Category: Foreign

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Diélette (Channel) ~ The Lifeboat, going to the rescue of the “Dundee Madeleine”

The Lighthouse is the Diélette Breakwater Light

Diélette (Channel) ~ The Lifeboat, going to the rescue of the “Dundee Madeleine”

TITLE: Diélette (Manche) ~ Le Canot de Sauvetage, allant au secours du “Dundee Madeleine”
Translation from google.com
Diélette (Channel) ~ The Lifeboat, going to the rescue of the “Dundee Madeleine”
CAPTION: None
POSTCARD ID: 23
PUBLISHER: Unknown
POSTMARK: 05-7-(19)09

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Royal Sovereign Lightship

Royal Sovereign Lightship

TITLE: Royal Sovereign Lightship
CAPTION: None
POSTCARD ID: 1263
PUBLISHER: J. Davis, 24, Queen Victoria St., E.C. Printed At The Works, Hamburg
Victoria Series Post Card
POSTMARK: Unused Standard Sized Postcard.

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Versailles (Trianon). – La Laiterie

Versilles (Trianon). – La Laiterie Hameau de la Reine ~ The Queen’s Hamlet

TITLE: Versailles (Trianon). – La Laiterie
Hameau de la Reine ~ The Queen’s Hamlet
CAPTION: None
POSTCARD ID: 184
PUBLISHER: P. D. Paris
POSTMARK: Unused Standard Sized Postcard

According to Wikipedia, “The Hameau de la Reine … The Queen’s Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783…

… The building scheme included a farmhouse, a dairy, a dovecote, a boudoir, a barn … a mill and a tower in the form of a lighthouse.”

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Gibraltar Europa Point during a storm

Gibraltar Europa Point during a storm

TITLE: Gibraltar Europa Point during a storm
CAPTION: None
POSTCARD ID: None
PUBLISHER: Published by Photochrom Co., Ltd., Tunbridge Wells
for Messrs Bruce Starke & Co., Ltd., London
POSTMARK: Unused Standard Sized, White Border Postcard