Christmas/New Year – Page 9 – Global Postcard Sales

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Hongkong Post 2018 Christmas
These go out to people like us who subscribe to the new stamp issue programme. But they use pre-printed bilingual postal imprint, not actual stamps. Orange postal barcoding on reverse. Despite all that, Grade: 1

Code: 38000327
Price: $0.50
Generic Christmas (set of 6)
Set of six unused cards — what you see here gives you the idea — and while they were printed in Taiwan, the cards don’t say so. The price is for the set, not per card. Grades: 1

Code: 38000328
Price: $2.00
Mountains (Taiwan)
It’s probably just us, but we find the design on this unused card to be vaguely creepy. Very glossy, and made in Taiwan though the card does not say so. Grade: 1

Code: 38000329
Price: $1.00
Santa pulling sleigh
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38000330
Price: $1.00
2019 Lunar New Year lottery card (Year of the Pig) (PR China)
Unused 4″ x 7-1/4″ card, the same in all material respects as other New Year cards from PRC in previous years. Grade: 1

Code: 38000331
Price: $2.00
(Lunar New) Year of the Horse 2014 (Canada)
Mailed in 2014 with pre-printed postage and fully legible postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 38000332
Price: $2.00
Christmas/New Year (Finland)
Mailed in 2014 with three stamps, Priority label, and faint postmark. Legend is in Finnish on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 38000333
Price: $1.00
Gezuar Uitin e Re (Happy New Year) (Albania)
This card had been mailed, but the stamp is long gone. Grade: 5

Code: 38000334
Price: $2.00
Merry Christmas (Hongkong Post)
Hongkong Post sends these out every year to its subscribers. This went in 2019 and has a bilingual Chinese/English postal imprint. Grade: 1

Code: 38000335
Price: $0.50
Year of the Rat 2020 (Canada)
Government’s 4-3/4″x 6-3/4″ Postage Paid card, mailed in 2020 though without postmark, which now seems routine for Canada Post. Grade: 1

Code: 38000336
Price: $2.00
New Year (1) (Taiwan)
First of three unused Lunar New Year lottery cards, numbered and with pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 38000337
Price: $2.00
New Year (2) (Taiwan)
Second of three unused Lunar New Year lottery cards, numbered and with pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 38000338
Price: $2.00
New Year (3) (Taiwan)
Third of three unused Lunar New Year lottery cards, numbered and with pre-printed postage. Grade: 1 (Do you want all three? $5)

Code: 38000339
Price: $2.00
Come Back Home – Merry Christmas (A) (Hong Kong)
Actual (unused) postcard with pre-printed address to which sympathisers could theoretically mail messages of support to persons being held in Shenzhen. Grade: 1

Code: 38000340
Price: $4.00
Come Back Home – Merry Christmas (B) (Hong Kong)
Actual (unused) postcard with pre-printed address to which sympathisers could theoretically mail messages of support to persons being held in Shenzhen. Grade: 1

Code: 38000341
Price: $4.00
Hong Kong Disneyland – 15th Anniversary – Operation Santa Claus (A)
One of two postcard variants Disney issued in 2020 to celebrate its 15th anniversary (even while the park was closed) and to generate proceeds for a local charity called Operation Santa Claus. These were really hard to get. Card measures 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″, and for good reasons can only be a very limited edition. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38000342
Price: $9.00
Hong Kong Disneyland – 15th Anniversary – Operation Santa Claus (B)
One of two postcard variants Disney issued in 2020 to celebrate its 15th anniversary (even while the park was closed) and to generate proceeds for a local charity called Operation Santa Claus. These were really hard to get. Card measures 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″, and for good reasons can only be a very limited edition. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38000343
Price: $9.00
New Year (Russia)
Cute traditional design on a card mailed in 2020, with two stamps and large postmark — but also pasted address labels. Grade: 4

Code: 38000344
Price: $0.50
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

Code: 38000345
Price: $4.00
Happy New Year 2020
Not being certain of the origin of this card, we can say the front is as you see, and the reverse (mailed from S. Korea with two stamps and no clear postmark) is a mess of labels and stickers. Grade: 5

Code: 38000346
Price: $0.50
Merry Christmas 2020 – Hongkong Post
Mailed in 2020 by Hongkong Post using a pre-printed bilingual postage imprint. Grade: 1

Code: 38000347
Price: $0.50
Peaceful Christmas! (Hong Kong)
Unused card coming at the tail end (Christmas 2020) of the most turbulent time in Hong Kong’s recent history. Grade: 1

Code: 38000348
Price: $3.00
The Bar Code
Normally this would have been a slightly generic Christmas/New Year wish, with nothing particularly special about it. It was mailed from Indonesia in 2020, with two stamps and postmark. But that bar code sticker you see is not part of the design. For reasons best known to Pos Indonesia, it started requiring or somehow supplying these code labels not long ago. Mostly they appear on the reverse of any card, so as not to spoil the view. Not this time. It is exactly as received. We are listing it in the off chance someone collects postal oddities like this. How to grade? To be safe, Grade: 5

Code: 38000349
Price: $0.50
Movie Scenic Locations in Hong Kong (set of four)
Our scan shows you the front of one card and the back of another, from the set of four Hong Kong Post “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 68”. That’s the Jumbo floating restaurant, which we hoped would reopen eventually but it’s gone now. The other three cards show Two International Finance Centre, the “Monster Building” (in a residential area), and Kau U Fong, what used to be an obscure residential lane. Each of these locations featured in a local or international film during the past few years; and, no, we have no idea why Santa Claus is prominent on each card apart from their having been issued in December 2021. Three sets are available. The cards are unused, but two sets have special postmarks while one set has none. Each set: Grade: 1

Code: 38000353
Price: $16.00
Milwaukee, Mitchell Park Christmas Decorations (Wisconsin, USA)
Mitchell Park was (or is) prolific with special displays for the many rotating holidays. Here’s unused L.L. Cook card 82275 showing Christmas decorations in the main lobby. Grade: 1

Code: 38000354
Price: $1.00
Milwaukee, Mitchell Park, Flocked Christmas Tree (Wisconsin, USA)
Another example of Mitchell Park’s seasonal activity, this time on L.L. Cook unused card 82273. Grade: 1

Code: 38000355
Price: $1.00
Wishing You Christmas Joy
Unused, and looks old, but somehow we’re not certain of that. Like any good antique, buy it because you like it and not because someone says it’s old. Grade: 1

Code: 38000356
Price: $0.50
Joyous Christmas
We know this unused card is a reproduction of an old design because the caption says so. Grade: 1

Code: 38000357
Price: $1.00
Trinkaus Manor, Oriskany (New York, USA)
This restaurant was famous locally until it burned down in 1992. Google is replete with stories and context surrounding the seasonal decorations and other elements of Trinkaus fame. The unused postcard has a small plain white sticker near the upper reverse edge — maybe someone’s earlier price was there — but there’s not a lot more we can say. Grade: 3

Code: 38000358
Price: $1.00
Christmas (Sri Lanka)
Unused, official card with pre-printed postage on the back mirroring the design of the stamp on the front. Grade: 1

Code: 38000359
Price: $4.00
Merry Christmas
Unused old postcard, embossed and absolutely representative of its era. Shows its age, but nice anyway. Grade: 2

Code: 38000360L
Price: $2.00
Year of the Pig (2019) (set of 5) (Maximum Cards) (Macau)
Another of our messy scans, but we only have so much room. There are five maximum cards from 2019 in this set honouring the Year of the Pig (and different elements of Pig) in Chinese and Portuguese — Ano Lunar do Porco. The set comprises CTT (Macao Post) set BPL 240-244. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38000361
Price: $20.00
Ano Lunar do Bufalo (Year of the Ox – 2021) (Set of 4) (~Maximum Cards) (Macau)
A set of four cards issued for 2021 by CTT in the maximum style, meaning stamp and postmark on the front but stamps don’t quite match the cards’ designs. These have CTT reference numbers BPL 268-271. Grade: 1

Code: 38000362
Price: $22.00
Ano Lunar do Tigre (Year of the Tiger – 2022) (Set of 4) (Maximum Cards) (Macau)
Official CTT four-item maximum card set BPL 280-283 from 2022. Grade: 1

Code: 38000363
Price: $22.00
Ano Lunar do Coelho (Year of the Rabbit – 2023) (Set of 4) (~Maximum Cards) (Macau)
Another CTT set of four unused cards for 2023 (BPL 296-299) in maximum style, meaning that the stamps don’t quite match the cards — but close enough, thematically. Grade: 1

Code: 38000364
Price: $22.00
Lunar Year of the Tiger 2022 (set of 6) (PR China)
Issued by China Post, with pre-printed postage and remarkable lottery and QR code attachments … our scan shows the cover and two of the unused cards in this set of six. Hard to believe we’ve already cycled through the Chinese calendar, but so it is! Grade 1

Code: 38000365
Price: $12.00
Seasons Greetings 1962 (USA)
… and Happy New Year, but we have *absolutely no idea* what is going on here. The front of the embossed card is as you see, with that small individually-paged 1962 calendar at the bottom. It seems a bit fragile, so we have not tried to flip those pages and see if they are all there. But that is not the real mystery. The card was mailed in 1911 (not 1961 or 1962) from St. Louis. The stamp and postmark are there, and we cannot say whether the calendar was added later or not. Otherwise, Grade: 1

Code: 38000366
Price: $5.00
Hongkong Post – Merry Christmas
As mailed with their bilingual postal imprint for either 2021 or 2022, not certain which one. Grade: 1

Code: 38000367
Price: $0.50
Kandy (Ceylon)
Despite two overlapping postmarks, it’s hard to say when this old postcard was mailed — early in the 20th century, we think. As many senders did in those days, they wrapped the stamp over to the front. It might not be obvious in the small scan, but there’s a “Christmas Greetings” imprint on the upper left. Grade: 1

Code: 38000368
Price: $7.00
Merry Christmas from Hongkong Post (2023)
Mailed with address label using the post office’s bilingual postage imprint. Grade: 1

Code: 38000369
Price: $1.00

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