One of the most charming literary-ephemera postcards a Dickens collector could encounter, this early British card reproduces a photograph of "The Little Wooden Midshipman" — the carved trade figurine from Charles Dickens's novel Dombey and Son, shown in full regalia with sextant raised, standing on his coiled-rope base exactly as Dickens described the instrument-maker's shop sign on the Minories — published by the actual nautical chart firm Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson at 156 Minories, London, the very address that inspired the fictional Sol Gills's shop. The undivided-format reverse specifying "A Half Penny Stamp" for inland use and "For Inland Use Only" dates this squarely to the pre-1902 British postcard era, making it a genuinely rare piece of Dickensiana and publishing history combined. Unused, bright, and completely unaddressed.