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Giant panda (Chicago)
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone linen postcard 8A-H404 (and 168), and when you see the odd caption you will know how appearances (and postcards) can deceive. Grade: 1
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Reindeer in heat (Norway)
Yes, that’s the translation from the Norwegian caption: Reinsdyr i brunst. Mailed in 2012 with stamp, full postmark, and bilingual A Prioritaire label affixed. Orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 1
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White Alligator, Louisville (Kentucky) Zoo
King Louie is still at the zoo, apparently, only one of 40 albino alligators in captivity. This card was mailed in 2012 with four different stamps and partly readable postmark. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone Park, Buffalo Herd near Mammoth Hot Springs (USA)
Refer to card 10151043 (Wyoming) for full description of the series. This card has reference numbers 10136 (front) and 54144 (reverse). Grade: 1
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Yellowstone Park, A Park Bear (USA)
Refer to card 10151043 (Wyoming) for full description of the series. This card has reference numbers 13053 (front) and 54123 (reverse). Grade: 1
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Cowboy Butchering Texas Jack Rabbit
We thoroughly dislike everything about this unused E.C. Kropp card 8326, and very much wish someone would buy it. Grade: 1
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European Hare
Hare today; and, if you buy this, gone tomorrow. Mailed from Ukraine in 2012 with stamp and full postmark. Some ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2
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Texas Longhorn
No, not the football player. The card was mailed with a $1.05 stamp, but the stamp was not cancelled, so … you can do the math. Grade: 4
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California is “Otter” This World
Two of these mid-90s, official Looney Tunes cards are available, both unused. Grades: 1
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Camels (United Arab Emirates)
Unused card with original price sticker on the back. Grade: 2
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Camel (United Arab Emirates)
The camel should be proud of such a good photo. Unused card with original price sticker on the back. Grade: 2
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A young Orang Utan (Malaysia)
This 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card was mailed in 2012, with stamp and postmark and a bit of postal battering along the way. Grade: 2
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European Brown Bear (Washington, DC)
Unused CAPSCO linen card 78710, dated 1948 on the front, of this European Brown Bear in the Washington, D.C. Zoo. Grade: 1
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Buffalo (Kansas, USA)
On the reverse of this unused Dexter Press card 44203-C, the caption says “Greetings from Kansas” and remarks that “Small herds of Buffalo may still be seen”. (At least they may now be seen on this postcard.) Grade: 2
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Bear Caught in Deadfall, Johnson
You may not be able to see in the scan, but this caption (the header) appears in red right through the middle of the photo. There is no further attribution or captioning on this unused card. No, we don’t know which “Johnson” it refers to. Grade: 2
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A young Orang Utan (Malaysia)
Not necessarily in Malaysia, but orangutans generally are paying a terrible price for being too cute. Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card. Grade: 1
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Polar Adventure – Hong Kong (set)
As reference, this set is included as one of the four different sets in 20308557A/B. Issued by Hongkong Post in 2013, this set of eight “lovely and precious animals viz. Arctic Fox, Gentoo Penguin, King Penguin, Northern Sea Lion, Pacific Walrus, Snowy Owl, Southern Rockhopper Penguin, and Spotted Seal” on postage-prepaid postcards measures about 7-1/2″ x 10″ and consists of the cards wrapped in a designed cover and further wrapped in heavy plastic. We have eight sets available, all unused, but they differ in these ways: four sets have no postmarks (Grades: 1, $28) and four sets have datestamped first-day postmarks (Grades: 1, $34).
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Seahorse (3D)
There is a modest motion effect in this lenticular card. The seahorse changes from profile to frontal view. Mailed from Germany with two stamps (one is Europa) but illegible postmark. Grade: 1
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Australian Spotted Cuscus (Maximum Card) (Indonesia)
Would you like to know the Latin name for this animal is Spilocuscus maculatus? The unused card issued by Pos Indonesia in 1996 tells us. Grade: 1
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Javan Rhinoceros (Maximum Card) (Indonesia)
This (otherwise unused) “Official Maximum Card” from World Wide Fund for Nature has a 1996 postmark. Please be mindful that we have several variations of rhino maximum cards, so the correct code number is especially important. Grade: 1
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Javan Rhinoceros eating leaves (Maximum Card) (Indonesia)
This (otherwise unused) “Official Maximum Card” from World Wide Fund for Nature has a 1996 first day of issue postmark. Please be mindful that we have several variations of rhino maximum cards, so the correct code number is especially important. Grade: 1
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Sumatran Rhino, facing right (Maximum Card) (Indonesia)
This (otherwise unused) “Official Maximum Card” from World Wide Fund for Nature has a 1996 first day of issue postmark. Please be mindful that we have several variations of rhino maximum cards, so the correct code number is especially important. Grade: 1
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Sumatran Rhino, facing left (Maximum Card) (Indonesia)
This (otherwise unused) “Official Maximum Card” from World Wide Fund for Nature has a 1996 first day of issue postmark. Please be mindful that we have several variations of rhino maximum cards, so the correct code number is especially important. Grade: 1
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Badak Jawa and Sumatera (Maximum Cards) (Indonesia) (set)
Three sets are available, each with four first-day-of-issue 1996 cards from Pos Indonesia and the World Wildlife Fund. “Badak” means rhinoceros in Bahasa Indonesia. Grade: 1
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Gorillas (Russia)
So nice. Mailed from Russia with two large stamps, and large Moscow postmark. Grade: 2
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Abessinier-Kater
Mailed in 2013 with stamp, Priority label, postmark, extra sticker, and address label affixed. Grade: 4
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Reindeer
How many reindeer does Santa need, anyway? When we see “Reindeer Farm” our thoughts go off in the wrong direction, and this is from the Reindeer Farm in Palmer, Alaska. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Alaskan King Salmon
Unused card of a poster of a vintage sign. Grade: 1
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Diamondback Rattlesnake (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Bieszczady (Poland)
Really, if you like wolves, you’ll love this. Google will tell you a lot more than we will, but the card was mailed in 2013 with nine stamps (of three different denominations), Priorytet label, and four postmarks. Grade: 1
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Crab (2nd Series) (Maximum Cards) (Thailand) (set)
Set of four maximum cards, bilingual Thai/English captions, from August 1994 (Thai 2537). Two slightly aging sets are available. Grades: 1
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Dinosaurs (Maximum Cards) (Thailand) (set of 4)
Three sets of four maximum cards, unused, captioned in Thai and English, from August 1997, are available. One has minor age mottling on some of the reverses (Grade: 2, $16) and the others are better (Grade: 1, $18).
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Wild Animals (6th Series) (Maximum Cards) (Thailand) (set)
A set of four maximum cards, from April 1998 (Thai 2541), packaged as you see. We are showing two of the four cards, and all of them are wild cats large or small. The cards have bilingual Thai/English captions, are unused, and have small postmark ink transfer on the reverses from having been put on top of each other. We don’t consider this to be a defect. Grade: 1
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Alaskan Moose
It has come to this in the United States, that the printed caption on this unused card has to point out this is a “Composite close-up view of a moose crossing the Seward Highway.” Why, we thought all American wildlife was this size. Grade: 1
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The Alaska Zoo, polar bear
An astonishingly long and comprehensive caption on the back of this unused card, telling just about everything you could ever want to know about polar bears, but not where the Zoo is. Grade: 1
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Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center – Bull Moose
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Coral (Maximum Cards) (Thailand) (set)
From Thai year 2535 (western 1992), and for International Letter Writing Week, a set of four maximum cards, captioned only in Thai. These have held up well, with only some slight signs of age so far. Grade: 1
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Did You Know? Deer (Canada)
From this famous series, a Canadian card with five stamps (three of them uncancelled) and postmark. For the benefit of the search engines (yes, always one eye on those), the White-tailed Deer’s scientific name is Odocoileus virginianus. Grade: 1
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Brown trout (Finland)
It’s the sender who identifies the species, not anything printed on the card, which was mailed from Finland in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 1
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Desert Tortoise, Mojave National Preserve (USA)
Unused card from 2000. Grade: 1