This is an artist-signed postcard, not in the best of shape – pen mark on the left sky area – entitled  “York Minster, from the City Walls, Early Morning.”  The signature shows as:  “T. Guy.”  This same postcard view was found on eBay, on a sale that had ended, and a different T. Guy artist-signed card entitled, “Petergate York”  was found on the vintage postcard blog Dakotaboo. (Nice blog and nice postcard. Of the two for the artist’s work, I really like the Petergate one with it’s gorgeous colors.) But nothing else, as of the date of this post, was found for or about this artist. Hmm, yet another mystery!

From a Wiki entry,  “York Minster is the cathedral in York, England, and one of the largest in it’s kind in Northern Europe.” 

I picked this one up also because of the charming publisher logo on the back. In all the fancy scroll work is a design showing a figure of a girl?, holding a pole with lantern? with one hand and in the other a cup?, and with the words,  ” ‘Dainty’ Series.”  This one’s a little bit later version that the publisher used. The thing is, on the earlier version the figure appears to be a man. I thought at first that it was the same figure, and that just with the detail not as sharp, was mistaking the man for a little girl. Not so sure now, after comparing both. But we’ll put up examples of both in another post on the publisher. The date estimated for this one is starting 1908 because of a 1908 dated card in the same style found online (eBay) but with a lower series or number. But whether the bigger numbers mean later in time is not certain.

See our Laurel Cottage entry on this publisher with further links for more details.

Divided back unused, artist-signed postcard. Printed in England. Publisher:  E.T.W. Dennis & Sons, Ltd., London & Scarborough. Number or series 4059. Circa 1908 – 1910.

Price:  $12.00

Sources:  “Artist drawn, vintage postcards of Suffolk, Sussex and Yorkshire.” Dakotaboo, March 29, 2013. Web accessed February 7, 2015.

York Minster. n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Minster. (accessed February 7, 2015).