Antique & Vintage Postcards

A red-bearded Highlander in full tartan regalia pushes a baby carriage through sunny Dunfermline — at least, that's the joke: the caption reads "The sun is out to-day / At Dunfermline," a wry dig at Scotland's famously grey skies. Illustrated by L. Biggar in a lively caricature style, the kilted figure sports a blue bonnet with a red pompom, a sporran, and white brogues, while the rosy-cheeked infant in the pram clutches a rattle and wears a miniature tam. This is a "Pocket Novelty Card" — a concertina pull-out souvenir — with a cascade of small photographic views tucked inside: Dunfermline High Street and The Cross, the Bandstand at Pittencrieff Glen, Pittencrieff House, and Andrew Carnegie's birthplace, all evocative street-level snapshots of Edwardian Dunfermline. Carnegie himself was born in this Fife town and later gifted Pittencrieff Park to its citizens, making these views especially resonant for collectors of Scottish social history.