Chinatown – Global Postcard Sales

Showing 1–40 of 69 postcards

San Francisco
Beautiful unused Smith News Co. 5:SF-36 card of Grant Street from the 1950s, the most minor edge and corner abrasions and aging, but not enough to warrant any less than Grade: 1

Code: 33000001
Price: $3.50
New York City
Detroit Publishing Co. produced “Phostint” cards, of which this unused example 8984 is captioned “In Chinatown, New York.” May date from about 1912. Minor album indents on corners. You may know, parts of Hong Kong still look a little bit like this today. Grade: 2

Code: 33000002
Price: $12.00
Grant Avenue street scene, San Francisco
From Cardinal Vincent Co., their card 108393 with a Grant Avenue street scene in Chinatown. Unmailed card, a little battered around the edges but definitely for anyone building an Asiana collection from the USA. Grade: 3

Code: 33000004
Price: $17.00
San Francisco
Black and white J.C. Bardell card, unused, lightly aged but great addition to a Chinatown collection. Grade: 1

Code: 33000005
Price: $7.50
New York City – Welcome
New York City’s Chinatown as it was in the 1960s, on Progressive Publications unused card 63763 (and #63). The written caption on the front basically says Welcome to New York City’s Chinatown. Grade: 1

Code: 33000006
Price: $5.00
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Yes, it’s Chinatown all right, though somehow they only want you to see the tops of umbrellas. Card from 1991, full stamp, partial postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 33000009
Price: $3.00
Singapore
Card from late 1980s, showing Chinatown and Arab Street. Three are available. One is unused (Grade: 1, $4) and the others were mailed in 1990 with three different stamps and mostly legible postmarks (Grades: 1, $6).

Code: 33000010
Price: $4.00

Chinatown by Night (Singapore)

At one point, Singapore was doing its best to excise any trace of history or life in places like this card shows. Happily, common sense kicked in. Unused Associated Marketing Agency card A25 with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 33000012

Price: $3.50

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Three of these are available, all mailed. Two are Grade: 2 ($5), and the other Grade: 3 ($2.50).

Code: 33000013
Price: $5.00
Kuo Wah Cafe, San Francisco
This isn’t a postcard, but a tiny menu (5″ x 6.4″) able to be sent like one. Just think of a folded menu where the back cover resembles the back of a postcard. The inside has all of Kuo Wah’s dishes (and prices) from the late 1950s. So it’s a wonderful piece of memorabilia, except that it had been pasted into a scrapbook and the back page has the glue and paper remnants of that. Wording of the menu inside is not affected. Grade: 4

Code: 33000014
Price: $8.50
San Francisco, Old Chinatown
Spectacular old, unused Pacific Novelty card S.F. 122. Grade: 1

Code: 33000015
Price: $19.00
Parade of the Tongs, Chinatown (USA)
Aunt Sadye chose this card to mail to Master Chas. in 1911, with stamp and postmark fully intact, and a cute message we would not be likely to see these days. This is Edw. H. Mitchell card 1648, edge abrasions indeed, but an important addition to anyone’s “Chinatown” collection. Grade: 2

Code: 33000016
Price: $19.00
Streets of Chinatown – lions (Singapore)
Unused 3-3/4″ x 8-1/4″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 33000017
Price: $5.00
Streets of Chinatown – shops (Singapore)
Unused 3-3/4″ x 8-1/4″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 33000018
Price: $5.00
Jerry’s Famous Jade Lounge, At Jerry’s Joynt–in Old Chinatown (Los Angeles)
Unused E.C. Kropp card 29971 showing their “3600 years old Chinese carving”. The restaurant, alas, is long gone. The card survives. We wonder where the carving went. Grade: 2

Code: 33000019
Price: $4.00
Petaling Street Chinatown night market, Kuala Lumpur
Three cards are available. One was mailed in 1990 with one stamp and postmark completely intact. Some white correction fluid was used on reverse by original sender (Grade: 3, $4). The other was sent in 1991 with a Melaka stamp and partial postmark (Grade: 2, $4). The third was mailed in 1989 with an uncancelled stamp, and blue bilingual Mel Udara sticker affixed (Grade: 4, $3).

Code: 33000020
Price: $4.00
Hilton International Singapore, Chinatown
Mailed in 1985 from Malaysia (not Singapore!) with three stamps and multiple if faint postmarks. Grade: 3

Code: 33000021
Price: $4.00
Bangkok, Jawaraj Road, Chinatown
Brilliant Chinatown postcard, mailed in 1990 with three large commemoratives and full postmark. The card is attributed to China-Town in the caption on the reverse. Minor creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 33000022
Price: $8.00
Bangkok, China-Town
Mailed in 1991 with three different (and large) commemoratives, and faint postmarks. Grade: 2

Code: 33000023
Price: $8.00
Bangkok, China Town (Thailand)
This unused card from 2012 shows Yaowarat Road. Grade: 1

Code: 33000024
Price: $4.00
Imperial Chinese Archway, Manchester (England)
Not postally used, but with inked notations on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 33000025
Price: $1.00
New York City, East on Pell Street
Unused card, aging. Grade: 3

Code: 33000026
Price: $5.00
New York City
Unused Mirro-Krome H.S. Crocker K-142 card, with someone’s name and address rubber-stamped on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 33000027
Price: $3.00
Los Angeles
Unused “Colourpicture” linen postcard K7507, not captioned other than what you see on the front, but the card was distributed by a firm in Sherman Oaks, California, so we know this scene is in Los Angeles. Well, we know anyway because we used to live there. Grade: 1

Code: 33000028
Price: $5.00
Los Angeles, Gin Ling Way
Curteichcolor card mailed in 1971 with 6-cent stamp and full postmark, and it shows “fantastic towers and pagodas”. Grade: 2

Code: 33000029
Price: $6.00
Greetings from Chinatown, New York
Unused linen card. Grade: 2

Code: 33000030
Price: $6.00
Los Angeles, Enchanting Chinese Settlement
Despite what the caption says, Old China most likely never looked like this. Linen card, mailed in 1948 with stamp and Claremont postmark, and additional note that the card had been answered shortly after receipt. Grade: 3

Code: 33000031
Price: $6.00
New York, Mott Street
Could there be more of a Chinatown postcard than this? Mailed in 2012 with four different stamps (two uncancelled) and readable postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33000032
Price: $4.00
Chinese Lantern Festival, Toronto (Canada)
Mailed in 2012 with three different stamps, postmark, and blue Airmail and Canadian flag stickers on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 33000033
Price: $3.00
Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Petaling (Malaysia)
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card showing this famous tourist area in K.L. The card makes it look a lot grander than it really is, but no doubt it’s a colourful destination. Grade: 1

Code: 33000034
Price: $2.00
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card showing The Pavilion shopping mall, three views of Chinatown (Jalan Petaling area), and the KL Monorail. Grade: 1

Code: 33000035
Price: $3.00
Nankinmachi (Kobe, Japan)
Mailed in 2012, this card has two different stamps, Kobe postmark, and address and Par Avion labels affixed. Grade: 3

Code: 33000036
Price: $4.00
San Francisco
Unused Dexter Press card 52892-B with a view of Grant Avenue, and a cable car, and a Taiwanese flag that’s probably not there right now–but we’ve not looked, lately. Grade: 1

Code: 33000037
Price: $5.00
Chinese General Store, Barkerville (BC, Canada)
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 33000038
Price: $2.00
Interior of a Chinese Restaurant (California)
Oddly, the card doesn’t say specifically which restaurant, or where; but the card was made in San Francisco, and mailed from Sacramento, so … Undivided back, stamp, and a postmark with date but no year. Grade: 4

Code: 33000039
Price: $2.00
Vancouver, Chinatown Gates (Canada)
Issued in 2013 by Canada Post, with pre-printed international postage matching the design (maximum card style, but not a true maximum card), mailed in 2013 with extensive postmarking, and orange postal barcoding on bottom front. Grade: 3

Code: 33000040
Price: $3.00
Kuala Lumpur, Chinatown, Medan Pasar (Malaysia)
At one time, nearly all of Kuala Lumpur qualified as “Chinatown.” Not now. Unused, 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ Sepia Collection card SP-034. A small smudge in the sky area is originally part of the card. Grade: 1

Code: 33000041
Price: $3.00
San Francisco, “Street of the Gamblers”
Two of the four edges on this unused card are perforated, so it came out of a book. And there is a black X inked on the lower right reverse corner. Grade: 3

Code: 33000042
Price: $1.00
Bangkok, Yaowarat Road, multiple views
Unused card with much information (in Thai) in the area where the stamp would go. We should add that Yaowarat Road is the main artery through Bangkok’s Chinatown. Grade: 1

Code: 33000043
Price: $3.00
San Francisco Chinatown
Judging by the cars, an old photo on an unused card E-349. Grade: 1

Code: 33000044
Price: $3.00

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