Rolling thatched stone cottages, a lush cottage garden bursting with hollyhocks and roses, a woman hanging laundry in the warm afternoon light, and a cluster of white geese drifting lazily along the mill stream — this is "Picturesque Dorset: The Roman Bridge, Preston, Weymouth," published by Raphael Tuck & Sons in their celebrated "Oilette" series (Postcard 7700), printed in England by appointment to Their Majesties the King and Queen. Tuck's Oilette cards are among the most collectible of all British Edwardian postcards, renowned for their painterly watercolor reproductions; this example is a superb specimen, unused and in excellent condition, with the detailed publisher description on the reverse noting Preston's Roman pottery finds and its ancient one-arched bridge. A wonderful piece of English topographical and publishing history.