Wednesday, February 8, 2017

2 more "Oilette" postcards from Raphael Tuck & Sons

Just before Christmas, I featured a snowball-themed "Oilette" postcard that was published by Raphael Tuck & Sons and mailed in 1906. Oilette cards, first published in 1903, had a "surface designed to appear as a miniature oil painting. Early 'Oilettes' had a brush stroke simulation, but the vast majority of Tuck 'Oilettes' have a smooth surface."

Here are another pair of cards from that series.


This is labeled "THE SCOTCH COAST OFF ANSTRUTHER" on the front.

On the back, we find this information:

ROUGH SEAS, SCOTCH COAST. Series I.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' "OILETTE" [Regd.] Postcard 7061.
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN
The Scotch Coast, off Anstruther. Anstruther in Fifeshire is a closely-packed and red-roofed fishing town rising directly from the water's edge, with a green and well-wooded country behind it. It was the birthplace, in 1780, of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D. Six miles south-east of it is the Isle of May, whose lighthouse is the only one in Scotland lighted by electricity.
This postcard was mailed from Detroit, Michigan, to Stratford, Ontario, in December 1906. It was sent to a Miss Flora Nichol. There was no message.

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On the front of the above postcard, the word Oilette is written in orange in the lower-left corner. There is an indecipherable (to me) symbol in the lower right.

Here's the information from the back:

"THE RESTLESS SEA."
Raphael Tuck & Sons' "OILETTE" [Regd.] Postcard 7171.
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN
A RISING TIDE. From the original painting by Professor Van Hier

The postcard was also mailed from Detroit, Michigan, to Flora in Stratford, Ontario, in early July 1907. Again, there is no message.

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