Art – Page 14 – Global Postcard Sales

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Einfache Doppellage (G. Vormwald)
German-made, unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30400516
Price: $1.00
Pine trees in the snow (M. Okyo) (Japan)
Mailed from Japan in 2016, with stamp and Ginza postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400517
Price: $1.00
Precious Relics from Chang’an (set of 6) (PR China)
Scan shows cover and two sample cards from the six (unused) cards in the set from Shaanxi Province. Grade: 1

Code: 30400518
Price: $5.00
Petra, The Treasury by David Roberts – 1839 (Jordan)
Unmailed card with a small sticker on the back. Grade: 4

Code: 30400519
Price: $1.00
Lourenço Marques, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, mural (Mozambique)
In what is now Maputo, this mural by Francisco Relogio, The unused postcard is significantly aged but otherwise unmarked. Grade: 3

Code: 30400520
Price: $3.00
Ancient Chinese Paintings from the National Palace Museum: Immortal Blossoms of an Eternal Spring (II) (Maximum Cards) (set of six) (Taiwan)
Such a long title — and we have even abbreviated it — for a nice set of six maximum cards, of which our scan shows you four. Issued on 26 April 2017 by Chunghwa Post, and with a cardboard cover. If you’d like to see the other two cards, please ask us. Grade: 1

Code: 30400521
Price: $19.00
Rezonville (A. Morot) (France)
We thought of telling you the story behind this work by Aime Morot, but it’s so hot in our little room right now that it’s better left for you to do the search. Stamp, and all or part of two postmarks on each side — none of them yielding up the date of mailing. Grade: 1

Code: 30400522
Price: $7.00
M.M. Vienne (France)
All we can tell you is that this undivided back card was mailed from France, has two different stamps, and two indistinct postmarks. Can you read the year? 1939? But that’s too late for an undivided back. Grade: 2

Code: 30400523
Price: $2.00
Prise de Magenta (France)
Stamp and indistinct postmark. Ink stain in upper left reverse corner. Grade: 3

Code: 30400524
Price: $4.00
Lord Krishna with Radha (India)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30400525
Price: $1.00
Bali, Greetings from Werdhi Budaya (Indonesia)
Formally, the Werdhi Budaya Art Centre, on this unused, somewhat aging but otherwise clean card. Grade: 1

Code: 30400526
Price: $3.00
PR China (Maximum Cards) (set of six)
Our scan shows you four of the six cards in this set, issued by China National Philatelic in 2017. The other two cards are in a similar spirit, and there’s a cardboard cover (not shown). Somewhat unusually, postmarks are not all the same. Unused. Two sets are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30400527
Price: $14.00
Paintings and Calligraphy of Professor Jao Tsung-i (set of seven) (Hong Kong)
Our scan only shows the first of seven cards in this (unused) set, because it’s still in the original cellowrap and we’ve not opened it. But we have seen the other cards elsewhere, and they are, as the title suggests, paintings and calligraphy in this vein. This is Hong Kong Government’s Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 56, with pre-printed worldwide airmail postage. Grade: 1

Code: 30400528
Price: $12.00
Hong Kong Museums Collection: Bamboo Carvings (set of 6) – box
This is a set of six cards, in a very sturdy cardboard box that almost feels like wood. Our scan shows the front of the box; see 30400529B for sample cards. It’s Hongkong Post’s “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 57,” and each card has pre-printed, coloured, global postage and a special first-day-of-issue (14 November 2017) postmark. Our other scan shows you the examples of how one front and one reverse look, but of course all six cards are different within a similar theme. Grade: 1

Code: 30400529A
Price: $31.00
Hong Kong Museums Collection: Bamboo Carvings (set of 6) – two cards
See 30400529A.

Code: 30400529B
Price: $31.00
Maximum Cards of Modern Ink-Wash Paintings (set of four) (Taiwan)
Our scan shows you the outer cardboard cover (lower left) and two of the four maximum cards in this 6th September 2017 unused set from Chunghwa Post. Each card gives the artist’s name and describes the artwork in English and Chinese. The other two cards not shown are of a similar style. Grade: 1

Code: 30400530
Price: $12.00
Twenty-Five Royal Seals of the Qing Dynasty (Part One) (first 13 of set of 25) (PR China)
This is Part One of a two-part set (see also our entry 30400531B), which must be sold together. Part One contains 13 unused cards, of which we show two as examples here, plus one panel of mint stamps (also in our scan). Now please move on to see the description for Part 2. The price we show here is for both parts together. Grade: 1

Code: 30400531A
Price: $36.00
Twenty-Five Royal Seals of the Qing Dynasty (Part Two) (second 12 of set of 25) (PR China)
First, please read what we wrote for entry 30400531A. This set includes the remaining 12 cards of seals, and one more panel of mint stamps. Our scan shows one sample front of a card, one sample reverse of a card, and the cardboard cover similar for both parts of the entire set. You would be buying both parts of this set together for the listed price. That means: 25 unused cards and two panels of stamps. Grades: 1

Code: 30400531B
Price: $36.00
Perhaps I Should Abstain (Clarke and Mulcaire) (Australia)
Unused advertising card. It looks like coffee, and if so we’re not certain why the artists are projecting this bad rap on the beverage, but art is really subjective. Grade: 1

Code: 30400532
Price: $1.00
Lucky Lulu Blonde (M. Ramos)
Unused. Minor corner bumping. Grade: 2

Code: 30400533
Price: $1.00
Sea-Coast (Q. Grezda) (Albania)
The “Q.” stands for Qamil, and we were happy to find his story through Google, which you can, too. There’s a relation with our Flower Dance card of a few entries earlier. This one is unused, dated 1985, and heavily handled though unmarked otherwise. Grade: 1

Code: 30400534
Price: $3.00
Porto Santo, 600 Anos do Descobrimento do Arquipelago da Madeira
Set of four unused maximum cards from June 2018. Grades: 1

Code: 30400535
Price: $12.00
Ancient Chinese Art Treasures – Blue and White Porcelain (set of 4) (Maximum Cards) (Taiwan)
A set of four maximum cards issued by Chunghwa Post Co. on 15th November 2018. The cards are as you see, enclosed in a cardboard sleeve that also provides technical details (in Chinese). Fine examples of art postcards. Grade: 1

Code: 30400536
Price: $14.00
Historic Adelaide (South Australia)
Views are identified in the caption, and include the Adelaide Railway Station, Art Gallery, Adelaide Arcade, St. Peters Cathedral, Palm House – Botanic Gardens, and Old Parliament House. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30400537
Price: $2.00
A Day Out, Rundle Mall (Adelaide, Australia)
The artwork is called “A Day Out,” from 1999. The card, somewhat later and unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30400538
Price: $2.00
Upside Down Snowman (D. Shrigley)
Mailed from Switzerland in 2013: two very large stamps, two extra stickers, A Priority label, and indistinct postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 30400539
Price: $1.00
The Art of Looking at Art (Hong Kong)
And arty it is, an extremely thick (1/16″) square ad card mailed to Hong Kong residents. The other side is empty except for the legend “Art Sleuth”. Grade: 1

Code: 30400540
Price: $2.00
Elephant art (Thailand)
You may choose to believe. Or not. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30400541
Price: $2.00
Lost Illusions/Evening (M.C.G. Gleyre)
The painting was or is in the Louvre, and the caption on the back of this card takes up most of the message area. Not postally used, the card has writing in the address area. Grade: 4

Code: 30400542
Price: $1.00
Au chantier de la lumiere (D. Jukniu) (Albania)
Unused, older Albturist card, captioned only in French. At that time, at least, the painting was in Tirana’s National Arts Gallery. Slight smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 30400543
Price: $2.00
The Renaissance Fighters (Naxhi Bakalli) (Albania)
Not postally used, a 1982 SHB card with extensive message on the reverse. Bakalli (the artist) has a rich history of his own, as Google will reveal. Grade: 4

Code: 30400544
Price: $3.00
National Museum, mosaic (Kruja, Albania)
Unused SHB card, whose bilingual caption (at least the English part) reads like this: “The ‘Gjergj Kastrioti – Skanderbeg’ Naional Museum, Kruja ‘The Call’, mosaic by Gavril Priftuli and Nikolet Vasia”. Make of that what you will. Grade: 2

Code: 30400545
Price: $3.00
Mosaic fragment (Pogradec, Albania)
Unused, slightly aging Albturist card. Grade: 1

Code: 30400546
Price: $3.00
Eros Kalos (Greece)
Ahem. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30400547
Price: $3.00
Tree for Wol’s House (E.H. Shepard)
A drawing for Winnie the Pooh. The card was mailed from USA but the postmark went on the opposite side from the Global Forever stamp, which is now worth more than the card. Just saying. Grade: 4

Code: 30400548
Price: $1.00
Mithila Art (Nepal)
Unused card, made using Nepal’s famous handmade paper. Mithila region spans parts of Nepal and India. Grade: 1

Code: 30400549
Price: $4.00
Seti I between Horus and Osiris (Egypt)
Menmaatre Seti I was a pharaoh of the New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II. Now you know just what we do. This postcard was mailed in 1992, with stamp but only a small bit of the postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30400550
Price: $2.00
Stetson University, Oscar Bluemner exhibition (USA)
Unused card measuring 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ for a series of Bluemner events in 2017. Grade: 1

Code: 30400551
Price: $1.00
Maximum Cards of Jade Articles from the National Palace Museum Postage Stamps (Continued) (Taiwan)
The unwieldy title is theirs, not ours, and our scan shows the cover and cellowrap of this four-card set. Issued in December, 2019, by Chunghwa Post Co. Grade: 1

Code: 30400552
Price: $14.00
Bewegend (Moving) (Germany)
You might not want to stare at this image for too long. Mailed from Germany in 2019 — two stamps, postmark, and significant postal abrasions along the right reverse edge. Grade: 4

Code: 30400553
Price: $1.00

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