H.M.S. MONARCH. Battleship, 22.500 tons. Cost £1,900,000; Length, 545 feet; Beam, 85 feet; Draught, 27 3/4 feet; Speed, 21 knots. Armed with Ten 13.5; Sixteen 4 in.; Four Small Quick Firing Guns, and Three Torpedo Tubes.

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H.M.S. MONARCH. Battleship, 22.500 tons. Cost £1,900,000; Length, 545 feet; Beam, 85 feet; Draught, 27 3/4 feet; Speed, 21 knots. Armed with Ten 13.5; Sixteen 4 in.; Four Small Quick Firing Guns, and Three Torpedo Tubes.

Publisher: Gale & Polden, Ltd., Printers (English)

British

Medium/Technique Photolithograph with blue embossment on cardstock.

Dimensions Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder

Accession Number2015.3470

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPostcards

DescriptionBack: undivided. Mint.
G&P BRITISH PRINTING.
Printed in England by Gale & Polden, Ltd., London, Aldershot and Portsmouth.
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InscriptionsCollector's stamp 1937

ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)