Edwardian promenaders — a woman in a deep-burgundy skirt sheltering under a parasol, a gentleman in a dark coat beside her — stand at the River Thames bank and gaze across the shimmering water toward the battlements and round tower of Windsor Castle, England's oldest and largest occupied castle, in this richly embossed chromolithograph postcard from the very earliest years of the twentieth century. The image has the hand-tinted warmth and crinkled canvas texture of the finest German-printed cards of the era, produced at the lithographic works in Saxony that supplied the world's postcard publishers before the Great War shut those trade routes forever. The Peacock Brand trademark on the undivided back — address only, with postage rates of ½d inland and 1d abroad — places this firmly in the pre-1902 British undivided-back era, making it among the oldest cards in any collection. A tiny pinhole at top center and light corner bumping are the only concessions to age in an otherwise vibrant card. The detail photograph reveals the fine halftone dot-matrix of the Saxony lithographic press, a technical marvel of its time.