Postcard Mariánské Lázně, Karolina Spring

Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons; Description: Obverse: "MARIENBAD, FERDINADSBRUNNEN", view from Cross Spring, Colonnade at the site of the original pavilion Karolina Spring, later Ferdinand Spring was brought to this place from Úšovice; Reverse: "TUCK´S  POSTKARTE."and mark: "rounded arms with crown of a prince, a lion and an unicorn", on the left edge of the publisher's name and: "OILETTE" Serie "Marienbad" No. 699. 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.