Animals – Page 6 – Global Postcard Sales

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Performing dolphin at Kahala Hilton, Honolulu
Unused card issued by the hotel. Grade: 2

Code: 30300234
Price: $2.00
Humpback whale
Mailed from California in 2012 with one real and uncancelled “Forever” stamp and USPS barcoding. Address and extra postage labels affixed. Grade: 4

Code: 30300235
Price: $1.00
Komodo dragons (Indonesia)
We have another Komodo dragon card that looks just like this, but we keep our eye on the ball (not on the goat) and can tell you the caption on this one is just slightly different from the other. Three of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30300236
Price: $11.00
Orangutan (Indonesia)
It would take several pages to editorialise about the situation with orangutan generally. We must all hope it will not happen that the only specimens we may see are on postcards. Go to Taman Safari in Bogor. Sit with one. Come away from that experience unmoved. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30300237
Price: $3.00
Noble Gold Fish (Hong Kong) (set)
Whenever we do get around to opening a new Theme category for fish, this will be the first item to be relocated. It’s an unopened set of 30 cards, as far as we can tell from the illustrations on the back, they are all koi. If you’re interested, we will scan the back cover and send it to you, and you can see all 30. Published in Hong Kong. Grade: 1

Code: 30300238
Price: $32.00
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

Code: 30300239
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 30300240
Price: $4.00
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

Code: 30300241
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 30300242
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 30300244
Price: $2.00
Fairy penguin (Australia)
Quite battered in transit, this card was mailed with pre-printed “worldwide” postage in 2012. Large postmark. Abrasions all around. Grade: 4

Code: 30300245
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 30300246
Price: $2.00
Migratory birds of Wake Island
There seems not to have been much else to make postcards of, on Wake Island. Unused H.S. Crocker card #10. Grade: 1

Code: 30300247
Price: $7.00
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

Code: 30300248
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 30300249
Price: $1.00
California is “Otter” This World
Two of these mid-90s, official Looney Tunes cards are available, both unused. Grades: 1

Code: 30300250
Price: $3.00
Camels (United Arab Emirates)
Unused card with original price sticker on the back. Grade: 2

Code: 30300252
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 30300253
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 30300254
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 30300255
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 30300256
Price: $3.00
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

Code: 30300257
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 30300258
Price: $2.00
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).

Code: 30300259
Price: $28.00
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

Code: 30300260
Price: $6.00
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

Code: 30300261
Price: $9.00
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

Code: 30300262
Price: $9.00
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

Code: 30300263
Price: $9.00
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

Code: 30300264
Price: $9.00
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

Code: 30300265
Price: $9.00
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

Code: 30300266
Price: $32.00
Gorillas (Russia)
So nice. Mailed from Russia with two large stamps, and large Moscow postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30300267
Price: $3.00
Abessinier-Kater
Mailed in 2013 with stamp, Priority label, postmark, extra sticker, and address label affixed. Grade: 4

Code: 30300268
Price: $1.00
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

Code: 30300269
Price: $3.00
Alaskan King Salmon
Unused card of a poster of a vintage sign. Grade: 1

Code: 30300270
Price: $2.00
Diamondback Rattlesnake (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30300271
Price: $1.00
Fauna of Belarus – Tree sparrow
From the famous Fauna of Belarus series, this card of a tree sparrow. Mailed in 2013 with three different stamps, two Grodno postmarks, and Prioritaire chop. Grade: 1

Code: 30300272
Price: $4.00
Splendid Fairy Wren (Australia)
Mailed in 2013, the $1.70 stamp is there but the postmark is not. Grade: 4

Code: 30300273
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 30300274
Price: $5.00
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

Code: 30300275
Price: $16.00

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