Birds – Global Postcard Sales

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Birds
No idea where the card was made, but it was mailed from Holland with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30000087
Price: $0.50
Two chickens
Made in Germany and mailed from Netherlands in 2012 with three stamps, partial postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 30000110
Price: $1.00
Birds and moon
Unused. What you see is all we know. There’s no printing on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 30000236
Price: $0.50
Plucking ostriches (South Africa)
Unused, and normal aging. Published by Valentine & Sons, #500636. Grade: 1

Code: 30300004
Price: $11.00
Parrots (3D)
Photo with ridged plastic coating, in the size and shape of a postcard and meant to be used that way though reverse only has manufacturer’s information. Made in Japan. Bought in 1980’s but never mailed. Reverse is quite mottled with age. The effect is realistic and if you click the photo for a larger view you can get a good sense of it. Grade: 2

Code: 30300006
Price: $4.00
A Gannet
There actually is a caption near the bottom front of this real-photo card, but as sometimes happens, it’s white printing on a white background. We had already confirmed with our good bird-watching friend Dr. Ted that this is a gannet. Card was mailed in the UK in 1975 with a 5-1/2p stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30300010T
Price: $1.00
Cormorants (England)
J. Arthur Dixon card W.L. 415, mailed many years ago (1960s?) with a 3d stamp and indistinct postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30300011T
Price: $1.00
Africa’s beautiful birds
Despite (Kenya) stamp and Westlands postmark, we can’t make out when this card was posted, and apart from that stamp it does not focus on a specific country. But we lived in Kenya before, and those birds are all familiar (and identified in the caption), so we are confident in zeroing in on East Africa. The lilac-breasted roller; crowned crane; Scarlet-chested sunbird; and others. Grade: 1

Code: 30300012T
Price: $4.00
Bird Park (Penang, Malaysia)
Mailed in 1991 from Penang, this card shows a mandarin duck, shoveler, ruddy shelduck, and Carolina wood duck. Stamp is there, and postmark is legible. Normal postal edge abrasion and modest aging on reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 30300023
Price: $5.00
I (heart) Penang Bird Park (Malaysia)
This card shows the red-flanked lorikeet, red bishop weaver, and Lady Amherst’s Pheasant. Mailed in 1991, the card has a stamp and mostly readable postmark but the card got caught in the postmark machine and has a minor tear on left front edge. Grade: 4

Code: 30300024
Price: $5.00
Kookaburras (Australia)
Unusually bright card with kookaburras, mailed in 1985 with stamp intact and blue airmail sticker affixed. A bit of staining on reverse, nothing too significant. Grade: 2

Code: 30300037
Price: $4.50
Flamingo display, Denver Museum of Natural History
An odd card that would somehow have you believe it came from the Bahamas, but that’s only the flamingos, apparently. Mailed in 1989 from Denver with two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30300041
Price: $1.50
Dalmatian Pelicans (Malaysia)
These are Dalmatian Pelicans (“Undan Gangsa” in Malay). Card mailed in 1991 with Pulau Pinang stamp but only partly legible postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30300048
Price: $2.00
Pigeons (Bali)
Yes, we know, not like the pigeons that inhabit your home town–or ours, either. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30300053
Price: $4.00
Flamingos (Kenya)
At one time (the 1960s, when this unused card was first bought), the flamingos on Lake Nakuru were one of the world’s great natural marvels. We are afraid to go back and look. Grade: 1

Code: 30300061
Price: $4.00
Crested crane (Kenya)
These birds used to float down awkwardly and land on our lawn. Made quite a change from sparrows and starlings. Two of these cards are available. One was mailed in 1967, has a stamp and partial postmark (Grade: 2, $5). The other is unused (Grade: 1, $4).

Code: 30300062
Price: $4.00
Owls (Malaysia)
Would be a great, mailed card but for an abrasion on the bottom caused by the cancellation machine, not an uncommon problem on Malaysian postcards. Grade: 3

Code: 30300072
Price: $3.00
Brown Pelican (Belize)
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 30300075
Price: $2.00
Snowy Egret
Mailed in 1982 with a Blanche Stuart Scott 28-cent stamp and full Norfolk, VA postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30300076
Price: $1.50
Canada Goose (USA)
Mailed in 1979 with a Martin Luther King 15-cent stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30300077
Price: $1.50
Roadrunner (USA)
Mailed in 1994 with 1994 40-cent USA World Cup stamp and illegible postmark. There’s some creasing on upper right corner. Grade: 3

Code: 30300090
Price: $2.00
Mallard ducks
From 1995, the ducks somehow manage to look cold. They probably were. The card has a 40-cent Chennault stamp but only part of a postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30300099
Price: $2.00
Mallard ducks (Minnesota)
One can never have too many duck postcards. This one was mailed from St. Paul in 1992, with two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30300100
Price: $2.00
The desert roadrunner (USA)
Two unused Petley cards B14491 are available. One is Grade: 3 ($1) and the other is Grade: 1 ($1.50).

Code: 30300115
Price: $1.50
Flamingos (USA)
Unused Ward Beckett card T-8-B. Grade: 2

Code: 30300120
Price: $1.50
Whistling swans (USA)
Unused Ward Beckett card (T-32). Grade: 2

Code: 30300121
Price: $1.50
Parrots (Florida)
Unused Ward Beckett card T-11-a. Grade: 2

Code: 30300122
Price: $1.00
Kea (New Zealand)
Caption on this unused contemporary card calls this a “rather mischievous native bird.” We’ve no reason to disbelieve. Grade: 1

Code: 30300131
Price: $2.00
Pohjoisen lintuja, the common crane (Finland)
“Pohjoisen lintuja” in Finnish means “northern birds” (we think, thanks to Google) but we know this is a crane, and that the card was mailed in 2010 with a brilliant stamp, full postmark from Kuopio, and the address on an affixed label. Grade: 2

Code: 30300135
Price: $4.00
Ducks (Asia)
We say “Asia” because the card was mailed from PR China (stamp, full postmark) but we are not certain whether the card itself was made in Japan. Note abrasion at front top. Either way, it’s ducks. Grade: 3

Code: 30300139
Price: $2.00
Flamingos, Phoenix Zoo (Arizona, USA)
Unused card, starting to age. Grade: 1

Code: 30300149
Price: $0.50
Sage thrasher (USA)
Unused Petley card S-58563 just starting to age. Grade: 1

Code: 30300150
Price: $1.00
Macaws (Florida)
Unused but heavily aged Ward Beckett card T-37. Though called the Parrot Tree, these are more correctly macaws. Grade: 3

Code: 30300155
Price: $1.00
Flamingos (Florida)
So what are flamingos doing in a parrot jungle? We won’t go there. Highly aged but unused Curteichcolor card 0DK-2146 (G.549). Grade: 3

Code: 30300158
Price: $2.00
Flamingos keeping cool (Florida)
Unused, but heavily aged, Ward Beckett card T-9-a of Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida. Grade: 3

Code: 30300159
Price: $0.50
Nesting flamingos (Florida)
Unused Ward Beckett card T-8-B, of “colorful flamingos nesting beside the beautiful lagoon at Busch Gardens, located in Tampa, Florida, at Anheuser-Busch’s forty million-dollar brewery.” Yes, but do they also get free samples? Grade: 2

Code: 30300160
Price: $1.00
Flamingoes
We say flamingos, the card says flamingoes … Marineland first opened in 1938 (under a different name) and has gone through more twists and turns than a leaping porpoise since then. Watch your local news for whatever may happen next. Meanwhile, this is an unused Color-King card 120322 showing the world’s first Marine Oceanarium. Grade: 1

Code: 30300161
Price: $1.00
Flamingos (Florida)
Unused and unattributed card (though with index numbers 32503 and MS 11) of Graceful Flamingos feeding at Miami Seaquarium. Grade: 1

Code: 30300162
Price: $1.00
Roseate Spoonbills (Florida Everglades)
Quick! If someone says “Everglades,” what comes to your mind first? Of course … roseate spoonbills! No? Well. Unused, somewhat aging Curteichcolor card 8CK2211 (G.467). Grade: 2

Code: 30300163
Price: $1.00
Pekin (sic) ducks (Pennsylvania)
Unused Dexter Press card DR-34457-C showing “a group of Pekin ducks come close to shore for dinner.” If they were here in Hong Kong, for sure they would be dinner! Main caption on reverse reads “Greetings from the Pocono Mountains.” Grade: 1

Code: 30300167
Price: $2.00

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