Standing proudly outside the whitewashed Old Blacksmith's Shop at Gretna Green, a man in a long white coat gazes at the camera — perhaps the "priest" who made runaway marriages legal by Scottish declaration, an industry that flourished for nearly two centuries after England's 1753 Marriage Act drove eloping couples north across the border. This evocative pre-WWII card combines a photographic view of the famous building — its signage boasting "Famous for its Runaway Marriages" and a gothic-arched "Marriage Room" window — with a printed facsimile of the actual marriage certificate used at the shop prior to June 1940, issued under the authority of the Kingdom of Scotland, County of Dumfries, Parish of Gretna. The blank certificate form, complete with lines for parties, witnesses, and priest, is a remarkable primary-source document of Scottish irregular marriage law, making this card simultaneously a souvenir, a legal artifact, and a piece of social history.