(FINALLY!!!) Lovely Postcards of Hong Kong Vintage Posting Boxes! :D

I don’t remember for how long I’ve been waiting for their birth! >_< I finally stumbled across them at the Central Post Office shop on 7 Dec 2013 – what a lovely surprise! :D

There are 16 postcards in total and some of them show the unique green vintage posting boxes in Hong Kong. :D

Hong Kong used to be a colony of the Great Britain so in the past we had lots of red British posting boxes. After the handover in 1997 there are still some vintage posting boxes left. The ones that have survived were all painted green and are still in service, except for the ones displayed at the Central Post Office, the Hong Kong Museum of History, etc.

I did visit the vintage pillar box at the Central Post Office in August 2013. :D It still looks fabulous! >_<

You can see “VR” on the pillar box. :) VR stands for Victoria Regina (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901).

Upon my request, we painted the pillar box in our August watercolour class. :D (One of the pillar boxes was painted by me xD The prettiest one was painted by our teacher :D)

I love vintage posting boxes so much that I decided to join the HK old postboxes checkup team to help preserve these lovely posting boxes. :D Many thanks to our Lemonhead leader. xD (Here is the blog of our team: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/)

I checked 4 posting boxes in Cheung Chau on 9Nov2013. :D —> http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/tag/rabbit%E9%9A%8A%E5%93%A1/

Anyway, it’s time to show you the lovely postcards that I’ve bought recently. :D

Their size: 14 cm x 24 cm

HK Posting box 01

Posting Box no. 55

KGV 佐治五世 (1910-1936)

Location: Yau Yat Chuen, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon

地 點: 九龍塘 又一村 高槐道 ∕ 玉蘭路

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/55/

HK Posting box 02

Posting Box no. 91

KGV (GRV) 佐治五世 (1910-1936)

Location: Crocodile Hill, Kwun Tong, Kowloon

地 點: 觀塘 鱷魚山 康利道 康利苑

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/91-2/

HK Posting box 03

Posting Box no. 110

KGV 佐治五世 (1910-1936)

Location: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Kowloon

地 點:中文大學崇基學院巴士站

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/110-2/

HK Posting box 04

Posting Box no. 143

KGV 佐治五世 (1910-1936)

Location: Lantau Island

地 點:大嶼山石壁監獄停車場外

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/143/

HK Posting box 05

Posting Box no. 227

KGVI (GRVI) 佐治六世 (1936-1952)

Location: School Road, Cheung Chau

地 點: 長洲 學校道/山邊路

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/227/

HK Posting box 06

Posting Box no. 235

KGV (GRV) 佐治五世 (1910-1936)

Location: Lei Yue Mun Praya Road, Yau Tong, Kowloon

地 點: 鯉魚門 海傍道15號

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/235/

HK Posting box 07

Posting Box no. 239

Location: Central, Hong Kong Island

地 點: 香港 中環 遮打道/皇后像廣場

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/239/

HK Posting box 08

Posting Box no. 256

KGV 佐治五世 (1910-1936)

Location: Sok Kwu Wan, Lamma Island

地 點: 南丫島 – 索罟灣

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/256/

HK Posting box 09

Posting Box no. 401

KGVI (GRVI) 佐治六世 (1936-1952)

Location: Sai Kung, New Territories

地 點: 西貢 對面海 明順村

Link: http://hkoldpostbox.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/401/

HK Posting box 10

HK Posting box 11

HK Posting box 12

HK Posting box 13

HK Posting box 14

HK Posting box 15

HK Posting box 16

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(Offer) Vintage postcards of Chinese actresses in Hong Kong :)

Please let me know which one you prefer. :) I’m also curious about which actress(es) you find most good-looking. :D

Actress 01

Ivy Ling (凌波, Ling Bo) (born Huang Yujun 黃裕君; Shantou, January 1939) is a Chinese actress and Huangmei opera singer. Her other stage names across her career have included Jun Haitan (君海棠), Xiao Juan (小娟), and Shen Yan (沈雁). She played an important role in the entertainment industry for preserving the art form.

(From Wikipedia)

Actress 02

Bai Guang 白光 (birth name Chinese: 史永芬; pinyin: Shǐ Yǒngfēn; June 27, 1921, Beiping, now Beijing, China – August 27, 1999 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) was a famous movie star and singer. By the 1940s, she became one of the Seven great singing stars.

(From Wikipedia)

Actress 03

Bak Sheut-sin 白雪仙 (born 1 April 1926 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China), also known as Bai Xuexian, is a famous former Chinese opera actress in China and Hong Kong.

Bak is notable for pairing up with fellow Cantonese opera star Yam Kim Fai. Some of her major works include The Peony Pavilion and Tai Nui Fa. She has received awards from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Hong Kong University for her contribution to the opera art form.

(From Wikipedia)

Actress 04

Zhou Xuan 周璇 (August 1, 1918 or 1920 – September 22, 1957), also romanized as Chow Hsuan, was a popular Chinese singer and film actress. By the 1940s, she had become one of China’s seven great singing stars. She is probably the most well-known of the seven, as she had a concurrent movie career until 1953. She recorded more than 200 songs and appeared in over 40 films in her career.

(From Wikipedia)

Actress 05

白燕（1920年－1987年5月6日），原名陳玉屏，廣東惠州人，是香港1950年代至1960年代粵語片女演員，人稱扁姐，有「華南影后」的美譽。白燕精於演繹不幸女性，及賢妻良母，形象鮮明，端莊嫻淑，故事寫實。幕前對手有著名小生吳楚帆、張瑛、張活游等。期間總共主演影片有300多部。

(From Wikipedia)

I can’t find the English version. -_- She’s a Hong Kong actress active in 1960’s – 1970’s.

Actress 06

Li Lihua 李麗華 (Theresa Li) was born in Hebei, China (August 17th, 1925), to Beijing opera performing parents. Thanks to a long and popular movie career and youthful looks, she is nicknamed ‘The Evergreen Tree’ of Chinese cinema. She began acting in movies in 1940 and acted in over 120 movies before she retired in 1973. Her breakthrough was in a leading role in ‘Xiao Feng Xian’, a role by which she is still known first and foremost. 

(From IMDb)

Actress 07

Linda Lin Dai (Chinese: 林黛 born Cheng Yueru (程月如) 26 December 1934 in Guilin – died 17 July 1964) was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during 1950s–60s. She was a star actress in the Shaw Brothers Studio stable.

Lin Dai was awarded the Best Actress at the Asia Pacific Film Festival four times for her performances in films produced by Shaw Studio. Whilst she attended short courses on drama and linguistics at Columbia University, New York in 1958, she met and fell in love with Long Shengxun, the son of Long Yun who was a former governor of China’s Yunnan province. They married on 12 February 1961 in Hong Kong.

She committed suicide at home in Hong Kong in July 1964, using an overdose of sleeping pills and inhalation of methane gas, due to family matters referred by the media as “trivial”. Her death shocked the Chinese community. She left behind two unfinished films, The Lotus Lamp and Blue And Black (I and II).

(From Wikipedia)

Actress 08

尤敏 You Min, Lucilla You, as she was billed outside of Hong Kong, was born Bi Yuyi 毕玉仪 in Hong Kong on August 19, 1936, the eldest of six children of Cantonese opera performers well-known in Hong Kong and Macao.  Bi Yuyi received early operatic training from a cousin of her parents, and by age 9 had already appeared with her father’s opera company in a juvenile role.

(From Chinese Mirror)

 

(Special offer) Chinese New Year in Hong Kong :)

Postcards:

Chinese New Year 01

Chinese New Year 02

Chinese New Year 03

Chinese New Year 04

 

Folded greetings cards:

Chinese New Year 05

Chinese New Year 06

(Offer) Busy Hong Kong :P

Hong Kong life is busy, busy and BUSY. :P It’s so true! The following light painting postcards are fun. :)

Please let me know which one you prefer!

(From top to bottom: Busy 01, 02, 03)

(Offer) Rubber duck in Hong Kong

The cute Rubber Duck by the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman once stayed in the Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong in May 2013. So many people were crazy about it! @@

So far I only managed to get hold of the following rubber duck postcard. :P

Duck 01

(Offer) Starry sky in Hong Kong :)

For those of you who love stargazing, here are some postcards showing the starry sky in Hong Kong. Considering the serious light pollution in Hong Kong, it’s not easy to see these lovely stars in HK! @@

Please let me know which one you prefer! :)

(Photos by the postcard shop, not by me)

Starry sky 01

Starry sky 02

Starry sky 03

Starry sky 04

Starry sky 05

Starry sky 06 (NOT available for now)

(Offer) Clock tower postcard with matching postmark

Clock tower postcards with matching postmark from the Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office. :D

Please let me know which clock tower postcard you prefer. ^^ Please also note that if you’d like to have the matching clock tower postmark as well, it may take you longer to receive the postcard. :)

Here’s the clock tower postmark:

Clock tower 01

Clock tower 02