Surfing – Global Postcard Sales

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Body surfing at its best (California)

Semi-vintage James Blank card (1970s?) of the type that foreign governments might or might not let slip through the system then if you mailed it. Unmailed card, aging significantly on reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 35300001

Price: $3.00

California
Card mailed in 1984, has stamp and postmark intact. Postal creasing around the edges and corners. Grade: 3

Code: 35300002
Price: $2.00
Keep your tips up (Australia)
No telling when this card was made, except it probably wasn’t the early 1900s. Never mailed, it has a message written on the reverse but no stamp or address. A bit of aging, and serrated edges. Grade: 4

Code: 35300003
Price: $3.00
Wind surfing, Phuket (Thailand)
Three unused cards are available, issued by Thai Airways. Grades: 1

Code: 35300004
Price: $4.00
Office Depot (Japan)
Artsy graphic on a card mailed from Japan in the late 1990s with two stamps and psrtly legible postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 35300005
Price: $2.00
Bali, Kuta Beach
Unused contemporary card. Grade: 1

Code: 35300006
Price: $2.00
Quiksilver Surf School (Bali)
Unused, contemporary ad card. Two pieces are available. The reverse is fully pre-printed so these can’t be sent as normal postcards. Grades: 1

Code: 35300007
Price: $2.00
Girls Go Surfing Day (Bali)
Unused, contemporary ad card for a specific event. Grade: 1

Code: 35300008
Price: $3.00
Rip Curl Podcast (Bali)
Two of these unused cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 35300009
Price: $3.00
Harris Resort, Kuta, Bali
This is primarily an advertising card, more or less fully pre-printed on the reverse so it would be difficult but not impossible to mail as a postcard. The outline of the top half of this foot has been (intentionally) cut, so that part of the card can pop out but not detach. Two of these (unused) cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 35300010
Price: $3.00
Bali, Surfing at Padang-Padang Beach
Unused 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 35300011
Price: $4.00
Sydney, City to Surf
We could probably fit this card into a great many topical categories but we will restrict it to three, and welcome you to hunt for which ones they might be. Mailed in 1990 with a stamp and full postmark, the card explains that “People from all over the world participate in the Sydney fun race, which takes place every year in August.” Still going strong. There’s some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 35300012
Price: $5.00
Bali, Padang – padang beach (Indonesia)
As the caption says, “one of the best place for surfing”. Just don’t surf right into those rocks. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 35300013
Price: $3.00
Punk Shark, Greetings from California
Mailed in 2012 with $1.05 stamp, faint postmark, and a crease down the middle. Grade: 4

Code: 35300014
Price: $0.50
The Reef, Australian Chamber Orchestra (Hong Kong)
For the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2013. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 35300015
Price: $1.00
Surf (Portugal)
The caption on the reverse reads “SURF”. Made in, and mailed from, Portugal in 2012 with stamp, partial postmark, and blue “Aviao” Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 35300016
Price: $2.00
Prevelly Park, W.A. (Australia)
Mailed in 2012, this card has two different stamps, partial postmark, and one small extra sticker. Grade: 3

Code: 35300017
Price: $3.00
Surfing in Hawaii – Big Surf
Unused, aging card. Grade: 2

Code: 35300018
Price: $2.00
The Reef (Hong Kong)
Unused ad card from the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2013. Grade: 1

Code: 35300019
Price: $1.00
Six girls
Sorry about the quality of the scan–we can’t get it to turn out any better than this. The card is unused, made in China, and does not actually have all those lines in the background. Grade: 1

Code: 35300020
Price: $3.00
Quiksilver Surf School Bali (Indonesia)
Four of these unused cards are available. They are probably not meant to be mailed as postcards, because the back is fully pre-printed with map and details, but if one was clever and determined, one could manage that task. Grades: 1

Code: 35300021
Price: $3.00
Stand Up Paddle with Me @ Wave Hunter Bali
Three unused cards are available, in the same style as some other recent entries: not really postcards, but if you work at it, you could mail them (and someone would be happy to receive them). Grades: 1

Code: 35300022
Price: $2.00
California The Golden State
We could have put this unused card into many more categories, but will limit ourselves to four. No padding! Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 35300023
Price: $2.00
Pro windsurfer Yegor Popretinskiy (Russia)
Internet card, mailed in 2013 with four stamps, two postmarks, and some white correctional fluid in the address. Grade: 3

Code: 35300024
Price: $1.00
Vogue (15 December 1938)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 35300025
Price: $1.00
Surfing Waikiki (Hawaii)
Mailed in the 1970s with 6-cent stamp and partial Honolulu postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 35300026
Price: $1.00
San Diego, A sunset surf at the famous Ocean Beach Pier (California)
Unused card captioned in six languages. Grade: 1

Code: 35300027
Price: $1.00
Puerto Rico, map
Mailed in 1982, with 28-cent Airmail stamp and clear San Juan postmark. Bilingual, detailed captions. Look for the tiny surfboard! Grade: 1

Code: 35300028
Price: $3.00
Hi from Catalina (California)
Unused card 1017 from a “California Girls” series. Hi, Sharon! Grade: 1

Code: 35300029
Price: $1.00
Greetings from Barbados, Surfing at the East Coast
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 35300030
Price: $3.00
Sporting Barbados
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 35300031
Price: $3.00
Surf Riding on Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA)
Unusual–maybe not then, certainly now. The caption hints at this! There’s also a large circular logo printed near the caption, and it says “See Europe if you will … But see America first”. This almost certainly dates the unused card as late 1940s. Grade: 2

Code: 35300032
Price: $2.00
Surfing at Waikiki, Northwest Orient Airlines (USA)
Unused, official Northwest Orient card PF 16-U-55. Grade: 1

Code: 35300033
Price: $2.00
Surf’s Up! (Florida)
Not up by very much, though. Maybe all the action was off to the left? Unused card FG-203 (114488). Grade: 1

Code: 35300034
Price: $1.00
Banzai Pipeline (USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P75190 (1551), rounded corners, from a publisher in Honolulu. Grade: 1

Code: 35300035
Price: $1.00
Surfing in Hawaii
Unused Plastichrome card P75385 (1553). Grade: 1

Code: 35300036
Price: $0.50
Riding the Surf (Hawaii)
It’s Hawaii, and this is the best they could do to represent surfing? Not great conditions, human or otherwise. Unused Dexter Press card 50086-B (P-104), serrated edges and beginning to show its age. Grade: 3

Code: 35300037
Price: $2.00
I (heart) Surfing (Hawaii)
Mailed in (we think) 1987, with partial postmark and 14-cent stamp. Of course, anyone in Massachusetts in February would be jealous. Grade: 1

Code: 35300038
Price: $1.00
Olowalu, Maui (Hawaii)
Unused, from about 1985. Grade: 1

Code: 35300039
Price: $1.00
Watchout (USA)
Quite a few surfing postcards focus on the action and not the location. This unused 1978 one is an example of that, but it was published in California. Grade: 1

Code: 35300040
Price: $1.00

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