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Chinese New Year, sincere prayers (Hong Kong)
Unused card issued by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. Grade: 1
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Chinese Traditional Folk Festivals (Taiwan)
This is a form of ad card, somehow linking Western and Lunar New Years, and fully pre-printed in Chinese on the entire reverse. Grade: 1
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2019 Lunar New Year (Pig) – vertical (Taiwan)
Unused, official card with NT$5 pre-printed postage and in its original cellowrap with overwritten card details (all in Chinese). Two of these are available. Grades: 1
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2019 Lunar New Year (Pig) – horizontal (Taiwan)
Unused, official card with NT$5 pre-printed postage and in its original cellowrap with overwritten card details (all in Chinese). Two of these are available. Grades: 1
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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
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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
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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
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Santa pulling sleigh
Unused. Grade: 1
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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
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(Lunar New) Year of the Horse 2014 (Canada)
Mailed in 2014 with pre-printed postage and fully legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Christmas/New Year (Finland)
Mailed in 2014 with three stamps, Priority label, and faint postmark. Legend is in Finnish on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Gezuar Uitin e Re (Happy New Year) (Albania)
This card had been mailed, but the stamp is long gone. Grade: 5
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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
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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
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New Year (1) (Taiwan)
First of three unused Lunar New Year lottery cards, numbered and with pre-printed postage. Grade: 1
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New Year (2) (Taiwan)
Second of three unused Lunar New Year lottery cards, numbered and with pre-printed postage. Grade: 1
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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)
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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
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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
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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 two good reasons can only be a very limited edition. Unused. Grade: 1
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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 two good reasons can only be a very limited edition. Unused. Grade: 1
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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
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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
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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
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Merry Christmas 2020 – Hongkong Post
Mailed in 2020 by Hongkong Post using a pre-printed bilingual postage imprint. Grade: 1
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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
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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
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Lunar Year of the Monkey (2016) (Macau)
See our entry 20315167 (Macau) and others like it in that category for information about this 2016 unused presentation card. Grade: 1
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Lunar Year of the Monkey (2016) (Macau)
See our entry 20315167 (Macau) and others like it in that category for information about this 2016 unused presentation card. Grade: 1
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Forest Park, Christmas Display in Jewel Box, St. Louis (Missouri, USA)
Unused Tichnor Bros. Lusterchrome card K-9110. Grade: 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Joyous Christmas
We know this unused card is a reproduction of an old design because the caption says so. Grade: 1
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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
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Christmas (Sri Lanka)
Unused, official card with pre-printed postage on the back mirroring the design of the stamp on the front. Grade: 1
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Merry Christmas
Unused old postcard, embossed and absolutely representative of its era. Shows its age, but nice anyway. Grade: 2
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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
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Ano Lunar do Bufalo (Year of the Ox – 2021) (Set of 4) (~Maximum Cards) (Macau)
A set of four unused 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