Postcard
Collection object
1991.0600
H.13.6 W.8.6
Postcard, b/w, matt; portrait style; white margin at bottom; title in margin at left "The "Cathedral Window". Kilkee, Co. Clare." with "J. Bothwell, Kilkee" at right of margin. View shows a natural arch of rock on the shoreline. Reverse printed in black; at top slightly left of centre "Post Card",double underlined with vertical double division lines; to left "For Inland postage, this space, as/ well as the back, may now be/ used for communication./ For foreign postage the back only./ (Post Office Regulation)."; to right "The address only to be/ written here". Blue green half penny postage revenue stamp of Edward VII at top right. Circular black cancellation "Kilkee R.S.O. 10 45 AM/ SE 28/ 04/ Co. Clare". Addressed to Mrs Seton, 13 Clarendon Road, Holland Park London W.; unsigned message "Got these for you yesterday [cf 1991.597] Bothwell has at last consented to follow the public demand for Post cards." Pencil dealer's marks at top left "Clare"; "RSO" with arrow pointing to cancellation; and bottom centre "WAF? 75p". Sticky tape repair to top right corner as viewed from front.
J Bothwell (photographer and publisher)