Postcard: Old Cottage, Banstead Village
So here we have a colour postcard, postmarked ‘Sutton 19 Feb 1910’ and captioned ‘Old Cottage Banstead Village’ (that's Banstead in Surrey, where I spent the first 25 years of my life). I have a feeling this is completely stylised, but who knows – perhaps this old cottage really did exist.
The postcard is published by S. Hildesheimer & Co of London and Manchester, and is listed as ‘Views of Sutton & District, No 5518’. It’s addressed to Miss Lizzie Farrow, Killingholme, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and sent by her Auntie: 'Uncle Robert improving. Last year at this time I was with you all. It was better weather too.'
A little research reveals that Siegmund Hildesheimer (1832-96) founded his company in Manchester, and that he had a branch in London. Hildesheimer postcards primarily employed a chromo-lithography printing process which was done in France and Germany ‘or at local English printing houses’.
Postcard: Old Cottage, Banstead Village
So here we have a colour postcard, postmarked ‘Sutton 19 Feb 1910’ and captioned ‘Old Cottage Banstead Village’ (that's Banstead in Surrey, where I spent the first 25 years of my life). I have a feeling this is completely stylised, but who knows – perhaps this old cottage really did exist.
The postcard is published by S. Hildesheimer & Co of London and Manchester, and is listed as ‘Views of Sutton & District, No 5518’. It’s addressed to Miss Lizzie Farrow, Killingholme, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and sent by her Auntie: 'Uncle Robert improving. Last year at this time I was with you all. It was better weather too.'
A little research reveals that Siegmund Hildesheimer (1832-96) founded his company in Manchester, and that he had a branch in London. Hildesheimer postcards primarily employed a chromo-lithography printing process which was done in France and Germany ‘or at local English printing houses’.