Framed by twin stone piers crowned with gleaming armillary spheres, the ornate wrought-iron West Gate of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich opens onto a long avenue leading to Christopher Wren's magnificent domed chapel — a lone uniformed figure standing sentinel beneath the arching ironwork gives the scale and gravity of this great maritime institution. Founded on the site of the old Royal Palace of Placentia, the Royal Naval College trained generations of British naval officers here until 1998; this card, published by Valentine & Sons of Dundee and London in their "Collo Colour" process, captures the gate in the inter-war years when the college was at the height of its prestige. The reverse is clean and unused, printed in Great Britain — the "Collo Colour" designation and Valentine's globe trademark place this squarely in the 1930s–1950s production window.