Zoo – Global Postcard Sales

Showing 1–40 of 56 postcards

Zoo and Lake Gardens (Taiping, Malaysia)
Caption on reverse says “Taiping – the town of eternal peace.” How nice is that? But it sounds like a mortuary. Card was mailed in 1990, has Perak (Malaysia) stamp and partial postmark. Also has orange postal bar code at bottom reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 36700001
Price: $4.00
San Diego Zoo, koalas (USA)
Unused card 0DK-441. Grade: 1

Code: 36700002
Price: $1.00
San Diego Zoo, penguins (California, USA)
Unused official Zoo card B-1 (and 0DK-771) from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 36700003
Price: $2.00
San Diego Zoo, polar bears (USA)
Unused card 0DK-575 from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 36700004
Price: $1.00

San Diego Zoo, South African egg eating snake (California, USA)

This snake certainly has a more formal name but the official card from the San Diego Zoo (in the 1960s) only calls it a South African Egg Eating Snake, but helpfully adds that the shell is spit out later. Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 36700005

Price: $1.00

San Diego Zoo, South African egg eating snake (California, USA)

San Diego Zoo, greater kudu (California, USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 36700006
Price: $1.00
Greetings from San Diego Zoo (folio) (California, USA)
Nice, unused fold-out folio D-12794 from the 1950s or early 1960s. Just some storage abrasion on the cover. Grade: 2

Code: 36700007
Price: $6.50

Zoological Gardens, Apple Valley (Minnesota, USA)

Caption on reverse says: “Quarters for the Tropical Rain Forest,” which is fine though slightly disconnected from the big “Minnesota Wildlife” totem in the photo. Card was mailed in 1991, with partly legible St. Paul postmark, a 29-cent Saroyan stamp and another 29-cent Cole Porter stamp. Artistic! Postal service small imprint on front. Grade: 2

Code: 36700008

Price: $2.00

Zoological Gardens, Apple Valley (Minnesota, USA)

Carlsbad Zoological-Botanical State Park (New Mexico)
Card has a perforated edge (so was once part of a set), and was mailed in 1973 with 6-cent stamp and full postmark. A little bit of postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 36700009
Price: $1.50
Lotus lake in the zoo (Saigon)

Unused card from the 1970s, before the latest war ended. Grade: 2

Code: 36700010
Price: $8.00
Zoo Negara, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – rabbit
For awhile, rabbit (arnab) was popular as burger meat in Kuala Lumpur street stalls. Bugs Bunny Burgers. Yum. This card was mailed in 1986, with stamp and partly readable postmark and a little extra marking. Grade: 3

Code: 36700012
Price: $2.00
Kyiv (Kiev) Zoo, Lynx (Ukraine)
Mailed in 2010 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 36700013
Price: $2.00
Phoenix Zoo, flamingos (USA)
Unused card just starting to age. Grade: 1

Code: 36700014
Price: $0.50
Phoenix Zoo, Arizona Exhibit (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 36700015
Price: $1.00
Detroit Zoo, Polar Bear exhibit
Unused Plastichrome card P1506 (D-28). Grade: 2

Code: 36700016
Price: $2.00
Swope Park Zoo, Sea lion pool, Kansas City (Missouri, USA)
Unused Tetricolor card 30363. Grade: 2

Code: 36700017
Price: $1.00
Cleveland Zoo, Monkey Island
We can also see monkeys in the New Territories here, but we also understand that if you’re in Cleveland, the New Territories of Hong Kong are far away. Perhaps the mythical Australian folk hero Bronc Morret can sponsor a similar facility here. Unused Curteichcolor card 2DK-38, aging significantly on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 36700018
Price: $1.00
Detroit Zoo, Southern White Rhinocerous
Mailed in 2011, 98-cent stamp and contemporary postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 36700019
Price: $1.00
Jurong Bird Park and waterfall (Singapore)
Unused 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 36700020
Price: $4.00
Singapore Zoo: Bengal or Indian Tiger
Magnificent animals, presumably safe in this environment. Unused 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 36700021
Price: $4.00
Polar bear enclosure at Singapore Zoological Gardens
Unused 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 36700022
Price: $4.00
New York Zoological Park, Part of elk herd
Who knew they had an entire herd of elk? This unused card is an Official Post Card of the New York Zoological Park. Grade: 2

Code: 36700023
Price: $4.00
Lincoln Park, Animal House, Chicago (Illinois, USA)
Mailed in 1915 with stamp and full postmark. Heavily aged. Grade: 3 (barely)

Code: 36700024
Price: $4.00
Samut Prakarn, Crocodile Farm & Zoo (Thailand)
This place near Bangkok routinely gets terrible reviews. But the unused card dates from 2012. Grade: 1

Code: 36700026
Price: $3.00
Crocodile Farm and Zoo (Thailand)
The seven scenes, including this Crocodile Farm & Zoo, are individually identified on the reverse of this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 36700027
Price: $3.00
San Diego Wild Animal Park, White Rhinoceros and South African Ostrich (California)
Unused “Animal Color Series” card no. ZW.1, from the park. Serrated edges. Three cards are available. Grades: 2

Code: 36700028
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Brookfield Zoo, Giant Panda (USA)
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone linen postcard 8A-H404 (and 168), and when you see the odd caption you will know how appearances (and postcards) can deceive. Grade: 1

Code: 36700029
Price: $3.00
Louisville Zoo, King Louie, white alligator (Kentucky, USA)
King Louie is still at the zoo, apparently, only one of 40 albino alligators in captivity. This card was mailed in 2012 with four different stamps and partly readable postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 36700030
Price: $2.00
Indianapolis Zoo (Indiana, USA)
Mailed in 2012 with address and other sticker on the reverse, along with $1.05 stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 36700031
Price: $0.50
Bear, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
Unused CAPSCO linen card 78710, dated 1948 on the front, of this European Brown Bear in the Washington, D.C. Zoo. Grade: 1

Code: 36700032
Price: $2.00
Zoo de Madrid, lions and tigers (3D)
Very nice 3D card (lenticular printing) showing a range of photos of lions and tigers, depending on your perspective. Two are available. One was mailed from Spain in 2012 with two stamps (three, if you count the se-tenant large stub of one of them) (Grade: 1, $5). The other was mailed in 2013, with three stamps and full postmark (Grade: 1, $6).

Code: 36700033
Price: $5.00
St. Louis, New Bear Pits at Zoo, Forest Park (Missouri, USA)
Mailed in 1926 with stamp and postmark, this card is heavily aged and stained, but somehow clear and intact, and if you are a collector of zoo postcards … Grade: 4

Code: 36700034
Price: $3.00
Five lion cubs born at the Cincinnati Zoo (USA)
The front of this old local unused card is OK. But it had been pasted into an album, so the reverse is severely disfigured by marks where that was done. Grade: 5

Code: 36700035
Price: $0.50
Milwaukee, Goat Island at Washington Park Zoo (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 70402 (166-D-25), unusually dirty and handled on the back but no rips or tears. Grade: 4

Code: 36700036
Price: $0.50
The Alaska Zoo, polar bear
An astonishingly long and comprehensive caption on the back of this unused card, telling just about everything you could ever want to know about polar bears, but not where the Zoo is. Grade: 1

Code: 36700037
Price: $3.00
San Diego Zoo, Flamingos (California)
Do you collect flamingo postcards? Well … Unused entry SDZ-4 of the Animal Color Series from the San Diego Zoo: Flamingos with the San Diego Zoo Tour Bus in the background. A rubber-stamped date “Mar 1962” on lower left reverse, and also written on lower right front. Grade: 4

Code: 36700038
Price: $1.00
San Diego’s Zoo (California)
“Considered by many experts to be the greatest zoo in the world.” Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 36700039
Price: $1.00
Detroit Zoo, Monkey Island (Michigan, USA)
Unused, E.C. Kropp linen-style card 9681 (57), describing this as the “Most interesting zoo in America–Woodward at Ten Mile Road”. It’s an interesting yet somewhat sad caption. Grade: 1

Code: 36700040
Price: $2.00
San Diego, The Zoo in Balboa Park (California)
Unused E.C. Kropp card 30803, with every animal kindly identified in the caption on the back. Grade: 2

Code: 36700041
Price: $3.00
Birds (set of four, front captions) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
Set of four unused maximum cards, with captions on the fronts. Issued in 2009, and we think this set commemorates the 50th anniversary of Pyongyang’s Zoo. But we do not guarantee that to be true. Grade: 1

Code: 36700042
Price: $18.00

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Unused card from the 1970s, before the latest war ended. Grade: 2