Macau Portuguese - China - Set Of 6 Prestamped Postal Cards - 1980's?

https://macauantigo.wordpress.com/c...ory/anos-50/

This site claims the postcards are `recent.` (c. 2011)

Portugal ceded Macau in 1999.

Yes, IkeyPikey, you are correct... they are surely issued under Portuguese domination, so they must be issued before 1999.

Also, I have found them mentioned in the recent "PhilaChina" catalog... available on-line... without ilustration of the these particularly, but I suppose that they are talking about these... issues.

https://issuu.com/philachina/docs/p...tamp_auction

However, it has been a very useful set of six... for all sides of the world...

http://macauantigo.blogspot.com/200...archive.html

The same site identifies the postcards as being released in 1993.

This fellow has them for sale for 14 Euros each. (Wow! Could that be a reasonable price, ikey?!)

www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,207040512,var,Macau-Portugal-Entier-Postal-transport-du-courrier-en-pousse-pousse-c-1990-Macao-Stationery-carrying-mail-rickshaw,language,E.html

He places them c. 1990.

EDIT: I can't get the link to work correctly.

Thanks, but you must have me confused with PoStat4evR.

I was just at a postcard show where cards were priced U$D 200, 300, 400 ... per card, not per box.

As always, condition matters, and venue matters.

The per-item-price of postal stationery & picture postcards online seems most often to be based on the idea that you are waiting for the guy who is dying to buy it.

This contrasts with, say, classic stamps, where there is almost always a large & active market, so dropping the price a bit will get you a quick sale.

The thinner the market, the more it pays to list high, and wait.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

What did I do Ikey? I would say the price is a little high, that said, the European pricing on a lot of postal stationery is somewhat high in my opinion (as compared to US pricing). Stamps (and pricing) are taken a lot more seriously over there. If it has a "make offer" do so, if not, you have two choices, pass it up or buy it for the asking price.

Delcampe has very high prices on most everything he sells

Here is a page from his website where he has these postal stationery items for sale at 14 Euros each which is about $13.50 Euros above what they sell for in other places such as ebay and in dealers' dollar boxes. I can't entirely blame Depcampe for his prices though since he is trying to make a living for himself and his family and to get to enough money coming in to cover his operating costs and paying himself a salary on which to support a family and such he does need to make a huge profit on every sale which is why he prices his things so far above what you can buy them for in other places - he is offering you shopping convenience for a price and there are some collectors who have more money than time who are willing to pay dealers like him such prices. If you were to try to sell your Macao postal stationery items to him you would be lucky if he even made you an offer and if he did it would likely be in the range of 1 or 2 Euros for all of your cards. http://www.delcampe.net/page/list/l...tionery.html

Kimo: the Delcampe website is not just one person but an auction style website. Each of the listings is from different persons. Anyone can list an item at what ever price is wanted. Whether it sells or not is another matter. The items that you reference were not listed by the person Delcampe but by another person (Portugal) whose screen name is stampsandpostcards. Not an important distinction, but, nevertheless, a distinction that needs to be mentioned.

I can see, amongst the other items that seller is listing, only 4 cards from this set. That makes me thinking that he also once have had the rest of 2 from the set, and possibly sold them. So I have customized the options, and there is visible that he actually sold one of them (with the price EUR 11.20) to the buyer "Bicycle_stamps" (Delcampe doesn't hide the names of the buyers, just as ebay didn't do that a decade or more ago, as much as I can recall).

http://www.delcampe.net/page/item/i...guage,E.html

Thanks, Glenn. I did not know that Delcampe was not a single dealer but actually an on line auction website. Still the prices I see there seem far above what you can buy the same things for on ebay or other places.