Nymphe, Sloop
This card is from a series published by the Toronto Lithographing Co. Ltd. that included the Benbow, Calliope, Nymphe & Terrible. They each feature a bulldog on a Union Jack with the text “What We Have We’ll Hold”.
From Wikipedia, “HMS Nymphe was an Amazon-class sloop, of the Royal Navy, built at the Deptford Dockyard and launched on 24 November 1866. She served in the East Indies and Australia, and was sold in 1884.”
This postcard has been overprinted with
WISHING YOU
A Merry Christmas
AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Toronto Litho Co. Ltd. had used this overprint on a number of different postcard designs for the Christmas of 1902, but, on some series, was also used in later years.
Below, the reverse of the card
postally unused
