Postcard
Collection object
1991.0563
H.8.9 W.14.1
Postcard, b/w sepia toned, matt; title in bottom left "General View of Limerick, Dock Area". View from a height looking towards the city from the dock area; the old entrance to the dock is in the left foreground cut at edge; in centre foreground a ship in the graving dock, Dock road entering view at bottom right corner; Sarsfield Bridge in middle distance left and tower of St. Mary's visible beyond it. Reverse printed in brown; at centre top a circle with a depiction of a church ruin in the upper two thirds and "Mungret/ series" in lower third; "Post" to left and "Card" to right of previous.; up centre as division"Irish Tourist Association Photo- Copyright/ Printed in Eire "Ref/I"; left of centre "Correspondence" right of centre "Address" partly obscured by stamp. at top right a conjoined pair of red one pingin, Eire definitive issue stamps, showing the outline map of Ireland. Two circular black cancellations, same repeated, over stamps; "Lios na Groighe/ 29 JY/ 48" Lisnagry. Addressed to J.E. de G. Sells, 38 Deerings Road, Reigate, Surrey from B.; message weather fine and mention of auntie Peppie [cf. 1991.557?]. Pencil dealer's marks at top left "Lim" and bottom right of centre "£1.25".
Irish Tourist Association (published by)