Aquariums – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 33 postcards

Jellyfish, Steinhart Aquarium (San Francisco)
Chrysaora melanaster, to be precise, on this card mailed from Colorado in 1987 with two 22-cent stamps and nearly full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30300080
Price: $2.00
Miami Seaquarium, Flippy bowling (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 4572 (65451), aging. Grade: 2

Code: 30300142
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
Miami Seaquarium, double jump (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FG-98 (88058). Grade: 2

Code: 31800029
Price: $2.00
Miami Seaquarium, Greetings (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC-4242 (43503). Grade: 2

Code: 31800030
Price: $2.00
Miami Seaquarium, main entrance (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC-3942 (29040). Grade: 1

Code: 31800031
Price: $1.00
Miami Seaquarium, Corky the porpoise (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 4395 (55217). Grade: 2

Code: 31800037
Price: $2.00
Miami Seaquarium, flamingos (Florida)
Unused and unattributed card (though with index numbers 32503 and MS 11) of Graceful Flamingos feeding. Grade: 1

Code: 31800044
Price: $1.00
Aquarium of Niagara Falls (New York)
Unused Dexter Press card 49790-C (69). Grade: 1

Code: 31800047
Price: $3.00
Seafloor Aquarium, Nassau (Bahamas)
Unused card showing “Linus jumping — Herman waiting his turn.” Grade: 1

Code: 31800049
Price: $5.00
Van Kleef Aquarium (Singapore)
Van Kleef Aquarium was an oceanarium located along River Valley Road and had 6,500 animals when it opened in 1955. The decision to develop it was made in 1935 by the Municipal Commission, and while the site and name of the aquarium were chosen by 1936, the aquarium was only approved in 1939. Construction began in 1940, but work was halted after piling was completed due to rising material costs, only resuming in 1952 on a new site. One might guess the World War was also a factor in the delay. The aquarium opened in September 1955, and remained popular through the 1970s, but by 1991, despite having been renovated between 1986 and 1987, it was viewed as out of date and closed in May 1991. Subsequently reopened as World of Aquarium in October 1991, which closed less than two years later due to poor business, and again as Fort Canning Aquarium in 1993, it eventually closed for good in 1996 and was demolished two years later. Yet here it is, on an unused older card. Grade: 1

Code: 36700055T
Price: $6.00
Chicago, Shedd Aquarium (Illinois, USA)
The unused card has a great photo, but (as a side comment) we often don’t understand why some postcards of specific places don’t actually say where they are. Like this one. That aside, Grade: 1

Code: 36700059
Price: $1.00
Kenting, Pingtung County, National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium (Taiwan)
Unused, ornately designed card. Grade: 1

Code: 38000258
Price: $3.00
St. Thomas, Coral World (U.S. Virgin Islands)
An unused postcard whose caption described this as the “Only underwater aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, situated on Coki Point”. Grade: 1

Code: 41000001
Price: $3.00
Kyoto Aquarium (Japan)
This is not technically a postcard and could only be used as one with some difficulty. It measures 4″ x 8-1/4″ and is fully printed on the reverse (entirely in Japanese) with the layout of the Aquarium, presumably for visitors. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 41000002
Price: $1.00
Okinawa, Churaumi Aquarium (Japan)
Continuing a series of unused cards, captioned mostly in Japanese and Chinese, but with the key identification also in English (or we should say western letters). Grade: 1

Code: 41000003
Price: $1.00
Hengchun Peninsula, National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium (Taiwan)
Unused card issued by the Riverside Hotel Group in Kaohsiung. The scan might not make it immediately clear that the upper half of the heart is cut to shape. Two of these cards are available; Grades: 1

Code: 41000004
Price: $2.00
Wonsan, Camping Souvenir of Songdowon International Children’s Camp (set of 11) (DPR Korea)
Eleven unused cards in a cardboard cover (lower right, in the scan, along with three samples from the 11). We’ve not also showed the aquarium (sorry, but we promise it’s on a card), swimming pool, rock climbing, football, and a really snazzy dormitory. Definitely not like the summer camps we attended! Grade: 1

Code: 41000005
Price: $24.00
Chicago, The John G. Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park – General view of the foyer (USA)
See our notes for item #10114226 (USA, Illinois). Similar condition. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 41000006
Price: $2.00
Chicago, The John G. Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park – Main Entrance – Center Door (USA)
See our notes for item #10114226 (USA, Illinois). Similar condition. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 41000007
Price: $2.00
Chicago, The John G. Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park – Main Entrance (USA)
See our notes for item #10114226 (USA, Illinois). Similar condition. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 41000008
Price: $2.00
Chicago, The John G. Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park – Central pool (Illinois, USA)
See our notes for item #10114226 (USA, Illinois). Similar condition overall, but with small foxing on the reverse. The caption tells us this “pool” is “partly arranged as a swamp and partly as a rockery.” Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 41000009
Price: $2.00
Chicago, The John G. Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park – a corner of the foyer hall (USA)
See our notes for item #10114226 (Illinois, USA). Similar condition. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 41000010
Price: $2.00
Chicago, The John G. Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park – archway and aquatic clock (Illinois, USA))
See our notes for item #10114226 (USA, Illinois). Similar condition. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 41000011
Price: $2.00
Chicago, The John G. Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park – entire building (Illinois, USA)
Unused Stadler Photo Co. card, unnumbered, slight aging. The caption says this “is the largest and best equipped aquarium in the world”, an honour now possibly held by Ocean Kingdom in (where else) China. Grade: 1

Code: 41000012
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Steinhart Aquarium (California)
Unused Selithco True Color Card 1650, aging. Grade: 3

Code: 41000013
Price: $0.50
Chicago, John G. Shedd Aquarium (Illinois, USA)
In Hong Kong, this scene might be in a restaurant, not an aquarium. But the postcard is from Chicago. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 41000014
Price: $1.00
Aquarium (3D)
Nice 3D but no motion effect on this unattributed card, mailed from Netherlands with stamp but no readable postmark or identification. Grade: 2

Code: 41000015
Price: $3.00
Detroit, Lily Pond at aquarium and horticultural building, Belle Isle Park (Michigan, USA)
Unused C.T. American Art Colored card 105965 (30). Grade: 2

Code: 41000016
Price: $2.00
Key West, Municipal Aquarium (Florida, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 6C-K1713 (and G.425). Grade: 2

Code: 41000017
Price: $2.00
Vantaa, The Finnish Aviation Museum, and Aquarium (Finland)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, Priority, and faint postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 41000018
Price: $3.00
Baltimore, National Aquarium (Maryland, USA)
Unused card issued not long after the 1981 opening. Grade: 1

Code: 41000019
Price: $2.00
Bandar Seri Begawan, Churchill Centre and aquarium (Brunei)
Unused card bought in 1980s though it was made much earlier because “East Malaysia” in caption was deleted by the printer and Brunei left the alliance much earlier than the 1980s. Great front, aging reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 41000020
Price: $12.00

Total: 33 postcards