Fire – Global Postcard Sales

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Burning coal vein, T. Roosevelt National Park (N. Dakota)
From 1970s, this unused Curteichcolor card 8DK-170 showing a fire that started in 1972. We wonder… Grade: 1

Code: 33300001
Price: $3.00
Pat Sin Leng, fire mourning (Hong Kong)
Unused card published in late 1990s. Grade: 1

Code: 33300002
Price: $3.00
Pat Sin Leng fire, flower memorial (Hong Kong)
Unused card published in late 1990s. Grade: 1

Code: 33300003
Price: $3.00
Pat Sin Leng fire, joss sticks (Hong Kong)
Never mailed card published in late 1990s. Grade: 1

Code: 33300004
Price: $3.00
Pat Sin Leng fire, victims (Hong Kong)
Unused if somewhat gruesome card from late 1990s. Grade: 1

Code: 33300005
Price: $3.00
Pat Sin Leng fire, rescuers (Hong Kong)
Unused card from late 1990s. Grade: 1

Code: 33300006
Price: $3.00
Ka Lee Building fire (Hong Kong)
A good card of a dismal event. The fire was in 1996; the card was mailed in 1999, using three stamps of which only one was postmarked, and that mark is legible. There’s a blue tri-lingual airmail sticker affixed, and the US Postal Service has, again, graciously imprinted their orange barcode across the front. Grade: 2

Code: 33300007
Price: $13.00
Zulus making fire (South Africa)
An unused Valentine & Sons card, #500,865, from Capetown. Well-aged, unmarked apart from minor corner indentations where it had once been in an album, and with a giant whiff of being patronising. Grade: 2

Code: 33300008
Price: $19.00
Firewalker (Mauritius)
Mailed in 1985, the stamp is there but only a small part of the postmark is legible. Reverse of the card is stained, but front is OK. The ceremony is “Teemeedee.” Grade: 3

Code: 33300009
Price: $4.50
Urban fire, November 1996 (Hong Kong)
Not exactly a cheery greeting, but the card itself is unused and as-new. Grade: 1

Code: 33300010
Price: $3.00
The Calamity, Vol. 5 (folio)
Fires! Landslides! Shipwrecks! Air crashes! Typhoons! All in one folio of 28 cards from late 1990s and still in original plastic wrap. Five of these sets are available, and 16 of the 28 photos should be those in the picture here. This is a spectacular way to build your “calamities and disasters” collection all at once. Grades: 1

Code: 33300011
Price: $26.00
Land Aflame (China, 1962) – movie
We’ve a long series of these unused cards, issued in Hong Kong by City Entertainment probably in the early 2000s. Here is one of them. Captions on reverse are bi-lingual Chinese and English. The cards are 4.5″ x 6.5″. Grade: 1

Code: 33300012
Price: $3.00
Burning of the Cliff House, 1907 (San Francisco)
Unused Pacific Novelty card 2922 from what must be soon after 1907. This was, and is, a very famous restaurant. Very minor edge abrasions, still good enough to be called Grade: 1

Code: 33300013
Price: $8.00
Yosemite National Park, Glacier Point, The Fire Fall (USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 9B-K25 (and 328) with such a long caption that the sender need only have written “wish you were here.” Two of these cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 33300014
Price: $1.00
Campfire, Greetings from Coleman, Texas
For a lesson in small-town economics (meaning, in this case, how to save money on postcard design), compare this card with our #33300016. This is unused Baxtone card 40315. Grade: 1

Code: 33300015
Price: $3.00
Campfire, Greetings from Stephenville, Texas
For a lesson in small-town economics (meaning, in this case, how to save money on postcard design), compare this card with our #33300015. This is also unused Baxtone card 40315. Grade: 1

Code: 33300016
Price: $3.00
Fire (Germany)
Produced in, and mailed from, Germany in 2011. Two stamps, partial postmark, and little stickers of a car and something else. Grade: 4

Code: 33300017
Price: $3.00
Luang Prabang, Awk Phansa festival, sending bad luck away (Laos)
Unused card with a bit of fingerprint smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 33300018
Price: $7.00
Destruction of San Francisco by Fire (April 18, 1906)
With message as you see, stamp and full 1908 San Francisco postmark, this and cards like it will become more important historical artifacts. Grade: 1

Code: 33300019
Price: $19.00
Chatyn Memorial Complex, Minsk (Belarus)
This fire burns in memory of World War II victims. The card was mailed in 2011 with two different stamps and full but partly obscured postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 33300021
Price: $4.00
I heart Bali, Hanoman on fire (Indonesia) (Sticker Postcard)
Hanoman is the white monkey warrior in the Ramayana fable. The scan of this unused card looks like this because we have left it in its original cellowrap. There are no wrinkles on the card itself. It’s a postcard. It’s a sticker. It’s a Sticker Postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 33300022
Price: $6.00
Matchbox label (Taiwan)
Unused card, fully explained (in Chinese) on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 33300023
Price: $5.00
Fire station, Lensk (Russia)
This 4-1/4″ x 8-1/4″ card is unused except for an I.D. number written on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 33300024
Price: $4.00
Working Dogs in Government Services (Hong Kong) (set)
Issued by Hongkong Post in 2012, this is a set of six different cards, each showing a different breed of dog, including the one used for Fire Service. The cards in this set have no postage on either side: they are just postcards. Eight sets are available. Grades: 1

Code: 33300025
Price: $12.00
Working Dogs in Government Services (Maximum Cards) (set)
Issued by Hongkong Post in 2012, this is a set of six different cards, each showing a different breed of dog with corresponding Maximum Card stamp. Of the six sets we have available now, two have special “Working Dogs in Government Services” postmarks; two have special “Philatelic Bureau” postmarks; and two have “GPO” postmarks. Prices are the same regardless. Each set in original Hongkong Post cellowrap. The sets include a card of a Labrador Retriever, used as a Fire Investigation Dog. Grades: 1

Code: 33300026
Price: $39.00
Siina onpi … (Finland)
The writer translates this as “There is brothers fine so like bull cattle.” Google Translate translates this as “It is place for the brother of a series, like the noble bull bull.” Writers are human, and Google Translate may need to sharpen up its Finnish. Either way, the card was mailed in 2012 with two stamps and Tampere postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33300027
Price: $3.00
Samoan Fire-Knife Dancer
Unused Transpac Corporation (Pago Pago) card S-101391. Grade: 2

Code: 33300028
Price: $8.00
Fire truck (Netherlands)
This seems to be an internet card but it’s well done and mailed with stamp and illegible postmark in 2012. Grade: 1

Code: 33300029
Price: $1.00
Tyumen, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug
This 3-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ card of an oil boom town was mailed from there in 2012 with two long stamps and Tyumen postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33300030
Price: $5.00
Camping (Ukraine)
Internet card, mailed from Ukraine in 2012 with three stamps and full Kyiv postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 33300031
Price: $2.00
Myslowice, Centraine Muzeum Pozarnictwa – firefighters (Poland)
A very nice contemporary card showing posters of firefighters, and as a bonus, one of the two large stamps also shows a firefighter. Two clear postmarks, and Priorytet label. To be honest, if you are a firefighter or know one, this would make a good gift or addition to your own collection. Grade: 1

Code: 33300032
Price: $4.00
World Effie Festival 2008
Mailed from Malaysia (two stamps, full postmark) for a Singapore event. Grade: 3

Code: 33300033
Price: $1.00
“Papeete” end stroke hand pumper, Columbia (California)
Unused Dexter Press card 56717-B (and B-693) with the date June 1973 inked in small letters on bottom reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 33300034
Price: $1.00
Calico ghost town, fire engine (California)
Unused Mike Roberts card C31306. Grade: 1

Code: 33300035
Price: $2.00
Mount Shasta City, 1915 Ford T (Lulu Belle)
At least we *think* this is Lulu Belle. The caption doesn’t say so, and when we went to the search engines, they led us down quite a few blind alleys. Here’s hoping that Lulu Belle didn’t go down those alleys herself. Please let us know if this isn’t right. Two of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 33300036
Price: $2.00
US Naval Training Center Fire Fighting School, San Diego (California)
Unused but somewhat smudged Dexter Press card 71813-B. Grade: 2

Code: 33300037
Price: $2.00
US Naval Training Center Fire Fighting School, San Diego (California)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 33300038
Price: $2.00
Niagara Hose Company, lights and bell (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 33300039
Price: $2.00
1928 American La France pumper, Excelsior Fire Company (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 33300040
Price: $2.00
Grass Burning Rite of Wakakusa Hill – Nara (Japan)
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33300041
Price: $2.00

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