A sun-drenched August day at Colwyn Bay's celebrated Victoria Pier pavilion — labelled "Rivière's" on the ornate domed pavilion head, after the famous concert-party impresario — blazes in hand-coloured halftone as Edwardian day-trippers in full dark dress promenade the curved seafront road and settle onto the sandy beach, the headland of Little Orme glowing in the distance across a tranquil Irish Sea; the card was posted on 15 August 1908 from Colwyn Bay to Miss Jennie in Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.A., by a traveller who enthuses that "the water in this picture is too calm to give you any idea of the beautiful waves — our windows overlook the entire Bay, we have a bed-room and a cute little private dining-room… Hope Mother will like it. Colwyn Bay is in the North part of Wales." The Hartmann publisher's trademark (a figure with a bat) appears on the back alongside two King Edward VII ½d green stamps used to make up the 1d overseas postcard rate, franked with a crisp Colwyn Bay double-circle datestamp.