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Postcard 1920s Cumberland Stone Culloden Moor Scotland RPPC Ness Series
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Pre-linen · 1925

Postcard 1920s Cumberland Stone Culloden Moor Scotland RPPC Ness Series

Culloden Moor, Scotland, UK1925Pre-linenExcellent

A lone glacial boulder sits brooding on the heather-flecked expanse of Culloden Moor — the very stone from which the Duke of Cumberland is said to have watched his government troops annihilate Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army on 16 April 1746, the last pitched battle fought on British soil. This sepia real-photograph card captures the weathered granite mass with remarkable tactile clarity: lichen patches mottle its broad flat top, rough-hewn sides catch the pale Highland light, and a stand of slender conifers frames the horizon behind a distant telegraph pole — a quiet modernity intruding on a site of profound loss. The "Ness Series" real-photo format, produced by H.W.F. & Co. and printed in Great Britain, places this card in the interwar period, when battlefield tourism to Culloden was being actively promoted. Card number 704 in the series; unposted and unwritten, it survives in crisp condition, the image sharp and the stock clean.

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PC-02028 · Ness Series / H.W.F. & Co.
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