Postcard sent to a fictitious address that is partly made up from an old postmark
Bray sent this postcard to Ernest Arnold on 2nd February 1899 from Totnes having travelled, by train, from Shelley to Totnes, a distance of nearly 300 miles.
To make life difficult for the Post Office he created a ficitious address in Wakefield for Arnold basing it upon his actual address. To confuse matters further he glued on an old Gosport postmark as if it formed part of the address.
The card bears a Gosport postmark indicating that the Post Office had been fooled by the old Gosport mark.
The message on the reverse side is the proof that Bray had a tendency to throw his "to be found" rhyming cards out of the carriage window whilst passing through railway stations. It also records the fact that he was recuperating from some health issues.
