This lovely postcard features an original painting by Henry Bowser Wimbush titled "Carisbrooke Castle from Mill Pond." The Isle of Wight castle has a history — or, at least, the site has a history — that dates back well before the Romans were in what is now England.
Carisbrooke was the location of Charles I's imprisonment for more than a year before his execution on the grounds of high treason in 1649.
This is a Raphael Tuck & Sons' "Oilette" postcard. I wrote about those particular cards in December 2016 and February 2017.
The postcard was mailed in 1920 to — if I'm reading the understandably shaky cursive handwriting correctly — Leeland Thompson of Michigan. The note, I believe, states:
Dear Boy
I have got a badly sprained right wrist and can't answer your or grandma's letter now but will later. With love, Aunt Hattie.
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