Postcard
Collection object
1986.0220
H. 8.9 W. 13.9
Postcard, b/w matt, landscape format. Title at bottom left "Main St. Abbeyfeale". View along a wide main street with shops and houses lining both sides; five carts on the street, one moving towards camera in distance; shop at front right has scaffolding up gable end and a barrel and some trunks by the kerb outside. Reverse printed in green; at centre top "Post Card" with double underlining and double division line below; up left edge "Hely's Limited Dublin"; to left of centre "This space may be used for communication Inland/ and to all Foreign Countries except Japan/ Spain and United States."; to right "The Address Only to be/ Written here"; box for stamp at top right mostly obscured by stamp. Pale green halfpenny postage revenue stamp of Edward VII. Circular cancellation "Abbeyfeale R.S.[O.]/ PM/ 12 15/ FE 1/ 10". Addressed in blue pencil to H. Dunn Esq., The Weir, Hessle, Hull, Yorks., from Mr[s?] Barron; message, why in Hades don't you write after your visit to "Paddy-land"? Small tea? stain; a spot on upper edge front.