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A Junk in Hong Kong Waterfront
This wonderful view was mailed through British Forces Air Mail using two English stamps in 1967. The card itself was published by Japan Air Lines and went to Singapore. So it has a huge international aura to it. By the way, we are here in Hong Kong now and miss scenes like this, but such junks are long gone. Grade: 1

Code: 32400560T
Price: $10.00
Homeward Bound Junks at sundown (Hong Kong)
Unused, serrated edges, and very, very heavily browned with age on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 32400561
Price: $4.00
Tai Pak floating restaurant (Hong Kong)
The restaurant was established in 1952 and, maybe unaccountably, is still there as part of a complex. There were more, but restaurants come and restaurants go. Tai Pak was featured in the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and also in 1973’s Enter the Dragon. Unused but heavily aged card. Grade: 3

Code: 32400562
Price: $7.00
Boats on the river (Bangladesh)
There’s no specific caption on this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32400563
Price: $3.00
Star Ferry (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. This is on board one of the few remaining Star Ferry vessels moving back and forth between Hong Kong Island and the mainland (Kowloon). Grade: 1

Code: 32400564
Price: $1.00
Oran, Depart du Courrier de France (Algeria)
Unused but aging real-photo card #42 from C.A.P. (Paris). Grade: 2

Code: 32400565
Price: $5.00
Walt Disney World, Paddle Wheel Steam Boat (Florida, USA)
Among Florida postcards, those from Disney World take a larger-than-life share. Here’s an official Disney card HSC-609-L (PC709), near Tom Sawyer’s Island, unused except for a small black X inked into the lower right reverse corner. One perforated edge, so this had been part of a set. Grade: 3

Code: 32400566
Price: $1.00
Tai O, Lantau Island (Hong Kong)
Two of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 32400567
Price: $2.00
Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Unused card 22910. Grade: 1

Code: 32400568
Price: $2.00
Dubrovnik (Croatia), novelty card
Three of these larger (approx. 6″x 6-1/4″) cards are available. Two are unused (Grades: 1, $3). One was mailed in 2018 with large stamp and postmark, very minor postal bumping on one corner (Grade: 1, $5).

Code: 32400569
Price: $5.00
Herceg Novi (Montenegro)
Unused card, one of many where we think a bit more captioning would be nice. Grade: 1

Code: 32400570
Price: $2.00
Herceg Novi, Montenegro
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 32400571
Price: $2.00
Kotor (Montenegro)
A reminder of your cruise holiday to this exotic destination. Or, maybe, an incentive for you to go. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 32400572
Price: $2.00
Karuč (Montenegro)
At Skadar Lake, a normal scene rendered nicely on this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32400573
Price: $3.00
Rijeka Crnojevica (Montenegro)
Unused card of a quiet scene. Grade: 1

Code: 32400574
Price: $2.00
Skadar Lake, Virpazar (Montenegro)
We visited. What you see here is basically what you get, though the card doesn’t show rows of stalls selling small boat tours of the lakeshore. It also doesn’t show the small restaurant where we had one of the best pizza and wine combos ever. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32400575
Price: $3.00
S/S Suecia — S/S Britannia
An online source says: “The Britannia and Suecia (both 4,661 grt, 376 ft. long) were both launched in 1929 and in service with Swedish Lloyd 1929-1966. They were bought by Hellenic Mediterranean Lines
and renamed Cynthia and Isthmia. They were scrapped in 1973 and 1972 respectively.” Now this unused card was issued by Swedish Lloyd, and clearly shows just one ship. How much we would enjoy knowing the logic behind that. In any case, Grade: 1

Code: 32400577
Price: $4.00
Star Cruises (Hong Kong Harbour)
Brilliant, unused, 5-1/4″ x 7″ card showing Victoria Harbour and a Star Cruises ship, among many other things — including, most rarely for a postcard, the building where we live. A shame we cannot see the harbour as clearly as the postcard sees us. Grade: 1

Code: 32400579
Price: $3.00
En route pour GANVIE (Benin)
Mailed in 1993, with stamp and very clear postmark, and aging well beyond its years, we wish we had more cards like this to offer. Grade: 3+

Code: 32400580
Price: $5.00
The grand view of Hong Kong Harbour
Same as our entry 32400452, except this one was mailed in 2018 with three different stamps and a large, clear philatelic postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32400581
Price: $3.00
Tai O (Hong Kong)
From a series of unused cards issued by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. The card calls Tai O “The Venice of Hong Kong.” Maybe, but they need to see Venice first. Grade: 1

Code: 32400582
Price: $3.00
Holdfast Shores Marina (Glenelg, Australia)
Unused card showing the Holdfast Shores Marina, a tram, and the HMS Buffalo Restaurant. Grade: 1

Code: 32400583
Price: $2.00
Mu Koh Chang National Park (Thailand)
Mailed in 2019 with three different stamps, two full postmarks, and one blue Airmail label, and captioned in Thai and English. The specific scene is Koh Man Nai, and Mu Koh Chang National Park is in Trat. Altogether, the iconic contemporary Thailand postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 32400584
Price: $4.00
Sarawak River, sampan and State Mosque (East Malaysia)
Unused, aging 5″ x 7″ card SHC/PC/112 from Sabah Handicraft Centre, with this Sarawak River scene, ca. 1993. Grade: 1

Code: 32400585
Price: $3.00
Sineokaya Vodka (Belarus)
On the front, this looks like a nicely designed card for a place. But Belarus Sineokaya is a well-known vodka, from Brest, and the reverse of the card bears an English-language logo and looks quite official. If we had any right here, right now, we would try it. Five unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 32400586
Price: $2.00
Portloe, Roseland, Cornwall (England)
Forgive us if we don’t have those place names in the correct order. A fairly old postcard, year undetermined, with its stamp and airmail sticker. Otherwise, in good condition. Grade: 1

Code: 32400587T
Price: $3.00
Port, Durresit (Albania)
The front of this old card is faded, but clear enough. The reverse, not as good: a 1974 New Year’s greeting, many stains, missing stamp, and so on. Maybe it should be grade 5 but because of the distinctive photo, we assign Grade: 4

Code: 32400588
Price: $3.00
Metamorfosi Halkidiki (Greece)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 32400589
Price: $2.00
Gedser Færgehavn (Denmark)
The good things: mailed in 1970, and two stamps and postmark are there. The photo on the front is clear and undamaged. BUT … the card is too heavily aged, and with abrasions through the caption and elsewhere. Grade: 5

Code: 32400590
Price: $1.00
Shrimp and Oyster Industry, Biloxi (Mississippi, USA)
Unused. Aged appropriately. Grade: 1

Code: 32400591
Price: $2.00
Dream Cruises (Hong Kong)
Card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-5/8″ and was mailed in 2019 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language pre-printed Circular Service imprint. The card is fully printed on both sides. Grade: 1

Code: 32400592
Price: $1.00
Dream Cruises (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-5/8″, is surprisingly blank on one side, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Grade: 1

Code: 32400593
Price: $1.00
Steamer “Natchez” and Steam Calliope (USA)
Unused “local” card. Grade: 1

Code: 32400594
Price: $2.00
“Mir”, Hamburg (Germany)
A Russian vessel on this card mailed in 2020 from Germany with three different stamps and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32400596
Price: $1.00
Rüdesheim am Rhein (Germany)
Mailed in 2020, the front of this card — showing a German winemaking town that’s part of a UNESCO Heritage area — is good. The reverse however is a jumble of stickers, stamp, labels, and extra notations that make it impossible to grade higher than: Grade: 4

Code: 32400597
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: 32400598
Price: $12.00
Constanta (Romania)
Mailed in 2021 with large stamp and two partial postmarks, this 7-1/4″ x 4-5/8″ card also has a small “All the best from Bucharest” sticker on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 32400599
Price: $2.00
Docks on the Mississippi, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA)
Old B&W photo on a much later card, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 32400600
Price: $2.00
Mayflower II, Plymouth (Massachusetts, USA)
The concise caption explains quite a lot about the history of how this vessel wound up from Great Britain at the Plimoth Plantation Eel River Site. Mailed in 1957, with 2-cent stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32400601
Price: $2.00
Boats on a Pond (USA)
It’s a small, old, unused, linen Curteich-Chicago “C.T. Art-Colortone” card 8A-H1778 (S-431), of a type popular in the 1940s, maybe less so now. We can’t tell if they are fishing or not. While the card may not be too inspiring … we still wish we were in the scene right now. Grade: 1

Code: 32400603
Price: $2.00

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