Fishing smacks lie moored along the stone quay at Looe, Cornwall, their tall masts reflecting in the calm estuary water — someone named L.D. sent this real-photo card across the Atlantic as a New Year greeting, a small act of transatlantic warmth captured in silver gelatin. The sepia RPPC shows the inner harbour of this twin-town fishing village on Cornwall's south coast, with stone warehouses lining the right bank and the river mouth opening to the sea in the distance; Judges Ltd of Hastings, one of Britain's most prolific postcard publishers, assigned it catalogue number 6658. The card travelled in its original envelope, franked with a British three-halfpence King George V stamp, addressed to J.S. Morton at 679 Lake Drive, Grand Rapids, Michigan — a rare survival of card and mailing envelope together.