Postkarte Marienbad, Obere Kaiserstrasse mit Grandhotel Ott

Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons; Description: Obverse: "MARIENBAD, OBERE KAISERSTRASSE MIT GRAND HOTEL OTT", nowadays Hotel Pacifik (No. 84), Reverse: "TUCK´S  POSTKARTE."and mark: "rounded arms with crown of a prince, a lion and an unicorn", short address, used, without stamp, rounded sending postmark "MARIENBAD 1 29.V.18" on the left edge of the publisher's name, in the text field at the top a printed text with information about hotel Ott. Raphael Tuck & Sons was a business started by Raphael Tuck and his wife in Bishopsgate in the City of London on October 1866, selling pictures and greeting cards, and eventually selling postcards, the latter being the most successful. Their business was one of the most well known in the 'postcard boom' of the late 1800s and early 1900s.