Aviation – Page 17 – Global Postcard Sales

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Changi International Airport Building – Singapore (Maximum Card)
Another from this unusual series in Maximum Card style, an unofficial S.W. Singapore card S8133 with 1982 Philatelic postmark. Unused, aging somewhat. Grade: 1

Code: 30200701
Price: $4.00
Singapore Changi Airport (Maximum Card)
Concluding this unusual series in Maximum Card style, an unofficial A&T International card (ATS 17) with 1982 Philatelic postmark. Unused, serrated edges, aging somewhat. Grade: 1

Code: 30200702
Price: $5.00
Johannesburg, Jan Smuts Airport (South Africa)
An airport in search of an identity. Opened as Jan Smuts in 1952, then the name changed to Johannesburg International in 1994, then again to O.R. Tambo International in 2006. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200703
Price: $4.00
Lufthansa – Erstflug LH 536 (Germany)
Erstflug = First flight, in German. You might compare this with our entry #30200695, a similar situation and type of card. This one is richer, though: same-day 1984 postmarks from Frankfurt and Addis Ababa, and a rubber-stamp chop mark from a German club on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 30200704
Price: $4.00
Zurich, Flughafen (Switzerland)
Unused, somewhat aging but clean card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200705
Price: $2.00
SunExpress, Antalya (Turkey)
Unused but aging card. Grade: 2

Code: 30200706
Price: $2.00
Pula Aerodrom (Yugoslavia)
Pula is now the eighth largest city in Croatia — how the world changes — but from this card you might think it was even larger. Mailed from there in 1974, with Yugoslav stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30200707
Price: $5.00
Hello Kitty and EVA Air
We already knew Hello Kitty and EVA Air had a crush on each other … see our entry with the aircraft covered in Hello Kitty logo. Here, it’s the other way around–an homage, if you will. Unused 4.5″ square card, probably not official but distinctive nonetheless. Grade: 1

Code: 30200708
Price: $2.00
New York City (North Beach), La Guardia Airport
Nice card, mailed in 1955 with two one-cent stamps and postmark. Yes, folks, it did actually look like this once. Grade: 1

Code: 30200709
Price: $4.00
Shenzhen Image (set of 19) (PR China)
You could ask — as we initially did — why only 19 cards in the set, of course one must be missing. But not so. This is deliberate, because the set was issued in 2017 for the XIX International Botanical Congress. And what a set it is: unused, postage pre-printed 4″ x 7-1/2″ cards with impressive views of modern day Shenzhen’s various attractions. The scan for this entry 20307899A shows the sort of vinylized cover and one of the cards. Scans B and C show other cards for different categories, including for Bao’an International Airport. Disclosure: we live right across the border from Shenzhen and didn’t know half of these places existed. Two sets are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30200711A
Price: $39.00
Shenzhen Image (set of 19) – Bao’an Airport
See 30200711A.

Code: 30200711B
Price: $39.00
Kai Tak Airport at night with its Modern runway illuminated (Hong Kong)
You probably already know this airport closed in 1998. Totally unrecognizable now. Unused card, maybe 1960s. Grade: 2

Code: 30200712
Price: $5.00
Kai Tak Airport with runway (Hong Kong)
The front of this card is fine. However it had been mailed in 1971, with torn airmail sticker; stamp is gone, and no postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 30200713
Price: $4.00
Kai Tak Olympic Park (Hong Kong)
Unused, but terrible condition on front and back. Grade: 5

Code: 30200714
Price: $1.00
Baguio Airport (Philippines)
Unused card, with abrasions on the front. We don’t know how old the card is, but the aircraft registration number looks like it might be PI-C505, and Philippines now uses RP-. Moreover, neither number shows up easily in Google. So let’s just say: it’s an older postcard. Grade: 4

Code: 30200715
Price: $3.00
Greater Pittsburgh International Airport main entrance and fountain (USA)
Unused card dated 1986, though the cars in the photo do look a bit older than that. Grade: 1

Code: 30200716
Price: $1.00
Air Whitsunday Grumman G-73 Mallard (VH-LAW)
The photo (and maybe the card) date from the early 1980s, as this registration number has passed to other aircraft since then. At least we don’t think anything bad happened to the airplane. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30200717
Price: $1.00
Shenzhen (PR China), multiple attractions (set of four)
Kindly get your coffee and relax because this description may take awhile. It’s a set of four unused cards, each measuring 4″ x 11-5/8″, so they are well oversized. The red paper wrap identifies this China Post product, from 2018, and our scan shows the front of one card (the other three are similar but with different places) and the reverse of another. All cards have pre-printed, coloured postage and a kind of “shadow” graphic further identifying most of what’s on the front. Clearly these cards fit many of our categories–in fact, they set the record–because Shenzhen is a city of about 15 million people and has everything, including a large airport. So, if you have any questions about these incredible postcards, please ask us. Grades: 1

Code: 30200718
Price: $14.00
Bristol Boxkite 1911
Mailed from Sweden in 1984 with stamp and faint postmark. The card is aging significantly. Grade: 3

Code: 30200719
Price: $1.00
Avianca Building, Bogota (Colombia)
Unused Fotorama postcard 0120, whose bilingual (Spanish, English) caption explains about the modern, 40-story building housing offices of “the first airline in America, with over 50 years of existence.” Given that Avianca was established in 1919 as SCADTA, this suggests the postcard is from 1969 or slightly later. The front is good; the reverse of the card is smudged quite a bit. Grade: 3

Code: 30200721
Price: $4.00
Turkish Airlines (Hong Kong)
This ad card was mailed to Hong Kong residents (using Hongkong Post’s English-language Circular Service postage imprint) in late 2018 for a contest linked with the opening of Istanbul’s new airport. The point is to write your New Year’s wish and post the card back to a local (HK) address for a chance of winning a trip. But that’s not all! There are terms and conditions! Including one that will winnow out quite a few potential entrants. Above all, be “stylish”. Grade: 1

Code: 30200723
Price: $2.00
Semonggok Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, Kuching (Sarawak, East Malaysia)
Inventive, unused, 5″ x 7″ card — like others in this series, aging just a bit. Grade: 1

Code: 30200725
Price: $3.00
Scandinavian Air Express
Reproduction of a 1930 poster on a contemporary card, mailed from Amsterdam in 2019 with three different stamps and postmark, along with a blue Priority label. Very minor postmark ink transfer along upper front edge. Grade: 1

Code: 30200726
Price: $1.00
Finnish Air Traffic Company
Contemporary card of a 1938 poster, mailed in 2019 with stamp, postmark, and Priority label. Our sense of Olympics history is not too good, so we checked Wikipedia, and learned “The 1940 Summer Olympics … were originally scheduled to be held from September 21 to October 6, 1940, in Tokyo. They were rescheduled for Helsinki, to be held from July 20 to August 4, 1940, but were ultimately canceled due to the outbreak of World War II.” So that accounts for the rings. Grade: 1

Code: 30200727
Price: $3.00
Spruce Goose (Long Beach, California, USA)
The interesting story of this wooden aircraft, which flew only once, is readily searchable online. The unused card — B14081, an official one — is gently aging. The airplane itself has moved to Oregon since then. Grade: 2

Code: 30200728
Price: $2.00
Airplane on lake in autumn
In general we prefer not to list Zazzle cards on the site, but we liked the photo. Any picture that makes us wish we were there is worth showing, in our view at least. Mailed from USA in 2020 with a round Global Forever stamp, and Cleveland postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30200730
Price: $0.50
Cabin Crew
Any information there might have been about this photo has been covered up by multiple stickers and address labels. Card was mailed from Germany in 2020, with two stamps and postmark. Grade: 5

Code: 30200731
Price: $0.50
MC-21 (Russia)
According to Wikipedia, “The Irkut MC-21 is a single-aisle airliner, developed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau and produced by its parent Irkut, a branch of the United Aircraft Corporation in Russia. The initial design started in 2006 and detailed design was ongoing in 2011.” There’s no aircraft registration number visible on this generic card, but it was mailed in Russia in 2020 with two different stamps and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30200732
Price: $1.00
Logan Airport, Boston (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused card describing the airport as “one of the busiest in the world”. Grade: 1

Code: 30200733
Price: $1.00
Postcards from Romania by Eugen Mihai (set of 10)
The ten glossy, unused cards in this set produced by Romanian military photographer Eugen Mihai are all shown on its paper cover. Each postcard has a complete and informative bilingual (English/Romanian) caption and represents one or another of a variety of scenes around the country — including a fortress, IAR 99 Standard military jet trainers, TR-85 M1 battle tank, Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament, Castelui Peles (Sinaia), the training ship “Mircea”, night view from Bucharest’s North Railway Station, Horezu Monastery, The Gate of the Kiss, and Hunyadi Castle. This great set came to us via our friend Tatiana, and — given the special circumstances of the cards’ production — if you read this and want to order directly from Mr. Mihai, we’ll tell you how to do that. Or, of course, this set from us. Grade: 1

Code: 30200735
Price: $12.00
Delta Air Lines – Boeing 727
Unused card, issued by the airline. Grade: 1

Code: 30200736
Price: $2.00
Air New Zealand
The card commemorating ANZ’s inaugural Boeing 747 flight from Frankfurt to Auckland in October 1987 is captioned entirely in German, and is unmailed but has someone’s name and address written into the message area. Grade: 3

Code: 30200737
Price: $3.00
Tokyo International Airport
Now commonly known as Haneda Airport, this postcard predates the arguably more famous Narita. Haneda has an interesting track record, worth Googling but too much to write about here. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30200738
Price: $3.00
Taipei 101, aluminum (Taiwan)
A “card” for many categories. If your eyes are sharp, you’ll see we sometimes use “aluminum” and sometimes “aluminium,” depending on what (or if) the card says. Regardless, this one also says it’s made of “Alurninurn” so all bases are covered: it’s metal. Unused, in its original cellowrap, and a unique souvenir from a distinctive location. Grade: 1

Code: 30200739
Price: $7.00
Air Caraïbes
Captioned entirely in French, each of the scenes on the front gets its own little description. And would you like to know about the airline? So did we, and this is what we learned in condensed form from Wikipedia: “Air Caraïbes is based in the French West Indies, with headquarters in Guadeloupe. The airline’s main base is Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, with another base at Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport.” There you go. Unused. From the airline. Grade: 1

Code: 30200741
Price: $3.00
Trigema
TRIGEMA Inh. W. Grupp e.K. with its headquarters in Burladingen, was established in 1919 and is Germany’s largest manufacturer of sportswear and casual fashion. What they don’t have is commercial passenger air service. So this unused card showing Aero Lloyd Airbus A321 (D-ALAH) is a bit confusing, with online sources showing it shed that registration number in 2003 or 2004, switching to Livingston, or Onur Air, or who knows what. Trigema would know. We don’t. Grade: 1

Code: 30200742
Price: $4.00
Flugplatz Johannisthal
Mailed from Germany in 2021, with stamp and postmark and significant vertical crease through the middle of the card. Grade: 4

Code: 30200743
Price: $1.00
Panagra
Nothing really to do with Peru, this is an ad card from Pan American – Grace Airways (which did fly to Peru), mailed from the Canal Zone in 1954 with full postmark but missing stamp. Significant postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 5

Code: 30200744
Price: $2.00
KLM B737-800
Delivered to KLM in February 2008 as PH-BXY, this aircraft is still in active service (as of right now, anyway) and shows no recorded incidents. The postcard though was mailed in 2021 from Germany, with two stamps and blue trilingual Priority label, and assorted writings. Grade: 2

Code: 30200745
Price: $3.00
Pan American Boeing 707 Jet Clipper
Unused, official, PanAm card of an aircraft that — according to the caption — got you there in half the time with twice the comfort. By the way, that prominent vertical white line in the photo is not a crease or flaw; it’s a road. Captions in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Grade: 1

Code: 30200746
Price: $8.00

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