What appears to be a cheerful pint of golden ale — foam cresting the rim, amber glass glowing — is actually a cleverly engineered "Mailing Novelty" from Lynmouth, Devon: lift the die-cut beer mug flap and a concertina strip of tiny black-and-white photographs spills out, revealing Lynmouth Harbour, Mars Hill, the famous Cliff Railway, and more scenes of this beloved North Devon village tucked between sea cliffs and Exmoor. Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd. of Dundee and London, this novelty postcard was passed by the G.P.O. for 2d postage rate as a "Printed Paper" — a bureaucratic footnote that makes it all the more delightful. Mailed from Bath on 17 August 1939 — just two weeks before Britain would declare war on Germany — a sender named J. tells Uncle Lewis: "We had tea at the Sun Rose Café." The card traveled across the Atlantic to Seattle, Washington, carrying with it a snapshot of peacetime England at its final, unknowing moment.