot (USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 10 x 69499-B (and #3710) with rounded corners. Grade: 1

Code: 30300178
Price: $1.00
Rocky Mountain Sheep (USA)
Unused, aging card. Grade: 3

Code: 30300179
Price: $1.00
Kookaburra
Unused card with initials inked into the postage area. Grade: 3

Code: 30300180
Price: $0.50
Rocky Mountain Goat (USA)
Mailed in 1970 with 6-cent stamp and Montana postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30300181
Price: $1.00
Horses (Finland)
Card was produced in, and mailed from, Finland. One stamp, full Turku postmark, and address on affixed label. Grade: 4

Code: 30300182
Price: $3.00
Chipmunk (USA)
Unused, highly aged Dexter Press card DT-55840, with initials near the postage area. Grade: 4

Code: 30300183
Price: $0.50
Mountain Sheep Family in the Alaska Mountains
Unused Mike Roberts card C5173. Grade: 2

Code: 30300184
Price: $0.50
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

Code: 30300185
Price: $1.00
A Maine Lobster (1)
Unused Dexter Press card DT-21340-B (and M-1079) with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 30300186
Price: $1.00
A Luscious Lobster
Unused Dexter Press card 21340-B (and #501) which is different from 30300186 in these ways: (1) this one has plain edges, not serrated; (2) this one has the same Dexter Press main number but a different sub-number; (3) this one doesn’t call itself “A Maine Lobster” but instead “The luscious lobster,” and (4) this one is abraded on the back so is only Grade: 2

Code: 30300187
Price: $1.00

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