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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
Ting Chaong-wen, Thirty Years After (Taiwan)
The unused card is as dark as the scan shows. Grade: 1

Code: 30400554
Price: $1.00
Maximum Cards of Jade Articles from the National Palace Museum Postage Stamps (Continued II) (set of 4) (Taiwan)
Who comes up with these names? Please compare this set of four maximum cards, issued in August 2020, with our entry #20325387 from 2019. This time, we show you three of the cards, and the outer cover. Unused. (If you want both sets, total price US$20.) Grade: 1

Code: 30400555
Price: $14.00
Maximum Cards of Ancient Chinese Paintings Postage Stamps: “Syzygy of the Sun, Moon, and the Five Planets (set of 6) (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 two. Issued on 11 November 2020 by Chunghwa Post, and with a cardboard cover. And in case you didn’t know the word “syzygy” (we sure didn’t), Wikipedia tells us it means “In astronomy, a syzygy is a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system.” Grade: 1

Code: 30400556
Price: $17.00
Pappeln in Sommerlicht (C. Monet)
The front is fine; the reverse of this card mailed from Germany does have three stamps and postmark, as well as extensive pasted message and address label. Grade: 4

Code: 30400557
Price: $1.00
Disney Animators’ Collection
This item measures 5-3/4″ x 6-1/4″. Our scan here shows one page in this “book” and a separate paper sleeve to wrap the whole thing. It’s a “book” (connected at the top) of 15 color-in postcards, one paintbrush, and six paint colors (to which you add a bit of water) on each page. The scan for entry 30400558B shows the front cover of the book. Postage rate will be slightly adjusted, and we will let you know of that in advance. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30400558A
Price: $24.00
Disney Animators’ Collection – Front Cover
See information in our entry 30400558A. This is the front cover.

Code: 30400558B
Price: $24.00
Classical Novels of Chinese Literature – Romance of the Three Kingdoms (set of 8) (Hong Kong)
The technical description: a set of eight unused cards, with pre-printed postage, issued by Hongkong Post as “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 65”. Our scan shows only one of the eight cards. Just because we can, we will tell you the names of the eight scenes on the cards: The Oath of the Peach Garden; A Notion of Heroes over Warm Wine; Escorting Sisters-in-law over a Thousand Miles; Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage; Zhao Yun Saving the Young Lord; Empty Fort Stratagem; The Arrow through the Halberd; and Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats. Epic, indeed. Grade: 1

Code: 30400559
Price: $22.00
19th Century China Trade Paintings (set of 8) (Hong Kong)
A set of eight cards — the scan shows only one — of Hongkong Post’s Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 66. Issued in 2021, the cards’ pre-printed postal imprints have special philatelic postmarks. We’re happy to scan an example for you if you wish. Grade: 1

Code: 30400560
Price: $22.00
Wooden carousel horse (Poland)
Mailed from Warsaw in 2021, with stamp and clear postmark and blue Priorytet label, this is an internet card, but high-quality one. Grade: 1

Code: 30400561
Price: $1.00
Griffin
The griffin is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle’s talons as its front feet, all more or less on display here on this card mailed from Russia in 2021 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400562
Price: $1.00
Where’s Wally – Sports Stadium
We thought we had another card with a different scene from this series. But we searched, and couldn’t find it. Ironic, eh? Sturdy card mailed from Germany in 2021 with stamp, trilingual blue Priority label, and indistinct postmark. Rounded corners. Grade: 1

Code: 30400563
Price: $2.00
Goose Stories (Russia)
Mailed from Russia in 2021, this internet card has two very large stamps and a large postmark as well. Grade: 1

Code: 30400564
Price: $1.00
The Air is on Fire (France)
Mailed in 2021 from France with large Caving stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400565
Price: $2.00
The World is Mine
An internet card, part of a series, mailed from Japan in 2021 with two stamps and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400566
Price: $1.00
Raceboats
Mailed from New Zealand in 2021, with large blue Par Avion label and two stamps but no postmark, this card has artwork of Gregory Blackstock. Grade: 3

Code: 30400567
Price: $2.00
Le Domaine d’Arnheim (R. Magritte)
… or Arnheim’s Domain, on a card mailed from the USA in 2021 with a round Global Forever stamp — that the California postmark didn’t cancel. Grade: 1

Code: 30400568
Price: $2.00
Poetry of Hanshan and Recluse Pang (Huang Ting-chien) (Maximum Cards) (set of four) (Taiwan)
The cardboard cover and one representative card from this brilliant set of four maximum cards, which should appeal greatly to calligraphy fans. The other three cards are in a similar style. Issued by Chunghwa Post co. on 29th May 2019. Captioned in Chinese and English. Grade: 1

Code: 30400569
Price: $12.00
Tongefass
We’ll choose the German caption for this museum piece, on a card mailed from Yalta with three Russian stamps in 2021. Two large postmarks, and an address label pasted on. Grade: 4

Code: 30400570
Price: $1.00
The Last Supper (Italy)
For clarity, we will place here the entire caption on this unused old card: LEONARDO DA VINCI- Ultima Cena; Milano – S.M. delle Grazie”. The painting? 1495-1498. The postcard? Slightly newer. Grade: 1

Code: 30400571
Price: $2.00
Maximum Cards of Jade Articles (Continued III) (set of four) (Taiwan)
To explain our scan: the cardboard cover for this set of four maximum cards issued on 12 January 2022 starts with the purple section of the scan’s lower right corner. Other space is taken up with three of the four cards; the other one is of similar design. The set was issued by Chunghwa Post Co. and the otherwise unused cards have Chinese and English captions. The full title on the cover is “Maximum Cards of Jade Articles from the National Palace Museum Postage Stamps (Continued III)” so you can also source out I and II. Grade: 1

Code: 30400572
Price: $16.00
Thomas Hart Benton Murals (Massena, New York)
The murals celebrating the completion of the St. Lawrence – Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project, and depicting the Jacques Cartier discovery of the St. Lawrence Valley, were hung in the New York Power Authority Visitors’ Center in Massena in 1959. The unused postcard, though, is with us. Grade: 1

Code: 30400573
Price: $1.00
L’Incoronazione (Italy)
Mailed from Rome in what looks like 1961, with stamp and indistinct postmark. The message and address have been blurred by water stains. Grade: 4

Code: 30400574
Price: $2.00
Tiger (Mu C’hi)
The 13th-century artwork was/is in the British Museum but the card was mailed from Netherlands in 1956. Stamp and postmark are still there. The card is aging around the edges, but still Grade: 1

Code: 30400575
Price: $1.00
Messenger with a waybill (V. Stashchaniuk) (Belarus)
Unused card showing either 17th-century artwork or contemporary artwork of a 17th-century situation, we’re not certain which. The postcard however dates from 2019. Grade: 1

Code: 30400576
Price: $3.00
The Oiran Yoso-oi Seated at Her Toilet
18th-century woodblock art from Japan on a 20th-century card from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Not postally used but with a written message mostly covering the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 30400577
Price: $1.00
Ancient Chinese Paintings – 24 Solar Terms (Autumn) (Maximum Cards) (set of 6) (Taiwan)
Our scan shows the cardboard cover and two of six maximum cards in this seasonal set issued by Chunghwa Post Co., Ltd. The other four cards are of a similar motif, and we are assuming because there are four seasons and six cards in this set (officially called “Maximum Cards of Ancient Chinese Paintings from the National Palace Museum Postage Stamps – 24 Solar Terms (Autumn)”) there are or will be three other similar sets representing other seasons. Anyway, here’s Autumn. Grade: 1

Code: 30400578
Price: $18.00
Portrait de Madame de Pompadour (F. Boucher)
Trust us about this: if you were to go to Google to search either the Museum (Musee d’Edimbourg) or the painting, you would come away from that as confused as we were. The museum is in Edinburgh; the lead Google entry for the museum is in France; and Boucher apparently was prolific in his output of Pompadour art. So we’ll stop with that, telling you that this old sepia-tint card is unused and captioned in French. Grade: 1

Code: 30400579
Price: $3.00
Early American Football
An odd old card whose reverse is entirely blank. It does have “Made in U.S.A.” in tiny letters along the bottom front left. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30400580L
Price: $2.00
Boys on the Beach (M. Enckell)
A 1910 work by Finnish painter Magnus Enckell. The card is not postally used but has a written message covering the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 30400581
Price: $2.00
Wood-Block Printer T. Tokuriki (Japan)
We believe this card to be the work of Tokuriki Tomikichirō (徳力富吉郎), who had lived in Kyoto, as the card was also mailed from there in 1961, with stamp and postmark and a message written by a person who didn’t know English all that well but whose heart was definitely in it. Grade: 1

Code: 30400582T
Price: $3.00
Village Scene (Ng K.H.) (Malaysia)
Not postally used, but with a thank-you message written on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 30400583T
Price: $1.00
Arches in Vallauris (R. Dufy)
The card was mailed in 1991 from Cambridge (England) with a 31p stamp, postmark, and blue airmail label. There’s some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 30400584T
Price: $1.00
The four Misses St. Aubyn (Arthur Davis)
Mailed in 1989 from the U.K. with a 29p stamp, airmail label, and London postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400585T
Price: $1.00
Wavebreak (U.K.)
Not postally used, and with a message fully covering the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 30400586T
Price: $0.50
Springtime
Another (unused) exception to our usual policy of not including self-designed cards. This one came from Romania and is attributed to Octavia – Ivona (?) Laiu in 2023. The font is quite ornate. Grade: 1

Code: 30400587
Price: $1.00
Church
And one more (unused) exception to our usual policy of not including self-designed cards. This came from Romania and is attributed to Octavia – Ivona (?) Laiu in 2023. The font is quite ornate. Grade: 1

Code: 30400588
Price: $1.00
Bangkok, Mural in Wat Phra Kaew (Thailand)
Unused Maekmai card BK.64. Grade: 1

Code: 30400589
Price: $3.00
Toulouse-Lautrec, A Postcard Book
All 30 cards in this book are still there, even as this older edition (1990) is showing its age around the edges. Grade: 3

Code: 30400590
Price: $11.00
Porcelain Jar
A card for many potential categories but we’ll assign only this one. The jar is a 13th-century item found in Peking in 1970 and appears on this card promoting The Chinese Exhibition in Melbourne and Sydney without stating which year. Then the postcard was mailed from Australia in 1977, with stamp, air mail sticker, and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400591T
Price: $1.00

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