Divided back, British, unused, Real Photo Postcard with glossy finish. Circa 1902 – 1918.

Price:  $12.00

I guess this is like an outing within an outing. 😉 But it’s a Real Photo Postcard with glossy finish, presumably taken in England, of a group of seven people. I think there is a family resemblance for the group, and they are posed in a fake car in front of a photographer’s backdrop. Everyone is very stylish, but the hats on the three ladies really stand out. The young girl on the left is holding a box camera. I love the “driver’s” expression, how he is the only one facing the “road” and the expression’s on the faces in general. This family was getting a kick out of posing for this photo, though the gentleman standing perhaps was “suffering through.”….Curiously, on the far left there is some wording. We can make out  “SAIL…”  so was the next scene over one of a sailboat with a seaport backdrop?

There is no writing or date on this card. Playles.com shows this stamp box, but with dates unknown. There’s a hyphen in halfpenny on this one, showing  “Affix Half-penny Stamp.”  (There was another stamp box design that was used with the same words but minus the hyphen.) Various references were found for the half-penny stamp for British postcards running from 1894 – 1918, but the divided back in Great Britian started in 1902. As far as the box camera, there were a number of different models; we don’t see any wording on this one, and similar styles were found online indicating 1900 – 1920, so this angle was not helpful in dating the card. We’d estimate it then to have been taken around 1902 – 1918.