Orchids – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 40 postcards

Bali, orchid
Orchids grow abundantly in Indonesia, of all sizes, shapes, and colours. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 34500001
Price: $2.00
Orchid garden (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
A card mailed in 1991 with Selangor stamp and partly legible postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 34500002
Price: $4.00
Orchid garden (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Three mailed cards are available from the early 1990s: One with Selangor stamp and partly legible postmark (Grade: 2, $4); one where the front of card is OK but the stamp of this mailed card has one corner ripped off, and partial postmark did not reach the stamp in any event (Grade: 4, $2.50); and one with postal creasing, full stamp, and partial postmark (Grade: 2, $3).

Code: 34500003
Price: $2.50
Pot. Bagdad’s Magic (Malaysia)
Card mailed from Malaysia in 1991, with Melaka stamp and nearly full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34500004
Price: $4.50
Laeliocattleya Sakuna (Malaysia)
Card mailed in 1991 in Malaysia, has Kelantan stamp and not quite legible postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 34500005
Price: $4.00
Dendrobium Ho King (Malaysia)
Mailed in 1991 with a Sabah stamp but illegible postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 34500006
Price: $3.00
Thailand, by Thai Airways
Two unused cards are available, probably from the 1990s and issued by Thai Airways. Grades: 1

Code: 34500007
Price: $3.00
Patterson Orchids
This unused and heavily aged card (dated 1971) comes from Patterson Orchids, a company in Puerto Rico, but unfortunately does not identify the species of orchid. Grade: 3

Code: 34500008
Price: $1.00
Purple Orchid (Malaysia)
Unused 5″ x 7″ card with full details about artist Lazim on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 34500009
Price: $4.00
Orchid, 1987 (R. Mapplethorpe)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 34500010
Price: $3.00
Jyväskylä, Viherlandia (Finland)
Mailed in 2013 with obscured postmark and stamp and blue Priority label. Grade: 2

Code: 34500011
Price: $3.00
Thai Royal Orchid Service
This is nice enough as a postcard, but it was mailed in 2013 with five large and superb examples of Thai stamps, along with multiple postmarks and Airmail label. If you have any doubt how good this is, ask for a scan of the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 34500012
Price: $6.00
Vanda hybrida (DPR Korea)
No captions at all on this unused 2011 card. We take our clue from the pre-printed postage, whose orchid seems to be about the same as the one on the front; and the scientific name Vanda hybrida appears in that postage. Grade: 1

Code: 34500013
Price: $4.00
Orchid and Raku
Unused Nouvelles Images card PHC 2352. Grade: 1

Code: 34500014
Price: $1.00
Orchids (set of five) (DPR Korea)
Unused set of five cards from 2001. Here’s what you might want to know: each card has pre-printed, coloured postage on the reverse, of an orchid but not necessarily the same orchid. Each of those pre-printed stamps also shows one or another pollinating insect in one corner, and then in Korean and western letters you can see the scientific names. The main captions are in Korean only. Grades: 1

Code: 34500015
Price: $15.00
Orchids (DPR Korea)
Oops! This unused card with its pre-printed postage of Epidendrum radiatum (also an orchid, but from Central America), like many other cards has a bilingual caption on the back, in Korean and English. HOWEVER–and this is one reason why we still enjoy doing this, for the surprises–when we put the Korean (란과 식물) caption in for translation, it came back as “What is the plant?” We guess, if the orchids they are showing come from Central America, they have a good reason for not knowing! Grade: 1

Code: 34500016
Price: $8.00
Latvia
The orchids on this uncaptioned card may or may not be Latvian but the card was mailed from there in 2014 with three stamps and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 34500017
Price: $0.50
Orchids (group of three) (DPR Korea)
All three cards are unused and all have pre-printed postage, but they are not a unified set. We just offer them as a group. But, once again, the cards’ designers had a small problem. The one you see on the lower left has a caption, only in Korean: 란과 식물. That means: What is the plant? (Comic relief for us.) Grades: 1

Code: 34500018
Price: $12.00
DPR Korea (set of three) (Maximum Cards)
Set of three unused maximum cards from 2000. Clearly the makers of the various orchid series were having problems, or someone is. (Maybe us.) Why do we say this? The cards are captioned in the reverse, in Korean (무 리 꽃 란) and also with scientific names: Dendrobium aggregatum, Cattleya Hawaiian Wedding Song cv. Virgin, Brassolaeliocattleya Greenwich cv. Elmhurst. Here are the problems: once again, the scientific names on the stamps do not match the names on the card; and the Korean language you see gets translated as “Lee is no flower.” We didn’t try the other two cards. Grade: 1

Code: 34500019
Price: $16.50
São José dos Campos – SP – multiple (Brazil)
All five views (including Orquidea) are identified in the Portuguese caption on the reverse. Eugenio de Melo is a district in the city. The card was mailed in 2011, with stamp and two large but indistinct postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 34500020
Price: $4.00
Brapex V – Laelia purpurata (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Unused, aging maximum card issued in 1982 by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos with serial number 015362. There’s postmark ink smudging on the back (minor), and the front unusually has two separate marks — one of them commemorating the exhibition. Considering everything, we still assign: Grade: 1

Code: 34500021
Price: $4.00
Brapex V – Cleistes revoluta (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Unused, aging maximum card issued in 1982 by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos with serial number 016942. Noticeable age mottling on the reverse. The front unusually has two separate marks — one of them commemorating the exhibition. Grade: 2

Code: 34500022
Price: $3.00
Rio de Janeiro, Botanical Garden, Orchidarium
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 34500024
Price: $2.00
Cooktown, Queensland, multiple views (Australia)
The four views include Grassy Hill Lighthouse, Black Mountain, Top Pub, and Cooktown Orchids. Unised card. Grade: 1

Code: 34500025
Price: $2.00
Orchids Market Jaro, Iloilo (Philippines)
Jaro is one of the seven districts of Iloilo City on the island of Panay in the Western Visayas region. Unused, somewhat aging card with very minor corner bumping on lower left. Vertical layout on the reverse as well. Grade: 2

Code: 34500026
Price: $3.00
Multiple (Papua New Guinea)
If ever a country could have orchids, it would be PNG. And so they do, in countless varieties. We have two of these cards, official from Post PNG. One is unused (Grade: 1, $4) and the other was mailed with stamp and large postmark in 2017 (Grade: 1, $9).

Code: 34500028
Price: $4.00
Yellow (Papua New Guinea)
Official card, unused, issued by Post PNG. Grade: 1

Code: 34500029
Price: $4.00
Purple (Papua New Guinea)
Official card, unused, issued by Post PNG. Grade: 1

Code: 34500030
Price: $4.00
Pink orchid cluster (Papua New Guinea)
Official card, unused, issued by Post PNG. Grade: 1

Code: 34500031
Price: $4.00
Vanda Miss Joaquim (Singapore)
Unused S W Singapore card S 8841. This became the national flower in 1981, with the postcard soon after. Grade: 1

Code: 34500032
Price: $2.00
Greetings from Singapore
Unused card showing “beautiful and exotic orchid hybrids” and The Merlion, Singapore’s national symbol. Grade: 1

Code: 34500033
Price: $2.00
Sabah (East Malaysia)
Unused but aging card SHC/PC/38 (5″ x 7″) from Sabah Handicraft Centre showing Phalaenopsis amabilis (Moth orchid), Rafflesia pricei, Nepenthes villosa, and Phalaenopsis violacea (Normah orchid). We hope that helps both you and Google. Grade: 2

Code: 34500034
Price: $3.00
Borneo Flora
Unused, aging Sabah Handicraft Centre card SHC/PC/33 (5″ x 7″) showing Nepenthes kinabaluensis, Rhododendron javanicum, Paphiopedilum rothchildianum. Grade: 1

Code: 34500035
Price: $4.00
Orchid Jungle, Homestead (Florida, USA)
“One of the rarest blooms in the orchid world” on this unused, older orchid postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 34500036
Price: $1.00
Orchid Jungle, Homestead (Florida, USA)
Now Fennell’s Orchid Jungle. That name change would post-date this unused 1955 card. Grade: 1

Code: 34500037
Price: $1.00
San Diego Zoo (California)
Mailed in 1996, with 20-cent stamp and San Diego postmark and a bit of a sad message. By the way, the orchids shown are Pansy Orchid (Miltonia – Red Gable) and Paphiopedilum insigne sandarae. Grade: 2, $1.00

Code: 34500038
Price: $1.00
Four orchids
Unused card showing Vampire orchid, vanilla, Masdevallia stumpflei, and Cattleya aclandiae. Grade: 1

Code: 34500039
Price: $1.00
Mindanao, Walling-Walling Orchids (Philippines)
Unused, older Mike Roberts card C355. Showing its age, but clean. By the way, there may be an alternate spelling, since Wikipedia shows: “Vanda sanderiana is … commonly called Waling-waling in the Philippines and is also called Sander’s Vanda after Henry Frederick Conrad Sander, a noted orchidologist. The orchid is considered to be the ‘Queen of Philippine flowers’ and is worshiped as a diwata by the indigenous Bagobo people.” Grade: 1

Code: 34500040
Price: $2.00
Sabah Orchid (Malaysia)
Unused 5×7 card from a series by Ramsay Ong. Grade: 1

Code: 34500041
Price: $2.00
Orchids to You!
An ancient, unused, generic card with “Greetings from Hayward, Wisconsin” printed on the back. While Wisconsin is not generally known for its orchids, we like the card anyway, as orchid postcards go. Grade: 1

Code: 34500042
Price: $3.00

Total: 40 postcards