Postcard
Collection object
1991.0104
H.8.7 W.13.8
Postcard, colour, matt; novelty type, titled at top left "Our Local Express to Kilkee". Cartoon shows a steam train pulling into a station, the carriages are already overloaded and a crowd of people are sitting on the roofs and several people are sitting on various parts of the engine; a whole crowd of people are rushing along the platform to get on the train. Reverse printed in green; at centre top a shield surmounted by a heraldic style lion, with "National/ Series" inside and "Trade Mark/ Made in Gt. Britain./ No170." below the shield; vertical centre division line; to left "This space for Inland, Colonial,/ and certain/ Foreign Correspondence."; to right "The address only to be/ written here"; rectangular box for stamp at top right, inside of which "Place/ Postage Stamp/ Here." Unposted and unused. Water damaged along bottom.