Unused, official card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1985.  The card is aging significantly, and has serial number 008643.  Grade: 3

Unused, official card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1983.  The card is aging significantly, and has serial number 029216.  Grade: 3

Unused maximum card issued by Correios e Telegrafos in 1981, with two postmarks.  Notable mottling (foxing) on the reverse.  Serial number 009050.  Grade: 3

Unused card issued by Correios e Telegrafos in 1981, with two postmarks. Aging somewhat.  Serial number 014555.  Grade: 2

Similar to 39600483, but we only have one, and the serial number is 024350.  Grade: 1

Similar to 39600483, but we only have one, and the serial number is 007063.  Grade: 1

Unused maximum card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1990, slight aging and with serial number 006905.  Grade: 1

Unused card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1990, aging and with serial number 006996.  Grade: 2

From 2007, this set of three cards (unused) in a cardboard cover.  The cover appears on the lower left of the scan, along with the three cards.  Two sets are available.  Grades: 1

Issued in 1985, Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos, this card is unused and with serial number 011342 on the reverse.  Slight aging.  Grade: 2

Distinctive, unused card (serial number: 013362) issued in May 1990 in conjunction with this event in Rio de Janeiro.  Note the two se-tenant stamps.  Grade: 2

Official, unused card from 1985.  The serial number on the reverse is 002538.  And if you didn’t know, Anous stolidus is the brown or common noddy, a seabird from the tern family.  Minor aging, not enough to downgrade.  Grade: 1

Here’s a back-story for you.  We were in Taipei Airport and saw that the local Chunghwa Post branch was advertising these as maximum cards, but they had no stamps.  So within the boundaries of our limited Mandarin, we asked why they were called “Maximum Cards” when they plainly weren’t.  The postal person pulled out a sheaf of stamps and a chop and said “what date would you like on them?”  This was a novelty to us, so we just said “whatever works for you,” and this is the result.  The scan shows the two cards and the cardboard cover.  Unused.  Grade: 1

True, the 1998 US film derives from this legend, and Google yields up this summary:  “Fearful that her ailing father will be drafted into the Chinese military, Mulan takes his spot — though, as a girl living under a patriarchal regime, she is technically unqualified to serve. She cleverly impersonates a man and goes off to train with fellow recruits.”  This set of four unused maximum cards reveals the “true” legend, a thousand years or so before the film.  Grade: 1 

Unused, issued in 2015 (Macau’s reference BPL 182), and what makes this unusual is that the “stamp” is a postage meter label.  We had not seen that on a maximum card before.  Six of these are available.  Grades: 1

From 2015, a set of four cards, each with a different historical building.  We have to hand it to Macau:  though the city is nearly unrecognisable from just a few years ago, much of the development has concentrated in specific areas, and the historical buildings have generally been nicely preserved–befitting a UNESCO Heritage location.  These cards bear Macau Post’s reference numbers BPL 183-186.  Unused.  Grades: 1

From 2016, a set of four Maximum Cards issued as part of a stamp series called “Fine Arts Works,” and we have a rare chance to give you official translations of the text, as part of the Government’s description of the series:  “Poster stamps were issued to reflect the struggle of the Korean people … (A) “Keep the revolutionary faith to the death!” (B) “Let us land a huge haul by emulating the working spirit of the Korean People’s Army which created a new history of golden sea!” (C) “Let us fly higher the flag of the Republic at international games!” and (D) “Let us rapidly develop all sectors by dint of science and technology!”  Though the postmarks don’t show clearly, they are there, and these are genuine Maximum Cards in the truest sense.  Grade: 1

We won’t call this a true Maximum Card because it doesn’t meet the usual criteria, but it is First Day of Issue (in 1963) and otherwise unused.  Grade: 1

Unused set of five.  The different types of Monkey year are all represented.  Grade: 1

From China National Philatelic Corporation, this set MC-113 of four maximum cards, issued in 2016.  Our scan only had room for three of them, plus part of the fourth, and the fruits include apricot, grape, watermelon, and lychee.   If you really like fruit postcards, these should fill the bill nicely.  Unused.  Grade: 1