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Fraser’s Restaurant, Perth (Australia)
On this 4-7/8″ x 6-7/8″ unused card, views of the city from King’s Park, Fraser’s Restaurant in King’s Park, and a night view. Grade: 1
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Sichuan Lab (Hong Kong)
Larger (6″ x 8-1/4″) ad card, fully printed on both sides and using Hongkong Post’s bilingual Circular Service imprint, mailed to local Wanchai residents in 2019 to introduce the new restaurant. Grade: 1
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Art Cafe Neon, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Manuc’s Inn, Bucharest (Romania)
We’re giving you this long-ago Wikipedia entry because we think it’s interesting: “Manuc’s Inn was, until it was shut for restoration and refurbishment, the oldest operating hotel building in Bucharest … it also housed a popular restaurant, several bars, a coffee-house, several stores and an extensive bar. Its massive, multiply balconied courtyard hosted many performances and fairs and was a popular place for Romanian television crews to shoot folkloric performances. The hotel and restaurant were closed down in 2007 for refurbishment; shops and a bar known both as Cafeaneaua Bucurestilor de Altadata (“Bucharest of Yesteryear” Cafe) and as Festival 39 remained open (though the bar closed in February 2010). There appear to be disagreements between the city government and the owners about the legality of certain modernizations being undertaken.” And now? Looks like they have overcome all that, and are open again. The card was not postally used but has a message and address filling the reverse. Grade: 4
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Sichuan Lab (Hong Kong)
This 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ restaurant ad card was mailed to local residents in 2019 using Hongkong Post’s bilingual English/Chinese-language Circular postage imprint. Fully printed on both sides, the reverse shows cost and what your dinner could look like. Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut (Hong Kong)
The card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″, is fully printed on both sides, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. You will have a great idea how Pizza Hut in Hong Kong is different from Pizza Hut where you live! Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut (Hong Kong)
The ad card measures 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″, is fully printed on both sides, and was mailed to Hong Kong residents using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut Roulette Cheesy (Hong Kong)
More unusual concoctions from Pizza Hut on this 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ card, fully printed on both sides, and mailed in 2020 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Grade: 1
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Cafe du Monde, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA)
Unused card from the French Market. Grade: 1
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Movie Scenic Locations in Hong Kong (set of four)
Our scan shows you the front of one card and the back of another, from the set of four Hong Kong Post “Postage Prepaid Picture Card Series No. 68”. That’s the Jumbo floating restaurant, which we had hoped would reopen eventually but is now gone. The other three cards show Two International Finance Centre, the “Monster Building” (in a residential area), and Kau U Fong, what used to be an obscure residential lane. Each of these locations featured in a local or international film during the past few years; and, no, we have no idea why Santa Claus is prominent on each card apart from their having been issued in December 2021. Three sets are available. The cards are unused, but two sets have special postmarks while one set has none. Each set: Grade: 1
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Acadia Restaurant, St. Leonard (NB, Canada)
“Rowing on a Quiet Pond,” a generic Dexter Color Canada card onto which the restaurant attached its name. Unused, serrated edges, aging. Grade: 1
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Duetto (Hong Kong)
Duetto in Wanchai may or may not open again, who knows, but back in 2011 when this card was mailed with Hongkong Post’s English-language Circular Service imprint, the Italian/Indian menu on the other side looked alluring enough. Grade: 1
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McDonald’s Germany
We like this ad card so much that we’re not even listing it as an “ad card”. Actually it’s one of our favourite cards ever, for creativity. A shame the long caption is entirely in German … but the card was mailed from there in 2021 using a brilliant postage meter label (complete with QR code) and extra rubber-stamped “chop”. You will have figured out that the tooth marks represent an area of the card that isn’t there. Only because of that rubber stamp, Grade: 2,
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Orvieto, Ristorante Maurizio al Duomo (Italy)
As unused restaurant postcards go, can you really do better? Real-photo B&W card captioned in five languages. And guess what? It’s still there. Grade: 1
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Belcrep, New York City
We’re not certain what’s at that address now, but it’s not likely to be this Belgian Fine Food Restaurant. Grade: 1
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Trinkaus Manor, Oriskany (New York, USA)
This restaurant was famous locally until it burned down in 1992. Google is replete with stories and context surrounding the seasonal decorations and other elements of Trinkaus fame. The unused postcard has a small plain white sticker near the upper reverse edge — maybe someone’s earlier price was there — but there’s not a lot more we can say. Grade: 3
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Annapolis, George Phillips’ Harbour House (Maryland, USA)
The restaurant is gone now, or it was as of 2015 … though Google implies that nothing about this eatery is ever really finished. Let us know? Unused card. Grade: 1
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Pizza Hut 2022 (Hong Kong)
Through these ad cards, you can see how Pizza Hut’s offerings are evolving over the years. The 1960’s me would not recognise this, anyway. The postcard is 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ and was mailed using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language Circular Service imprint. Grade: 1
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Jumbo Restaurant (Aberdeen, Hong Kong)
Alas, poor Jumbo, who met her end in 2022 under circumstances even Agatha Christie would admire. Unused Tourists Cards (5-1/2″ x 7″) #038, and we have two available. Grades: 1
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Aberdeen Harbour (Hong Kong)
The caption on this unused old card (“Scenery of Aberdeen Harbour, the fishing junks sailing, with the floating restaurant in the distant view”) reveals that the card’s producers were determined to include all possible icons. Aberdeen is still there, but … Grade: 1
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Beautiful Hong Kong
The multiple views are identified in the caption on this unused, mid-century card. Grade: 1
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Sea Palace (Hong Kong)
Were you to Google Sea Palace, you would (as we did) be confounded by complicated and incomplete information about it and other floating restaurants that passed through Hong Kong for varying lengths of time. What we show you here, condensed from Wikipedia, demonstrates what confronts you: “In 1991, Sea Palace was renamed “Jumbo Palace”. (Our note: nothing about it pre-1991 under that name.) Shortly after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, it was sold for US$800 million and towed to Manila Bay and rebranded as “Jumbo Kingdom Manila”, with much of the original ancient Chinese imperial palace style renovation retained. It closed in 2008 and was donated to the government of Shantung province in 2011, then towed to Tsingtao to be part of a seaside park. It was intended to undergo reconstruction and reopen in May 2014 catering primarily to wedding events, but renovations were still incomplete as of 2021. Local residents have tried to tour the closed boat on their own, despite the rusting hull and a safety perimeter, but the operator has not been able to reopen the restaurant.” There’s more, but you get the idea. Unused card from the mid-20th century has two expansive captions and would be a gem for you to own. Grade: 1
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Lake Delton, Ishnala Supper Club (Wisconsin, USA)
Another postcard, unused, that coyly doesn’t want you to know exactly where the property is, just that it’s near Wisconsin Dells (isn’t everything in Wisconsin?) and on Mirror Lake. The caption highlights the club’s location on a White Sand Beach but does not report that online reviews for the place right now are excellent. We’d go, if we could. Grade: 1
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Guayaquil, Casa Julian Restaurant (Ecuador)
An unused ad card whose message area is filled with the story of the restaurant at Hotel del Parque. Grade: 1
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Duckee Chinese Gastrobar & Restaurant (Hong Kong)
An ad card measuring 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ and mailed to local residents in 2023 using Hongkong Post’s Chinese-language postal imprint. Grade: 1
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Culin Art (Hong Kong)
An ad card measuring 6″ x 8-1/4″ and mailed to local residents in 2023 with Hongkong Post’s bilingual Chinese/English postal imprint. Grade: 1
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Dartmoor, Dartmeet, Badgers Holt (England)
The property’s own website says: “Badgers Holt is a private and exclusive hire Wedding Venue and Restaurant nestled in the heart of Dartmoor on the banks on the river dart.” How could we add to that? This is a normal postcard, though, not an ad card. Mailed in 1973, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Walt Disney World, Crystal Palace Restaurant (Florida, USA)
Still there, still expensive. Unused postcard, Grade: 1
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Paris, Le Moulin Rouge
Everything and anything that could be written about this iconic landmark has already appeared. Nous vous présentons donc: une carte postale! Unused. Grade: 1