Glassy water reflects the sky above a weir on the River Dee at Chester, England, where rowboats rest along the far bank and a delicate suspension footbridge arches in the distance — this quietly beautiful Edwardian gravure card by C.W. Faulkner & Co. of London captures the timeless calm of one of England's most ancient cities, founded by the Romans as Deva Victrix nearly two thousand years ago. The monochrome photographic print, part of Faulkner's Series No. 124.D, shows the weir cascade at lower right — the same weir painted by Turner and sketched by generations of artists — while mill buildings line the right bank and summer foliage softens the far shore. The reverse follows the early British "divided back" format with the split message/address instruction text characteristic of cards produced just after the GPO's 1902 ruling allowing messages on the address side: "This side may have a message written upon it for Inland Postage, but the right hand side must be reserved for address and stamp only." Entirely unused and unposted, this card is a handsome example of early Edwardian topographic postcardmaking at its restrained best.