A dapper Edwardian gentleman named "Bertie" winks knowingly at a rosy-cheeked bathing beauty rising from the Irish Sea — the front illustration teasing "There are sweet maids & mermaids at Portrush… Bertie sees both, look inside." Lift the flap and a concertina strip of miniature black-and-white photographic views tumbles out: the West Strand shoreline, the iconic basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway Wishing Chair, Kerr Street from the Harbour, Main Street with its horse-drawn traffic, and Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge cliffs — a pocket tour of County Antrim's north coast in 1914. The card was mailed on August 9, 1914, just days after Britain declared war on Germany; sender Clara (signed "Clauen") writes cheerfully from Port Rush that she is "not sailing until the 24th Sept. and should be home about Oct. 1, if the boat sails — that was the earliest we could get accommodation, and we were fortunate to get them at all." That single anxious parenthetical — if the boat sails — captures the sudden uncertainty of August 1914 with quiet eloquence. The illustrated front is in clean chromolithographic colour; the pull-out strip is crisp and fully intact.