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Hong Kong Comic World (set)
This book of 21 cards was published by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in 2000, and contains full-colour covers of iconic local and international comic books. All are captioned in Chinese and English, and the size of the set is 4-1/8″ x 6″ x 3/8″. Unused, and a wonderful little glimpse into what molded today’s Movers and Shakers. Grade: 1

Code: 34400177
Price: $16.00
Hong Kong Railway Museum (set)
Beautiful set of ten unused cards in cover, as issued by the museum in remote Tai Po Market. The scan shows you one side of the cover, and one of the cards, which collectively show a range of trains, equipment, and museum facilities and explain everything in English and Chinese. Three sets are available. Grades: 1

Code: 34400178
Price: $22.00
New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan)
This card begins a series (in our site) of similar cards showing attractions in and around this museum. Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 34400179
Price: $3.00
New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum – Legend of the Crescent Moon Gate (Taiwan)
This card continues a series (in our site) of similar cards showing attractions in and around this museum. Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 34400180
Price: $3.00
New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum – building (Taiwan)
This card continues a series (in our site) of similar cards showing attractions in and around this museum. Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 34400181
Price: $3.00
New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum – Floating Spheres of Continuity (Taiwan)
This card continues a series (in our site) of similar cards showing attractions in and around this museum. Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 34400182
Price: $3.00
New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum – Arch of Millennium (Taiwan)
This card continues a series (in our site) of similar cards showing attractions in and around this museum. Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 34400183
Price: $3.00
New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum – another building (Taiwan)
This card continues a series (in our site) of similar cards showing attractions in and around this museum. Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 34400184
Price: $3.00
Museum of the Sea (North Carolina)
This unused Plastichrome card P79343 has top and bottom perforated edges, indicating it had been part of a set. The caption titled “Lighthouse Keeper’s Quarters” only indicates “The Outer Banks of North Carolina” as the location, and tells us that these living quarters had become the Museum of the Sea. The card is starting to age. Grade: 2

Code: 34400185
Price: $3.00
Lighthouse and Marine Museum, Fairport (Ohio, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P44745 of a lighthouse dating back to 1825. There’s a small smudge on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 34400186
Price: $4.00
Paris, Musee du Luxembourg, Whistler (France)
We wanted to tell you where the painting is now, and a little bit of the back story, but when we went to read about it, we threw up our hands. This famous painting, often called “Whistler’s Mother” though that is not the correct name, has really been around. Unused, very old and aged sepia card. Grade: 3

Code: 34400187
Price: $7.00
Louwman Museum, 125 Jaar Autoreclame, Den Haag (Netherlands)
There was an exhibition at the Louwman Museum in The Hague, celebrating 125 years of automobile advertising. The caption on the back is long and all in Dutch, but somehow doesn’t identify this car as a famous American flop, the Edsel. Mailed in 2012 with stamp and postmark. Some postmark ink smudging on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 34400188
Price: $4.00
Mus. Vat. Roma, Laocoonte (Vatican)
More specifically, Laocoon and His Sons, a marble sculpture now in the Vatican museums, and undeniably very, very old–with Wikipedia suggesting dates from 160 BC to 20 BC, “making 42 to 20 the most likely.” This is an old, unused, sepia card. Grade: 1

Code: 34400189
Price: $4.00
Museum of Natural History, Kassel (Germany)
Local ad card for this museum, mailed in 2012 with two stamps and postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 34400190
Price: $2.00
Wien, I., Museum mit Macia-Thecesien-Denkmal (Austria)
We know the card is from 1946, though looks much older. The front: what you see. The reverse: stamp, a huge special “Befreiungsfeie Wiener Secession” postmark, the attribution “508 M.L.M.W.II”, and no handwriting. (Like a first-day-of-issue cover, though we don’t know.) Grade: 1

Code: 34400192
Price: $6.00
Antwerpen – Museum van Het Steen (Belgium)
An old stone fortress/castle from the Middle Ages, this became a museum of archaeology in 1890 and has expanded to include other areas. As for the card, sepia, with stamp and postmark as you can see here. The back is unwritten, but the printed attribution reads “Ern. Thill, Bruxelles, serie Anvers phototon, no. 12”. Grade: 1

Code: 34400193
Price: $6.00
The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Mannheim Benz 1905-1909 (Dearborn, Michigan)
Mailed with 3-cent stamp but incomplete postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 34400194
Price: $1.00
Brest, Museum of Railroad Machinery. Railway Station.
This 4″ x 7-7/8″ card is dated 2011 and was mailed in 2013 with two stamps and faint postmark. Captioned in three languages. Grade: 1

Code: 34400195
Price: $4.00
Bodie Island Lighthouse, The Outer Banks of North Carolina
The Lighthouse is now part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Park, and the former Keeper’s Lodging was turned into a museum. Unused Plastichrome card P81362, just beginning to age. Grade: 2

Code: 34400196
Price: $3.00
Istanbul, Topkapi Palace, Miniature (Turkey)
Years ago, a set of cards had been sold with a cardboard cover whose two sides could also be used as postcards if they were separated. This is one of those two sides. It’s unused, and looks much like a normal but older postcard. This “miniature” is from the 17th century. Grade: 3

Code: 34400197
Price: $2.00
CC-129 Dakota (Tail No. 12963) (National Air Force Museum of Canada)
Unused 5″ x 7″ card from the National Air Force Museum of Canada showing a DC-3 aircraft that served in India from 1944-1946. Grade: 1

Code: 34400198
Price: $3.00
New York City, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Unused 5″ x 7″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 34400199
Price: $3.00
Ottawa, Bank of Canada Currency Museum Poster for 1st Victory Loan Campaign
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-1/2″ card from 2011. Grade: 1

Code: 34400200
Price: $4.00
Hong Kong Science Museum (set)
An open, but complete, set of six unused cards produced by the Science Museum in conjunction with the Urban Council. The scan shows the paper sleeve (upper left) and three of the six cards. The other three cards include a relief model of Hong Kong’s land area, a security robot on patrol in the museum, and “images made from the synchronization of a series of time-lapsed images taken by camera”. The aircraft, not incidentlly, is “Betsy,” a DC-3 built in 1942 and the first plane of Cathay Pacific Airways. Grade: 1

Code: 34400201
Price: $16.00
The Hermitage, The Golden Drawing Room (St. Petersburg, Russia)
We had the great good luck to be able to visit The Hermitage long ago, when the country was still CCCP and the city was still Leningrad. Wow! What exhibits! Now, a postcard, mailed in 2013 with four somewhat overlapping stamps and two large postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 34400202
Price: $4.00
Mackinaw City, Michilimackinac State Park, Mackinaw Lighthouse (Michigan)
As a reminder, we try to follow the spelling used on the postcards themselves. Two of these unused 1967 Hiawatha cards 46781-H (30433) are available. They say this lighthouse was built in 1872 and in operation until 1957, with “the possibility that a marine museum may some day open.” At least one internet source says the lighthouse went into operation in 1892, and that it did indeed reopen as a museum in 2004. Grades: 2

Code: 34400203
Price: $4.00
Robins Air Force Base, Museum of Aviation, Douglas C-124 (Georgis, USA)
Mailed in 2013 with five stamps, blurred modern postmark, and address label affixed. Grade: 4

Code: 34400204
Price: $0.50
Museum of Aviation Technique, MiG-15UTI (Belarus)
As with several other aviation-themed postcards from Belarus, this was “prepared with the participation of the Museum of Aviation Technique (Baravaya village of Minsk region)”. Two of these cards are available, both mailed. One has large stamp and clear postmark (Grade: 1, $4) while the other has a full postmark but partly torn stamp (Grade: 3, $2).

Code: 34400205
Price: $4.00
Baravaya, Museum of Aviation Technique, aerial view (Belarus)
Our other cards from this Museum focus on individual aircraft. This gives you the overview. Three of these mailed cards are available. One has one very large stamp and postmark Aonther has two smaller stamps, postmark, and bilingual Prioritaire chop. The third has one larger and one smaller stamp, postmark, and the Prioritaire chop. All three cards: Grade: 1

Code: 34400206
Price: $4.00
Yak-52, at Museum of Aviation Technique (Belarus)
Yak-52 aircraft in flight at the Museum of Aviation Technique at Baravaya village of Minsk region. Card mailed in 2013 with stamp and one of the clearest postmarks ever. Grade: 1

Code: 34400207
Price: $4.00
Kiev USSR, Central Lenin Museum branch (Ukraine)
Although this structure is in Ukraine, we list the card under “Russia/USSR” because that’s when the old Intourist card was issued. Mailed in 2013 with two (Ukrainian) stamps and Kyiv postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34400208
Price: $3.00
Metro Museum, New Delhi (India)
This somewhat flimsy 4-7/8″ x 6-7/8″ card survived being mailed in 2013 with three different stamps and illegible postmark. It comes from the Metro Museum at New Delhi’s Patel Chowk Metro Station. Grade: 2

Code: 34400209
Price: $8.00
Elmshorn Industriemuseum (Germany)
All printed captioning on this card is in German, and some of that obscured by the Priority label (and there are two stamps, and postmark), but we see this is probably an exhibit of toys or models? Mailed in 2013. Grade: 2

Code: 34400210
Price: $3.00
Jakarta, History Museum (Maximum Card)
The Museum is in Fatahilah Square, and apart from being a Maximum Card, the card itself is otherwise unused. Grade: 1

Code: 34400211
Price: $8.00
St. Petersburg by Night, The New Hermitage (Russia)
Mailed in 2013, with stamp and large, full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34400212
Price: $2.00
Klaipeda, Maritime Museum and Dolphinarium in former castle (Lithuania)
The front of this card is fine. The writer tried to make a small, sloppy correction on the back but stamp and full postmark are there, so … Grade: 2

Code: 34400213
Price: $3.00
Museum of the Centre of Europe (Lithuania)
Mailed from Vilnius in 2013 with stamp, bilingual Pirmenybine and other small sticker. Grade: 3

Code: 34400214
Price: $1.00
Anchorage, Alaska Aviation Museum, Flying ain’t for sissies
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 34400215
Price: $3.00
The Amber Museum (Lithuania)
Specifically, this card shows: The Castle of Trakai, The Castle of Kaunas, The Amber Museum, and The Hill of Crosses near Siauliai. Mailed in 2013 with stamp and postmark and Pirmenybine label. Grade: 1

Code: 34400216
Price: $2.00
Poster Museum, Lahti (Finland)
As far as we can tell, the poster advertises a Czechoslovakian production of Richard III in 1988, and the poster is now in this Finnish museum. The 1989 card however was mailed in 2013, with stamp and faint postmark over the Priority label. Grade: 2

Code: 34400217
Price: $1.00

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