Balloons (hot and not) – Global Postcard Sales

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Hot air balloon (Phoenix, Arizona)
This Smith-Southwestern 1530 card was mailed in 1995, with one 50-cent stamp and address label affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 32000001
Price: $2.00
Aquatennial (Minneapolis, USA)
A nice catch for a balloon card collector, at an uninflated price. Card was mailed in 1983 with an airmail sticker and one stamp but two heavy postmarks overlaying each other. Grade: 3

Code: 32000002
Price: $2.00

Hot air ballooning (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Albuquerque’s Hot Air Balloon Festival with the Rio Grande River in the foreground. Card was mailed in 1996, has a San Diego postmark, a 52-cent Humphrey stamp, and USPS bar coding next to a small abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 32000003

Price: $2.00

Hot air ballooning (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Winston balloon in Hong Kong
Five of these unused cards are available, showing the Winston balloon that was launched in Hong Kong in 1980. Four cards are grade 1, one is grade 3 ($1).

Code: 32000004
Price: $2.00
Love from Maryland
Unused card but with light smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 32000005
Price: $2.00
Generic (Finland)
Actually this card was printed in Sweden and mailed from Finland with stamp but no legible postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 32000006
Price: $1.00
Homecoming (Australia)
“Homecoming” is the name given to this picture by the photographer. Mailed in 2011 with heavily postmarked stamp and blue bilingual airmail sticker. Grade: 2

Code: 32000007
Price: $3.00
Tartu hetkeen! (Finland)
In Finnish, “seize the moment!” Mailed in 2011, national park stamp, illegible postmark, and two extra little stickers of numbers. Grade: 3

Code: 32000008
Price: $2.00
Colorado (USA)
Mailed in 2011 with three different commemorative stamps, but some abrasion and postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 32000009
Price: $2.00
Posted in The Netherlands
This 4-7/8″ x 6-7/8″ item sure looks like a postcard on the front but it has no printing at all on the reverse apart from what was done to mail it in 2011: three stamps, postmark, message. Grade: 2

Code: 32000010
Price: $3.00
A little kiss (Thailand)
As a side comment, we’ve seen lots of stamps, and we think Finland and Thailand have the most impressive, in their own ways. This card was mailed in Thailand in 2011, with four large and different Thai temple stamps, and two partial postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 32000011
Price: $7.00
Ballooning over Joure (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2011. Stamp and faint postmark are there. Grade: 2

Code: 32000012
Price: $2.00
The plan-scheme of a historical kernel of Kyiv (Ukraine)
photoFabrique card from 2012, with three stamps and full postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 32000013
Price: $3.00
1997 Hong Kong handover to China – ceremonies
Unused card, with this ceremony taking place in China, not Hong Kong. Grade: 1

Code: 32000014
Price: $5.00
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (set) (PR China)
What you see in this photo is the front cover of a thin but large (8-1/4″ x 11-1/4″) folio. Open it up to reveal, on the inside left, a small unused postcard from the Guang Zhou Postal Bureau (China Post) under a plastic cover; and, on the inside right, a sheet of eight 80-fen stamps each with se-tenant perforated stub of a different cartoon character. You can see the card as 32000015B. Leave it to China to come up with something like this. Grade: 1

Code: 32000015A
Price: $22.00
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (the card in the set) (PR China)
See 32000015A.

Code: 32000015B
Price: $22.00
Воздухоплаватель (Aeronaut)
This pleasant card was made in, and mailed from, Russia in 2012 with stamp and full Ekaterinburg postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32000016
Price: $3.00
Cats, gifts, and balloons (Russia)
Internet card captioned in Russian and mailed from there in 2012 with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32000017
Price: $1.00
Celebration Reuniformation of China Postcard – two views
For more details, see our entry 20308520. Split-view of sporting celebrities, including Olympic medallist Li-shan Lee, at a ribbon-cutting for a photo exhibit at the Hyatt Hotel; also Industry & Commerce representatives at a flower parade, all celebrating the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China from Great Britain. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32000018
Price: $4.00
Celebration Reuniformation of China Postcard – balloons and ceremony
See also entry 20308520. Unused card showing Hong Kong handover fetes in Wanchai, and 50,000 participants at a Buddhist ceremony. Grade: 1

Code: 32000019
Price: $4.00
Celebration Reuniformation of China Postcard – Xian, and Victoria Peak (Hong Kong)
See also entry 20308520. Celebrations everywhere: a man from Xian, and the now-replaced Peak Tower. Grade: 1

Code: 32000020
Price: $5.00
Map of Canada (with balloon)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32000021
Price: $3.00
Cartoon girl (China)
Cute unused card from China. Grade: 1

Code: 32000022
Price: $1.00
Taiwan graphic
Unused card. The reverse is quite brown and mottled but as this is a contemporary card, and the front is clean, we know this colouring is part of the design. Grade: 1

Code: 32000023
Price: $3.00
Balloons and Bicycle (Netherlands)
This 5-3/8″ x 5-1/2″ card (Feest!) was mailed in 2013 with three stamps, postmark, Priority label, and may small stickers because it was mailed by many different people. Crease on upper left corner. Grade: 4

Code: 32000024
Price: $4.00
Generic (Lithuania)
Internet postcard, mailed from Lithuania in 2013 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32000025
Price: $1.00
Winnie the Pooh character (Finland)
Official Disney licensed card 061280, made in and mailed from Finland with stamp, faint postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 32000026
Price: $6.00
New York state map and features
A card for many categories, and depending on which one you are browsing right now, we’ll leave it to you to find (like Waldo) the feature you are looking for. Mailed in 2013 with three stamps and partial postmark and some USPS processing abrasion on the reverse. Orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 32000027
Price: $1.00
New Jersey, The Garden State, map
Here we go, your very own Garden State postcard. Mailed in 2013 with round Global Forever stamp, postmark, and address label affixed. The upper right corner angles in slightly, though that may just be how the card came off the press. Balloons are there, if you search closely. Grade: 4

Code: 32000028
Price: $1.00
Die Kunst … Roter Ballon spiegelt sich im Wasser (Austria)
Other cards in this series appear elsewhere in the site. This one, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 32000029
Price: $3.00
Generic
Not much to say about an uncaptioned card mailed from Netherlands in 2013, with two stamps and postmark. Significant postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 32000030
Price: $0.50
New Mexico map
Classic New Mexico State Map postcard, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 32000031
Price: $2.00
I wanna travel around the world with you
Unused card from China. Grade: 1

Code: 32000032
Price: $1.00
Generic balloons
Mailed from Netherlands in 2013, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32000033
Price: $1.00
Girl in hot air heart balloon
Made in, and mailed from, Russia with two stamps, postmark, and address label affixed. Grade: 4

Code: 32000034
Price: $1.00
Orient Express balloon (Germany)
Mailed in 2013 with stamp, very little of the postmark, trilingual blue Priority label, and some postal abrasion on reverse right edge. Grade: 3

Code: 32000035
Price: $2.00
Reno, multiple views (Nevada, USA)
Unused “Reno Series” card 0178. Grade: 1

Code: 32000036
Price: $1.00
Reno, multiple views (Nevada) (0233)
Unused card 0233 with Street Vibrations, Hot August Nights, Reno Air Races, and the Great Reno Balloon Race. Grade: 1

Code: 32000037
Price: $2.00
EMS Belpost (Belarus)
An official card from Belpost, mailed in 2013 with two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32000038
Price: $3.00
Versailles ascension (France)
Unused old B&W card, whose captions are all on the front. Grade: 1

Code: 32000039
Price: $4.00

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