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Letter card with eight colour views of Bristol, including Clifton Suspension Bridge, with sheet at the rear for a letter. Postmarked 20 December 1905 and printed in Germany.

The print shows Brunel's 'suspended traveller'. This was a basket car which hung from an iron bar and was designed to help workmen cross the gorge during construction. On 27th September 1836, Brunel made the first successful crossing. Members of the public paid a fee to travel across. The suspended traveller was in place from 1836 to 1853.

Contains also printed 'Prospectus of Suspension Bridge...20 April 1831'.

Base of teapot is marked 'made in Germany'.