Antique & Vintage Postcards

A horseman leads two handsome working horses — one bay, one grey — past a row of timber-framed and gabled Suffolk cottages draped in climbing plants, while a woman pauses at her front door and a child lingers further down the lane; the village of Kersey, its street curving gently away toward a distant arch, is bathed in soft Edwardian watercolour light that renders every mossy tile and lichen-crusted wall with loving precision. Part of Tuck's "Cottage Homes of England" Oilette series, this card celebrates Kersey — one of Suffolk's most photographed and painted villages, famous for its ford, its broad street of medieval weavers' cottages, and its air of determined resistance to the modern age. The card's own reverse text captures this sentiment perfectly, noting that Kersey "still retains much of its old-time charm … in spite of the all-pervading bicycle and motor." Signed by artist R.Q. (visible lower left of image), this is a fine example of the topographical art postcard at its Edwardian peak.