Unused card 20X-C-19009 with serrated edges of this “Favorite spot of Hawaiian royalty in the 1800’s when it was the whaling capital of the world.”  However this card will need to be your memory, as the view was destroyed in the August 2023 fires.  Grade: 1

We were idly curious why Queen Marie had an entire gallery dedicated to her at this (arguably) obscure location, so we went to Wikipedia.  Describing the entire collection as “eclectic,” Wikipedia explains everything, including this:  “During her 1926 visit for the museum’s dedication, Queen Marie of Romania gave Maryhill more than 100 objects. These included personal items, Romanian folk objects, Russian icons and diverse textiles. That same year, Queen Marie’s oldest daughter Elisabetha, the former Queen Consort of Greece, gave the museum a collection of small Tanagra figurines and a number of ancient Cypriot amphorae. A year earlier, the museum had received its very first donation—three silver filigree objects—from Queen Marie’s second daughter, Marie, Queen Consort of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.”  So now you know WHAT, we just don’t know WHY.  Unused card.  Grade: 3

It rained heavily throughout all the ceremonies.  This was during the handover of colonial Hong Kong to China in 1997.  Unused card.  Grade: 1

Unused B&W card No. 26 from H.A. Mirza & Sons (Delhi).  Grade: 2

Mailed in 1990 with stamp and partial postmark.  Grade: 2

Mailed in 1986 with stamp and partial postmark.  Grade: 2

Apart from being an attractive card in its own right, it has five stamps (three different commemoratives) and full postmarks from being mailed in 2000. There is a postal barcode imprint on bottom reverse, and a little ink smudging on the front. Grade: 3

The cost of this card is not so much driven by the photo, which is nice enough, but by the extraordinary stamp of a barge commemorating the King’s Golden Jubilee. The card was mailed in 1997, and has that stamp (which is more than 4-3/4″ long), a full postmark, and the retailer’s original card price on the reverse (Grade: 2, $8).  Another mailed card is also available, from 1993, with three less elaborate stamps (Grade: 2, $6).  (We must verify availability)

This unused item is the correct size and shape to be a postcard, and was bought along with other postcards, but has no identifying marks on the reverse other than what looks like the tiny icon of a dragon’s head.  However we recognise the subject of the card to be the immediate family of Rama IX, Thailand’s king at the time, and this looks to be many years ago.  Grade: 1

Continuing a series of unused Thai royal family postcards.  They do not have captions:  you are expected to know.  It is not true that the King never smiled.  Grade: 1

Continuing a series of unused Thai royal family postcards.  They do not have captions.   Three of these cards are available.  Grades: 1

Continuing the series of unused Thai royal family postcards.  They do not have captions.  Grade: 1

Continuing the series of uncaptioned postcards of the Thai royal family.  Mom Sangwan, later HRH Princess Srinagarindra, the Princess Mother, was educated at Harvard University and had a profound influence on the sphere of the royal family.  Unused card.  Grade: 1

This set has five maximum cards, of which four appear in the scan.  (Maximum Cards have stamp and postmark on the front of the card.)  The full English caption (there’s also Thai) says:  50th Anniversary Celebrations of His Majesty’s Accession to the Throne (2nd Series).  Issued in June 1996 (Thai 2539) in honour of King Bhumibol.  There is some postmark ink transfer on the reverse of each card as they were stacked during processing.  We don’t consider this to be a defect.  Grade: 1

The crowning glory (pun intended, disrespect not intended) of our various stock of 50th Anniversary unused maximum cards of King Bhumibol’s accession to the throne.  This is the 4th series, issued in June 1996 (Thai 2539), and the five cards have minor postmark ink transfer on the back from having been stacked during processing.  We do not consider this to be a defect.  Though you can’t see it well in the scan, the card with the airplane has a holographic image of the King on the stamp.  Four of the five cards appear in the scan.  Grade: 1

Unused 1970s card. Front is in terrific condition; reverse has mottled (foxed) and aged a bit.  Grade: 2

Unused.  Grade: 1

Unused Arba card 378, with a vertical smudge in the message area.  Grade: 2

Mailed in 2012 with stamp and Praha postmark.  Grade: 1