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China Construction Bank (Hong Kong)
Ad card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″, uses Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular postage service imprint, and was mailed in 2017. Entirely in Chinese. Grade: 1
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Shanghai Commercial Bank (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ advertising card is fully printed on both sides and was mailed to Hong Kong residents in 2017 using Hongkong Post’s pre-printed Chinese-language Circular Service postage. Grade: 1
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Bank of China and HSBC (Hong Kong)
From a series of unused cards that don’t have captions. Because we live here in Hong Kong, we have filled in some of the gaps to let you know where the pictures were taken. On the left, the Bank of China HQ. The gray building under the “Ko” in Kong is HSBC HQ. Grade: 1
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Central/Admiralty, Bank of China and Lippo Centre (Hong Kong)
From a series of unused cards that don’t have captions. Because we live here in Hong Kong, we have filled in some of the gaps to let you know where the pictures were taken. Lippo Centre has a nickname in Cantonese that translates to “the Koala Bear Building”. Look closely, and think about it … Grade: 1
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E.P. Wilbur Trust Company (Pennsylvania, USA)
Really nice old (1910) ad card, mailed with indistinct postmark, and the stamp is still there. We were especially taken with the offer of 3% interest on savings accounts. By today’s standards, go for it! Grade: 1
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E.P. Wilbur Trust Company – January 1910 (Pennsylvania, USA)
So nice, for its age or any age. Mailed in December 1909, with stamp and postmark. Undivided back. Aged but that just adds to the atmosphere. Grade: 2
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E.P. Wilbur Trust Company, South Bethlehem (Pennsylvania, USA)
Scattered here and there throughout our website, you can find other months from this series … here offering December 1909, on an excellent, unused, undivided back card. Grade: 1
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Clarinda, Page County State Bank (Iowa, USA)
Bless their hearts, the bank is still there! Good karma or what, we don’t know, but well done! Neither do we know what connection John Greenleaf Whittier had with the bank, or with Clarinda, or even with Iowa … but we’re guessing managers chose from generic design options. Mailed in 1911 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Miami, Brickell Avenue (Florida, USA)
The unused card highlights Brickell Avenue as “the greatest concentration of banking business in the U.S., outside of New York City”. That sort of claim is hard to prove, or not. Grade: 1
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Sveriges Riksbank – Tio Kroner (Sweden)
For reasons you might guess, we were tempted to list this card at US$0.95, but, sorry, it’s worth more than that. The (Swedish) caption on the back — if it were in English — would read, roughly: “in those days, a ten was still worth ten” and on the front it tells you which of those items you could get for 10 kronor in 1926. Well, that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone. Unused card. Grade: 1
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East Stroudsburg, Monroe County National Bank (Pennsylvania, USA)
Even the writer of this card, mailed in 1917 (with stamp and partial postmark), acknowledged it’s an ad card, but what a good ad card it is: the somewhat generic American Express Travelers’ Cheques promotion then mailed out by individual banks (including long-gone Monroe County National) or from — as in this case — friend to friend. As a side note, while Travelers’ Cheques must still exist, around here in Asia they are met with horror by merchants and banks. Don’t even think of trying to use one. Grade: 1
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Wilmington, The Du Pont Building and Farmer’s Bank Building (Delaware, USA)
It should not be a big surprise that our innocent Google search to learn whether “Farmer’s Bank” is still there led to a mess of confusion about details as obvious as the actual name of the bank (Farmer’s? Farmers’? Farmers?) and the building itself. None of this matters much now, and the unused card is what it is. Grade: 1
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American Bankers Association Cheques (USA)
Google leaves us a bit confused about whether these were the forerunner to American Express cheques or not, but the very old postcard emphasises these A.B.A. cheques’ global reach. The card is aged and unused, and had been in an album for many years as the corners are less faded. But for collectors of financial postcards, here you go. Grade: 2
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Connersville, Fayette National Bank (Indiana, USA)
We think the successor to this bank is now FCN Bank, but the postcard is generic and gives no real clues apart from the location. But the card is iconic of its genre of bank postcards for that era, and, as you see, is clearly dated. As a bonus, it was mailed in June 1910, with stamp, postmark, and a helpful rubber stamp of where it was supposed to go. Grade: 1
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Connersville, Fayette National Bank (October, 1909) (Indiana, USA)
We’ll hand it to the bank’s managers, they were persistent (and consistent) during that year. See our entries for other months. There’s the barest minimum of an address. Times were simpler, we suppose. Grade: 1
