A wall of churning green sea rears up against the Hastings seafront in this vivid hand-colored Edwardian card — spray exploding skyward as a great wave curls just yards from the promenade's iron railings, with the town's Victorian terraces and a distant pier pavilion barely visible through the white chaos of foam. Hastings, the East Sussex resort forever linked with 1066, drew Edwardian tourists who thrilled at the drama of autumn storms, and publishers on the Continent — particularly in Saxony — cornered the market on these richly tinted scenic views, their chromolithographic presses producing colors no British printer could match at the price. The card was never posted, leaving the image crisp and unfaded, a perfect specimen of the pre-WWI golden age of the picture postcard when collecting "deltiology" was a national craze.