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David Bowie, The Kon-rads (Victoria & Albert Museum)
A short sequence of unused cards from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, this one of David Bowie in 1963. We’ve also put a bookmark into the scan, and if you buy any of this series of Bowie cards, we’ll give that to you as well. First-come, first-served. Grade: 1

Code: 31200154
Price: $3.00
David Bowie, Earthling album cover (Victoria & Albert Museum)
A short sequence of unused cards from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, this one of David Bowie for the album cover of Earthling. Grade: 1

Code: 31200155
Price: $3.00
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain
There’s no caption on the back of this unused card, but someone long ago identified the subject in a pencilled notation. French history is speeding past us, and this man’s life earned him a chapter. Grade: 3

Code: 31200156
Price: $4.00
Three persons
We do not know whether these folks were French, or Canadian, or … but they are all identified, in French, in handwritten notations on the reverse. Not postally used. Grade: 4

Code: 31200157
Price: $1.00
Two persons
We do not know whether these folks were French, or Canadian, or … but they are husband and wife, identified, in French, in handwritten notations on the reverse. Not postally used. Grade: 4

Code: 31200158
Price: $1.00
Family
Not used, and while we understand the danger of assumptions, we think it’s safe to say these are mom, dad, and a gloomy child. Grade: 2

Code: 31200159
Price: $1.00
Eisenhower and Montgomery
Unused card from France, extensively captioned in French and English, explaining the D-Day invasion on 6th June 1944. Grade: 1

Code: 31200160
Price: $1.00
Native American Dancer, Chief Lemee (USA)
The Chief, whose real name prosaically was Chris Brown, was a Yosemite Miwok Indian who worked for the National Park Service. Unused Colorscope card S-887. Grade: 1

Code: 31200161
Price: $1.00
Edmund G. (“Jerry”) Brown, Jr.
Unused Colorscope card SE-3234, prepared during Gov. Brown’s first term in California and later updated to reflect his second term. Grade: 1

Code: 31200162
Price: $1.00
Lasse Viren (Maximum Card) (Finland)
One of Finland’s most famous athletes on this 1994 Maximum Card mailed in 2013 with stamp, Priority, and faint postmark (on the back). Grade: 1

Code: 31200163
Price: $8.00
Ludwig van Beethoven (Maximum Card) (DPR Korea)
From 2007, an unused Maximum Card with the composer’s name in western and Korean on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 31200164
Price: $7.00
Justin Bieber (set of 30) – front cover
We want to make this easier for the search engines: Justin Bieber postcards. Yes. Just imagine, a whole set of 30 of them, unused, with QR code and Chinese writing on the back cover (see 31200165B) but the cards themselves each have some weird little English aphorisms. If you are still a Belieber, how can you resist? One more time: Justin Bieber Postcards! Outer cover slightly battered, but the cards are fine. Grade: 2

Code: 31200165A
Price: $24.00
Justin Bieber (set of 30) – back cover
See 31200165A.

Code: 31200165B
Price: $24.00
Sukarno (set of 4 + cover) (Maximum Cards) (Indonesia)
Sukarno was Indonesia’s first President. This set of four unused Maximum Cards, plus one cover card (not Maximum), was issued on 6 June 2001 to commemorate the 100th year of his birth. Two sets are available. Grades: 1

Code: 31200166
Price: $20.00
Ri In-mo (DPR Korea)
Unused, completely “domestic” card with pre-printed postage and captioned entirely in Korean. Ri In-mo (1917-2007) was in prison in South Korea for 34 years before being repatriated to DPRK in 1993. Grade: 1

Code: 31200167
Price: $4.00
100th Birthday of Deng Xiao Ping (set of two) (DPR Korea)
Set of two unused cards from 2004, captioned only in Korean with Deng’s name (등소평) and each with an impressively large photographic pre-printed stamp also showing Deng. Reminder: these cards were issued by DPR Korea, not by PR China. Grades: 1

Code: 31200168
Price: $12.00
Table-tennis (Pak Yung-sun) (DPR Korea)
Unused 2010 card with a very large, round, coloured pre-printed postage. Pak Yung-sun won several medals between 1974 and 1981 in Asian and World Table Tennis Championships. Grade: 1

Code: 31200169
Price: $6.00
Jean Campbell (Maximum Card) (Australia)
Unused maximum card issued by Australia Post on 16 January 1996. Beginning to age, but still clean. Pre-paid postage on the reverse also. “Jean Campbell, the writer in her East Melbourne Flat, 1950”. Grade: 1

Code: 31200170
Price: $6.00
Mao Zedong (sic) (set of five) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
The scan shows all or part of the five unused maximum cards in this 1993 set, various scenes of Chairman Mao’s activities. Grade: 1

Code: 31200171
Price: $23.00
Zhou Enlai (set of three) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
Set of three unused maximum cards from 1994, captioned in Korean and English (why not also in Chinese?) Grade: 1

Code: 31200172
Price: $16.00
The Beatles
Unused card of a Harry Hammond photo in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Grade: 1

Code: 31200173
Price: $3.00
Jim and Tammy Bakker interviewing Gary Greenwald and Rosie Grier
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 31200175
Price: $1.00
Calamity Jane, and Wild Bill Hickok
Unused, aging Curteichcolor card 6C-K2956 of these two famous Old West characters. Grade: 2

Code: 31200176K
Price: $1.00
Timo Makinen (Maximum Card) (Finland)
According to this unused maximum card No. 26, issued on 10th May 1995, Timo Makinen was known as “Mr. Flying Finn” in rally driving and the first Finn to win the Monte Carlo Rally. Grade: 1

Code: 31200177
Price: $6.00
Tommi Ahvala (Maximum Card) (Finland)
According to this unused maximum card No. 28, issued on 10th May 1995, Tommi Ahvala was Trial World Champion in 1992. Grade: 1

Code: 31200178
Price: $6.00
Kristina Šmigun (Maximum Card) (Estonia)
Unused maximum card issued in 2006 of Kristina Šmigun-Vähi (born 23 February 1977 in Tartu), a former and so far most successful Estonian female cross-country skier. It’s official card No. 51. Grade: 1

Code: 31200179
Price: $5.00
Andrus Veerpalu (Maximum Card) (Estonia)
Unused maximum card No. 52 from 30th March 2006. Veerpalu himself was later the subject of some controversy, for which any search engine tells you what you need to know. Grade: 1

Code: 31200180
Price: $5.00
Hermann Hesse
Mailed from Germany in 2013, with three different stamps and partial postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 31200181
Price: $1.00
Bob Dole (USA)
Just so you know: it wasn’t made to be a postcard (though is the right size, more or less), and that’s not a personal autograph. Otherwise unused. From the American Conservative Union. Grade: 1

Code: 31200182
Price: $1.00
Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana)
This postcard was issued by the Ghanaian government in Accra in 1958 “Commemorating Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah’s Visit to U.S.A. and Canada”. There’s a Gold Coast stamp, with Ghana Independence overprint; and clear postmark. No address, so the card was not mailed. A small flying insect got pressed into the bottom reverse–adds character. Grade: 3

Code: 31200183
Price: $9.00
China’s Madame Chiang
Beginning a short series of magazine-cover-type unused postcards, produced in Taiwan. LIFE Magazine was a popular American weekly. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31200184
Price: $2.00
Chiang Kai-Shek
Continuing a short series of magazine-cover-type unused postcards, produced in Taiwan. TIME Magazine, as of now at least, is still a popular American weekly. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31200185
Price: $2.00
Premier of China, Chiang Kai-Shek
Continuing a short series of magazine-cover-type unused postcards, produced in Taiwan. TIME Magazine, as of now at least, is still a popular American weekly. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31200186
Price: $2.00
General Chiang
Completing a short series of magazine-cover-type unused postcards, produced in Taiwan. TIME Magazine, as of now at least, is still a popular American weekly. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31200187
Price: $2.00
Hong Kong Pop Singers (set of five)
Five cards, five singers: Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Danny Chan, Roman Tam, Wong Ka Kui — all now deceased, and commemorated on this “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 31” from 2005, with matching postage pre-printed on the reverses. We only can show one card because of the way they were originally bound together, but if you want more information, please ask. Grade: 1

Code: 31200188
Price: $11.00
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 1881-1938 (Turkey)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31200189
Price: $2.00
Standing woman
Sepia-toned real-photo card, no identification of the person but embossed by the Brooklyn (NY) photographer. There’s a Christmas greeting in Norwegian written on the back … Grade: 4

Code: 31200194
Price: $1.00
Three men and a table
No identification on this unused real-photo card. Grade: 1

Code: 31200195
Price: $1.00
Naomi Uemura, Narsarsuaq Airport, August 1978 (Greenland)
For the full story of this famous Japanese adventurer, check your search engine. Unused card G475 from Post Greenland. Grade: 1

Code: 31200197
Price: $2.00
70th birthday of HM the Queen Margrethe II (Greenland)
Unused card G446 from Post Greenland. The photo would then have been taken in roughly 2010. Grade: 1

Code: 31200198
Price: $4.00

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