English Novelty Mailer.

Very clever, those English. An English Bulldog though would have been more appropriate:







12 Southampton scenes under the flap

All well and good but black scotch terriers were renowned in history for bringing bad luck. Just kidding!

From what I gather Valentine's was a publisher based in Dundee Scotland

Boy, do I remember those from my childhood. Almost every Dutch town sold one of these in their tourism office. I wonder if IkeyPikey collects these?

Peter

This souvenir letter card of mine is a fore-runner of the Good Luck one and it dates from 1938. A concertina of 6 photo views of (named town) was attached to the inside and the back of those views could be written on if required at Letter Rate cost of 1½d. Otherwise the card could be sent unsealed and unwritten for a halfpenny.



The 1950 Southampton card is obviously Scottish in manufacture with the tartan bow, the white heather and the Scottie dog... just the named town/city changes to suit the locations.