York | Stonegate Street Scene | Tuck Postcard SP25

Vintage illustrated postcard captioned “Stonegate, York,” published by Raphael Tuck & Sons as an Oilette Regd postcard, No. 7988, York Series IV.

Scene Details:

• View along Stonegate with half-timbered buildings, projecting upper storeys, and shopfronts lining the street.
• A loaded cart stands in the roadway, with pedestrians on the pavements.
• A woman and child appear in the foreground beside the shops on the right.
• Printed reverse text describes Stonegate's old-fashioned half-timbered architecture.
• Raphael Tuck & Sons publisher imprint and “Printed in England” on the reverse.

Postal Markings:

• Divided reverse headed “Tuck's Post Card,” with royal appointment emblem and printed stamp-box trademark.
• No postage stamp, postal cancellation, handwritten message, or address visible.

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