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Tamar Development Project – Postage Prepaid Postcard Series (Eight assorted sets and postmarks)(Hong Kong)
This is a group of eight sets of four cards each, most likely various postmarks similar to or the same as what we have described in entries immediately preceding this. But this group of sealed sets is still itself sealed up collectively as we received it from the Government. Expect 32 individual cards in total. And, as a footnote: after so much to-do about this massive new complex, they finally got it opened, and then guess what? Legionnaire’s Disease in a senior official’s private toilet. Grade: 1

Code: 31600129
Price: $39.00
City Hall, Shenzhen (PR China) (3D)
Three of these unused cards with pre-printed postage, dated 2009, are available. Issued by China Post, they have the 3D-effect plastic ridging and are on very heavy stock. Grades: 1

Code: 31600131
Price: $6.00
Shenzhen, City Hall (small) (PR China)
Unused card, smaller than normal (3-1/8″ x 5″) with pre-printed postage, dated 2009 and issued by China Post. Grade: 1

Code: 31600132
Price: $2.00
Court House, Phoenix (Arizona)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31600133
Price: $4.00
The Market and Govt House, Singa, Sennar Province (Sudan)
Sudan Times card No. A 15. Grade: 4

Code: 31600135
Price: $24.00
Mudirieh Wad, Medani (Sudan)
Sudan Times card No. F 29. Grade: 4

Code: 31600136
Price: $12.00
Tokyo, Diet Building
The National Diet Building (国会議事堂) is where both houses of the National Diet of Japan meet. Sessions of the House of Representatives take place in the south wing and sessions of the House of Councillors in the north wing. Completed in 1936, it’s constructed entirely of Japanese materials, with the exception of the stained glass, door locks, and pneumatic tube system. This postcard dates from mid-20th century and is unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31600137T
Price: $4.00
State Hermitage and aerial view, St. Petersburg (Russia)
We often wonder how postcards of this size (5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″) can survive being mailed, but this one did, in 2012, almost unscathed. It has one part of a stamp and full postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 31600140
Price: $4.00
Sonsbecker Ansichten 1 (Sonsbeck Views 1) – Rathaus
Mailed in 2012, with stamp, most of the postmark, and blue Priority label affixed. Orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 31600141
Price: $3.00
Moonlight on Government Buildings from G.P.H. Fiji
In December 1942 a man wrote to his mother in St. Paul, Minnesota, and mailed the card in St. Paul (it has the stamp and clear postmark) telling her that he would be in Los Angeles for Christmas. Not knowing the back story, we wonder whether mom would have been happiest getting this card from Los Angeles, St. Paul, or … Fiji. Nobody will ever know. Real photo. Grade: 4

Code: 31600142
Price: $5.00
Salt Lake City, Main Street and Federal Building (Utah, USA)
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone card 3B-H1567. How many cards tell you how wide Main Street is? Grade: 1

Code: 31600143
Price: $2.00
U.S. Court House & Post Office, Indianapolis (Indiana)
Unused, heavily aged and somewhat mottled Rotograph Co. card 27017. Grade: 3

Code: 31600148
Price: $3.00
Marion County Court House, Indianapolis (Indiana)
Mailed in 1905 with stamp and full sending postmark and part of the receiving one five days later. (Side note: why can’t today’s new-style postmarks be as clear as this originating one?) Postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 31600149
Price: $4.00
The Federal Building, Indianapolis (Indiana, USA)
Mailed in 1909, with full postmark and stamp. Really minor corner abrasions, age-appropriate. Grade: 2

Code: 31600150
Price: $4.00
Court House, Logansport (Indiana)
Unused, very old B&W Indiana News Company card A 4589, not so much stained as just heavily aged. Grade: 3

Code: 31600151
Price: $2.00
Terre Haute, United States Post Office and Court House (Indiana)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 1B-H866. Grade: 1

Code: 31600152
Price: $2.00
New Delhi, Secretariats of the Government of India
Unused Lal Chand B&W card, with one perforated edge indicating that it had been part of a set. Grade: 2

Code: 31600156
Price: $4.00
Moscow, Kremlin and Large Stone Bridge
Mailed in 2012 with three stamps and two full postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 31600157
Price: $2.00
Former and new City Hall, Taichung (Taiwan)
Unused 4-3/4″ x 8-7/8″ card published by the Taichung City Government. Grade: 1

Code: 31600158
Price: $3.00
Berlin, Reichstag (Germany)
This 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ card was mailedin 2012 with two different stamps, faint postmark, and trilingual Luftpost sticker affixed. Minor postal battering in transit. Grade: 2

Code: 31600159
Price: $2.00
City Hall, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)
“The highest structure in Philadelphia – 547′ 11-1/4″ ” with a statue of William Penn on the top. Card mailed with 5-cent atamp and indistinct postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 31600160
Price: $1.00
Custom House, Trinidad
Old, aging, unused sepia “Davidson & Todd, Ltd., Trinidad” postcard (“British Manufacture Throughout.”). Can you spot the lighthouse? Grade: 1

Code: 31600161
Price: $9.00
Tokyo, The Diet Library
Unused, older card in excellent condition. Grade: 1

Code: 31600162T
Price: $5.00
Manila, Malacanang, Executive Office of the Governor General (Philippines)
The caption helps date this unused C.T. American Art card 94881 with aging and mottling notable on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 31600166
Price: $4.00
Nassau, Government House (Bahamas)
Someone had a great holiday in 1955 and wrote this card while on their way home to the USA. The card was mailed from New York with stamp and postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 31600167
Price: $3.00
Ottawa, Royal Canadian Mint
Unused 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ card, barely bumped so we still assign it Grade: 1

Code: 31600168
Price: $3.00
Albany, The Plaza, Old Post Office and State Capitol (New York)
This card was mailed in 1960, with 3-cent stamp and full Albany postmark. But there’s a twist: the writer forgot to put any address, so the Post Office placed their large purple “Returned to Writer” chop in that space, and returned it … but to whom? The writer didn’t put her own address. Was Albany so small in 1960 that the Post Office knew who “Peggy” was? We’ll never know. Grade: 2

Code: 31600169
Price: $4.00
Greetings from the City of Washington (D.C.)
A bit odd the designer would allow the card to turn out this way, but so it is. Mailed in 1911 with stamp and clear D.C. postmark, this large letter card identifies each of the attractions, giving us the chance to list it in several theme categories also. Grade: 2

Code: 31600170
Price: $12.00
New U.S. Mint, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
Mailed in 1905 with stamp and clear postmark. A little postmark ink transfer on the front, but in great condition considering the age. Grade: 1

Code: 31600172
Price: $4.00
Abraham Lincoln statue at State Capitol grounds, Springfield (Illinois)
Unused E.C. Kropp card 8008 N, with that stain on the upper left corner. Grade: 4

Code: 31600174
Price: $0.50
Moscow, Red Square, Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin
What could be more representative of contemporary Russian postcards than this? Mailed in 2013 with four stamps and two postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 31600175
Price: $2.00
Tallinn Town Hall, Estonia (as CCCP) (Maximum Card)
This card is making us work. First, we are listing it geographically twice: once under Estonia, where it is now; and once under USSR, where it once was. Google gives us plenty of information about Tallinna Raekoda (in Estonian), describing it as “the only intact gothic style town hall in the Northern Europe.” We have no reason to dispute that. The front of the card is OK. The reverse is not. It is unwritten, but there had been some kind of stamp that was removed, and the right side looks like it had been pasted into a book or album. Because the front is fine, we give this Grade: 4

Code: 31600176
Price: $6.00
Madrid, Ministerio de Fomento
This is really an old, unused B&W postcard but is printed on paper so flimsy that it is impossible to imagine it could have been mailed and arrived safely. If you buy it, we will be certain to pack it well. We think this is the Minisry of Public Works and Transport, but don’t hold us to that. Grade: 3

Code: 31600181
Price: $3.00
Birmingham, Victoria Square and Council House (England)
Real-photo card mailed in 1956, with stamp and postmark. Significant crease on upper right, and some postmark ink transfer on the front, too. Grade: 3

Code: 31600182
Price: $1.00
The Pentagon, Arlington (Virginia)
There’s no shortage of Pentagon postcards, but the Smithsonian–which should know better, we think–loudly captions this as being in Washington, DC, when of course it is across the Potomac River in Arlington. Oh, well. Mailed in 2013 with five different stamps (two of them uncancelled) and full postmark. Perforated left edge suggests it came out of a book. Grade: 2

Code: 31600183
Price: $2.00
Toronto, Provincial Parliament Building
“A breathtaking sight as seen all aglow” on this unused, slightly aging Traveltime card S-1251. Grade: 1

Code: 31600184
Price: $3.00
Aland, First meeting of first Provincial Parliament (Maximum Card) (Finland)
Unused Maximum Card no. 9, issued on 8 June 1992, of a meeting held in Aland’s High School on 9 June 1922. Grade: 1

Code: 31600185
Price: $7.00
London, Houses of Parliament
A view from across The Thames, on a card mailed in the early 1960s with stamp, airmail sticker, and most of a postmark. A lot of handling over the years but otherwise clean. Grade: 3

Code: 31600187T
Price: $1.00
Placer County Courthouse, Auburn (California)
Unused Colorscope card S-46. Grade: 1

Code: 31600189
Price: $1.00
Minsk, Welcome to Belarus, The City Hall
Nice card, made in and mailed in 2013, with three “A” stamps and two different postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 31600190
Price: $3.00

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