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Maid of the Mist at American Falls (Ontario)
Early version of Maid of the Mist (now it has two levels), on an unused card published for the Seagram Tower. Grade: 2

Code: 32400138
Price: $3.00
M/V Glacier Bay Explorer
A nice card mailed from Juneau in 1984 with 20-cent stamp and full postmark. We are wondering if the snow is still there now. Grade: 1

Code: 32400139
Price: $3.00
Sampans (Hong Kong)
Another fast-disappearing scene. Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 32400140
Price: $3.00
Queen Mary (Long Beach, California)
This unused “Official Queen Mary Souvenir” card from the late 1960s has serrated edges and would be a superb specimen were it not that someone cut a small notch out of the lower right front corner. It’s in the white border area only. But it reduces the condition to Grade: 5

Code: 32400141
Price: $1.00
Queen Mary, silhouetted (USA)
Unused card with serrated edges, aging now, like its subject. Grade: 2

Code: 32400142
Price: $3.00
Junk at sunset (Hong Kong)
Unused 5″ x 7″ card 001 from the Tourists Cards series. Actually there aren’t many (or any) more of these in Hong Kong’s harbour now. Grade: 1

Code: 32400143
Price: $2.00
Royal vessel for Handover ceremony (Hong Kong)
British dignitaries used this in the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997. Of course, in this card, you can barely see it because of the support vessel. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 32400144
Price: $5.00
Boat People at Aberdeen fishing village (Hong Kong)
This type of scene is now to be found only on postcards, where it is undeniably safer and healthier than before. Unused 5-1/2″ x 7″ card 013 from Tourists Cards. Grade: 1

Code: 32400145
Price: $3.00
Jaanmurtajat (icebreakers) (Finland)
From 2010, a card with stamp, partial postmark, blue Priority sticker, and the address fully taped on. Grade: 3

Code: 32400146
Price: $1.00
Kvarken Archipelago (Finland)
Finland deserves full marks for their postage stamps. This card, mailed but with no postmark, has an exceptionally clever stamp of a comic pumpkin. We will be very happy if someone lets us know the symbolism behind this! As for the card, mailed in 2010, it shows to no great advantage Finland’s first World Natural Heritage. Grade: 3

Code: 32400147
Price: $2.00
The Wings of Freedom, Rouen (France)
Les voiles de la Liberte. Larger (4.75″ x 6.75″) card with two stamps and full postmark, also just a little bit of postal battering. Grade: 2

Code: 32400148
Price: $2.00
Chinese junk (Hong Kong)
The photo on this unused card dates from the late 1970s or so. The only sails like this now visible in Hong Kong Harbour are on tourist vessels, and almost none of those. You know how else we know it’s an old picture? The crystal-clear sky. Mailed in 2011 with five stamps, two full postmarks, and blue trilingual airmail sticker. Grade: 2

Code: 32400149
Price: $8.00
Boat People in Causeway Bay (Hong Kong)
Unused card from (likely) the mid-to-late 1990s, judging from the Salem sign in back and the absence of one very tall building (IFC2) that was just being built. Alas, this type of scene is more or less gone from Hong Kong now. It used to be possible to sit in a sampan and other boats would glide alongside and cook a meal for you. What with pollution and all, that might not be so much fun now anyway. Grade: 1

Code: 32400150
Price: $4.00
Saugatuck Chain Ferry (USA)
Unused Saugatuck Drug Company card P316257 showing the hand-cranked ferry, established in 1838, that spans the Kalamazoo River. Grade: 1

Code: 32400151
Price: $1.00
Jumbo Restaurant (Aberdeen, Hong Kong)
Alas, poor Jumbo, who met her end in 2022 under circumstances even Agatha Christie would admire. Unused Tourists Cards (5-1/2″ x 7″) #038. Grade: 1

Code: 32400152
Price: $6.00
The Blue Funnel Line (England)
Without more extensive research, we don’t know which of the Blue Funnel Line vessels this was. The card is artwork not a photograph. It was mailed in 1914, with stamp and full postmark. Nice … but what ship is it? Grade: 2

Code: 32400153
Price: $29.00
R.M.S. Empress of Canada
On July 5, 1930, Mr. Thibault of Manila either handed this card or received it as Compliments–not postally used, and heavily faded, but iconic and original for this vessel. Grade: 4

Code: 32400154
Price: $31.00
Conte Rosso, Lloyd Sabaud, Sala de escritura
Not postally used, and creased near the left edge, this vintage postcard has a long message in French that fully occupies the reverse. A scene like this is so unimagineable today. Grade: 4

Code: 32400155
Price: $21.00
Glass Bottom Boats, Silver Springs (Florida)
Unused card whose caption says “Spring is largest in world.” Grade: 2

Code: 32400156
Price: $1.00
Glass-bottom boats (Florida)
Unused chrome Koppel Color Card FG 78 (30304). Grade: 2

Code: 32400157
Price: $2.00
Small motorboat, Riverfront Park, Daytona Beach (Florida)
Unused but heavily handled chrome Dexter Press card 93596. Grade: 3

Code: 32400158
Price: $0.50
Sailing at Sunset upon a Peaceful Lake in Florida
Unused Tichnor card 65153. Grade: 1

Code: 32400159
Price: $2.00
Mackay Harbour, The Roylens (Australia)
Possibly dating from 1950s, extensive written message but not postally used. Grade: 4

Code: 32400160
Price: $6.00
T.N. Conte Rosso
In 1935, Doris wrote to Miss Fullerton from shipboard en route to Shanghai. She used this card, with its two different stamps and full postmark. Somehow, Miss Fullerton in Hong Kong (staying at the Peak Hotel, which burned down in 1938) received the card, and then, many years later, so did we. And so can you. Worth it. Grade: 3

Code: 32400161
Price: $49.00
Rickmer Rickmers, Hamburg (Germany)
Mailed card, stamp and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 32400162
Price: $3.00
Dragon Boat Festival (Hong Kong)
Or, more accurately, the decoration on one vessel, shown on this unused 5-1/2″ x 7″ Tourists Cards #011. Grade: 1

Code: 32400163
Price: $3.00
Astrakhan, day of the naval forces (Russia)
The caption is bilingual Russian/English on this card mailed in 2011 with three stamps and mostly legible postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 32400164
Price: $6.00
Canoe (Texas)
The cypress trees are “A familiar scene along the rivers of the Hill country of Texas.” The canoe is a canoe. Unused Plastichrome card P98295. Grade: 2

Code: 32400165
Price: $1.00
Boat House, Bronx Park, New York City
Unused Manhattan Post Card Co. card 102227 showing “one of the finest parks in America.” The front of this card is in terrific condition; the reverse edges are flaking and abraded, and there’s a small tape residue. Grade: 3

Code: 32400166
Price: $6.00
Steamer Virginia Lee (USA)
Old Curteich-Chicago linen card was mailed in 1947. The postmark is there but the stamp is abraded and there’s also tape residue. However if you’ve been looking for a card of this vessel … Grade: 4

Code: 32400167
Price: $3.00
Sha Tau Kok – Small Boat between Two Shores (Hong Kong)
You will need to see our complete explanation for entry 203081066 in the “Hong Kong” category (search “Sha Tau Kok”). This unused card is captioned, in Chinese only, as “Returning” and was a Bronze Award winner in the competition. Grade: 1

Code: 32400168
Price: $10.00
Modern steel sightseeing boat (Wisconsin Dells) (USA)
Unused H.H. Bennett card, and we have two of them. One is Grade: 2 ($0.50) and the other Grade: 1 ($1.00).

Code: 32400169
Price: $0.50
S.S. Princess Norah (Canada)
Unused vintage Bulman Bros. B.C. Ltd. card “Reproduced from pencil drawings by a British Columbia artist.” Grade: 2

Code: 32400170
Price: $11.00
Ferryboats (Seattle, Washington)
Contemporary card mailed in 2011 with postmark and three different stamps. Grade: 2

Code: 32400171
Price: $1.00
Aix-les-Bains, Gorges du Sierroz, Le Bateau
Unused, very old and moldy B&W card. The front is passable; the reverse is badly marred, though unwritten. Grade: 5

Code: 32400172
Price: $3.00
Suffolk Heritage Coast (England)
Multiview card mailed in 2011 with stamp and postmark, and blue bilingual airmail sticker affixed, showing scenes in Southwold, the Tide Mill in Woodbridge, the Moot Hall in Aldeburgh, Dunwich, and lighthouses of the area. Orange postal barcoding. Grade: 2

Code: 32400173
Price: $3.00
South Harbour, Helsinki
Mailed in 2011 with what might be a Formula One stamp, full Helsinki postmark, and bilingual Priority label affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 32400174
Price: $4.00
U-505 Submarine (Chicago, USA)
Mailed in 2011 with 98-cent stamp and much of the postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 32400175
Price: $1.00
Nippon Charter Cruise, Fuji Maru (Japan)
Mailed in 2011 with three different stamps, mostly legible postmark, and address and blue trilingual airmail sticker affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 32400176
Price: $5.00
Vang Vieng, Song River (Laos)
Unused card, boats and boatmen on the Song River. Boats were only a minor part of the attraction of this village at one time, but it’s changing back. Grade: 1

Code: 32400178
Price: $7.00

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