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State Mosque, Penang (Malaysia)
The card was mailed and is all in one piece but is not in good condition, especially on reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 35000046
Price: $2.50
Ubudiah Mosque (Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia)
Three of these unused cards are available, 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ and nicely representing a mosque far from Malaysia’s capital city. Grades: 1

Code: 35000047
Price: $3.00
Sultan Salahuddin Mosque, Shah Alam (Malaysia)
Unused Yacine card 18188, 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″. The name of its location is misspelled as “Shas Alam” in the caption on reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 35000048
Price: $3.00
City Mosque (Ipoh, Malaysia)
Altogether three cards are available. Two were mailed in 1986: one suffers from an abundance of postmark ink on each side. The stamp is intact and the postmark is largely legible but card is heavily smudged (Grade: 4, $1.50); the other has the stamp and readable postmark (Grade: 2, $3). And one more card was written for mailing but never stamped (Grade: 4, $1.50).

Code: 35000049
Price: $3.00
Masjid Sultan Ahmad Shah, Kuantan (Malaysia)
Two cards are available, mailed four years apart. The 1986 one is Grade: 1 ($3.50). The 1990 one has a full postmark but also a faint crease running vertically through the card (Grade: 4, $2).

Code: 35000050
Price: $3.50
Zahir Mosque (Alor Star, Malaysia)

Two of these are available, both mailed in 1991 and all with at least one stamp. One has illegible postmark (Grade: 3, $4), and one has no postmark (Grade: 3, $4).

Code: 35000051
Price: $4.00
Jame Mosque (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Two mailed cards are available. One was mailed in 1991 and has stamp and partly legible postmark. Only real problem is that it has many white-out corrections to the writing (Grade: 4, $3). The other doesn’t have a legible postmark but also has (less) correctional fluid (Grade: 3, $4).

Code: 35000052
Price: $4.00
Thean Hou Temple (Malaysia)
A 5″ x 7″ card, mailed in 1991, with Melaka stamp and partial postmark. Latent creasing. Grade: 3

Code: 35000053
Price: $4.50
Multiple views (Malacca, Malaysia)
Mailed from Kedah in 1986, with stamp and mostly readable postmark. Card is a little bit crumpled around the edges only. Grade: 3

Code: 35000054
Price: $5.00
Jame Mosque (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Each of the two cards available is in the same condition: mailed in 1986, stamp intact, postmark almost but not quite legible. Grades: 2

Code: 35000055
Price: $5.00
Mosque, Labuan (Malaysia)
Card was mailed in 1997. The stamp is there and the postmark is mostly legible. Grade: 1

Code: 35000056
Price: $4.00
Goddess of Mercy Temple, Penang (Malaysia)
Two cards are available. One was mailed in 1991, with intact Pulau Pinang stamp and partly legible postmark. Some edge and corner abrasions (Grade: 3, $4). The other was mailed in 1990 with a commemorative stamp and nearly full postmark, and orange postal bar code on bottom reverse (Grade: 2, $3.50).

Code: 35000057
Price: $4.00
Peninsular mosques (A) (Malaysia)
Of the two cards available, one was mailed in Perak in 1991, and has stamp and full postmark (Grade: 1, $5) while the other has a commemorative stamp and partial postmark (Grade: 3, $4).

Code: 35000059
Price: $5.00
Peninsular mosques (B) (Malaysia)
Card mailed in 1991 is in near-perfect condition (Grade: 1)

Code: 35000060
Price: $5.00
Mosques (Malaysia)
Card mailed in 1991, and in near-perfect condition with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 35000061
Price: $5.00
Zahir Mosque (Alor Setar, Malaysia)

Card mailed from Kedah in 1990, and stamp is OK but postmark is only partly legible and there is a small stain in message area of reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 35000062
Price: $3.50
Night view of Jame Mosque (Kuala Lumpur)
Mailed in 1990 with Johor stamp, but illegible postmark. Some pencilled marking of original price on reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 35000063
Price: $3.50
Sultan Salahuddin Mosque, Shah Alam (Malaysia)
Both of the two cards available are excellent on the front, and have one stamp and almost-legible postmarks on reverse. Grades: 2

Code: 35000064
Price: $4.00
Christ Church, Malacca (Malaysia)
Someone wrote this card for mailing but then put it in an envelope. Malacca changes but this scene happily does not. Grade: 4

Code: 35000065
Price: $2.50
Cheng Hoon Teng Temple (Malacca, Malaysia)
Card doesn’t say this is in Malacca, but we know it is–don’t we? Three cards are available. The best has commemorative stamp and full postmark (Grade: 1, $4.50). The next is good on front but back has only a partial postmark (Grade: 2, $4). The last has a bit of corner torn off the stamp–not the card itself (Grade: 3, $3.50).

Code: 35000066
Price: $4.50
Ubudiah Mosque (Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia)
Two early 90s cards are available, each with stamp and legible postmark. One is Grade 1 ($4) and the other, due to a bit of front ink smudge, is Grade 2 ($3.50).

Code: 35000067
Price: $4.00
Masjid Jame (Kuala Lumpur)
Two 1991 cards are available, each with stamp and legible postmark. Each has a small bit of postmark smudging on front. One has a commemorative stamp but also the upper right front corner is peeling back. Grades: 3

Code: 35000069
Price: $3.50
Balai Islam (Alor Star, Malaysia)
Card mailed in 1996 but photo certainly much earlier, judging from the cars. Commemorative stamp, partial postmark, OK. Grade: 2

Code: 35000070
Price: $4.50
St. Paul’s Church, Malacca (Malaysia)
Two cards are available, each mailed in 1991. The better one has Melaka stamp and nearly full postmark, latent creasing but not really too visible (Grade: 2, $3.50). The other is a bit more creased and with postmark smudging on front (Grade: 4, $2).

Code: 35000071
Price: $3.50
State Mosque, Penang (Malaysia)
This Great Wall card G.W. 323 was mailed in 1991 with a Kedah stamp but indistinct postmark. The State Mosque (Masjid Negeri) is located at the junction of Air Itam Road and Green Lane, and opened in 1980. Grade: 2

Code: 35000072
Price: $3.00
Jame Mosque (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Roughly 1970s view of this Jame Mosque in the centre of K. Lumpur. Unused card, still as-new. Grade: 1

Code: 35000073
Price: $4.50
Christ Church, Malacca (Malaysia)
Oversized (5″ x 7″) card mailed in 1991 with Melaka stamp and partly legible postmark. This church would never get lost in a snowstorm, that’s for sure. Grade: 2

Code: 35000074
Price: $5.00
Sultan Salahuddin Mosque, Shah Alam (Malaysia)
Three of these 5″ x 7″ cards are available. Two have a stamp and partial postmark. Clean fronts. (Grades: 2, $5) and the third has some creasing at corners but a full postmark (Grade: 3, $4).

Code: 35000075
Price: $5.00

Pagodas (Bagan, Myanmar)

Politics aside, what a spectacular place this is. Card was mailed in the late 1990s and has a reasonably full postmark but no stamp, which is how things were done at the post office at that time. The front has some abrasion. Grade: 3

Code: 35000080

Price: $6.50

Wat Poh (Bangkok)

This unused card is fading, and at one time was in an album that left minor indentations but no real marks. Minor creasing in upper right corner. Reverse has mellowed but is clean, and this is a nice temple photo. Grade: 3

Code: 35000082

Price: $18.00

Chinese Cave Temple, marble quarry, Ipoh (Malaysia)
Nice companion card for 20316062, as this real photo shot was taken about 50 years earlier. Unused card, aged but in great condition though it has a little bit of Japanese calligraphy pencilled on reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 35000083
Price: $14.00
Hindu Temple, South Bridge Road (Singapore)
Unused card 54 issued by Max H. Hilckes. It’s a bit aged and smudged on front and back, but no writing or other significant damage. Grade: 3

Code: 35000084
Price: $14.00
Malay mosque (Singapore)
Real photo card, unused, with almost invisible album indents across front corners but some marks are there on reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 35000085
Price: $9.50
St. Andrews Cathedral (Singapore)
Early 20th cent. Wilson & Co. card, unused, aging but otherwise perfect. Grade: 1

Code: 35000086
Price: $14.00
Interior of Chetty Temple (Singapore)
Sepia card with quite faded descriptive caption on bottom front. Card was mailed in 1922. One stamp was removed; one remains intact, plus half the postmark (with the date). Message is in Japanese. Grade: 3

Code: 35000087
Price: $18.00
Sri Mariamman Temple (Singapore)
This is the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore, though not the oldest postcard. Mailed in 1989, it has two different stamps and partial postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 35000088
Price: $5.00
Gate Guardians of Wat Poh (Bangkok)
Very nice unused old B&W card, completely undamaged front and back, and aging gracefully. Grade: 2

Code: 35000090
Price: $19.00

Wat Ratchanatda (Bangkok)

Two of these are available. One (Grade: 3, $5) has minor edge abrasion, mailed in 2001. It has three stamps on reverse but one has a bit of corner missing. Another (Grade: 5, $3) was mailed in 2000 and has five nice stamps but also a jumbo black bar code on bottom reverse and a postal tape on bottom front. By the way, the market area on the temple grounds is unusually interesting.

Code: 35000091

Price: $5.00

Domaine de Marie church (Dalat, Vietnam)
Sometimes the postmarks say “Saigon” and sometimes they say “Ho Chi Minh City,” which is about like it is in conversation, too. This card was mailed in 1996, two stamps and Ho Chi Minh postmark, along with prominent bar code on reverse and nearly invisible one on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 35000093
Price: $9.00
Kyoto, Kiyomizu Temple (Japan)
“A panoramic view of the city can be had” from the wooden platform on a cliff bearing the temple featured on this very old, unused postcard, with Japanese and longer English captions. Grade: 1

Code: 35000093T
Price: $4.00

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Two of these are available, both mailed in 1991 and all with at least one stamp. One has illegible postmark (Grade: 3, $4), and one has no postmark (Grade: 3, $4).

Card mailed from Kedah in 1990, and stamp is OK but postmark is only partly legible and there is a small stain in message area of reverse. Grade: 3