Antique & Vintage Postcards

The Grand Hotel at Harrogate rises in Edwardian splendour behind manicured valley gardens — its golden-domed towers and honey-stone facade glowing in afternoon sun while a gentleman and a parasol-carrying lady stroll the terraced lawns in the foreground, a scene of effortless upper-class leisure rendered with the polished chromolithographic craft for which Raphael Tuck & Sons' Oilette series was celebrated. This unposted advertising card was likely distributed by the hotel itself (the reverse includes full descriptive text noting the hotel's proximity to the Sulphur Well and Baths, self-contained suites, lifts to all floors, and Motor Garage — its telephone number charmingly listed as simply "1017"). An evocative time capsule of the Edwardian spa resort era in Yorkshire, this card remains in excellent, clean condition.