Postcard
Collection object
1991.0385
H.8.7 W.13.9
Postcard, b/w, glossy; white margin around; title in centre of bottom margin "Foynes Harbour". View from the hill behind the harbour, looking down on the harbour, with large crane in centre of picture; in the background out on the water a flying boat is moored. Reverse printed in black; at centre top "Post Card" with a shield below it in which "Signal/ Series/ E & S Ltd/ D & S"; below shield "This is a real photograph" reading down, as central division; left of centre "Correspondence". Three stamps, Eire, at top right corner; a conjoined pair of green halfpenny definitive issue showing a monk sat at a desk set upside down, and a red one pingin definitive issue showing the outline map of Ireland set sideways below the previous. Two circular black cancellations across the stamps, both poorly struck only "Pailis Ca??raighe" legible, Pallaskenry? Addressed to Mrs Green, Millmount, Banbridge, Co. Down, from Alice message family? gossip. Pencil dealer's marks "Lim" at top left; "Note Sea Plane/ £6" to bottom right.
Eason & Son Ltd (published by)