ca. 1901-1910. Printed cotton handkerchief, 334 x 318mm, printed in blue with title banner at head, portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandre below, and surrounded by six futuristic vignettes; all edges hemmed, handkerchief somewhat browned and stained, though predominantly marginal, and with 3cm nick at upper margin, with evidence of previous folds and somewhat musty; still an appealing survivor. An attractive and so far unrecorded commemorative handkerchief, presumably issued shortly after the accession of Edward VII to the throne in 1901, and predicting a number of technological and scientific inventions. Six ‘revolutionary’ inventions are predicted through a series of vignettes that surround portraits of the King and Queen, and foresee a century in which steam trains will travel at 120 miles an hour; the ability to travel by air ships; wireless telegraphy in naval warfare; ‘Having a talk with the man in the moon’ (showing a wireless operator in one corner with the moon answering in another); ‘200 miles an hour by hydraulic power’ (showing an elevated railway with carriage suspended on either side from central rig); and a man driving a primitive steam car with the caption ‘Our message boy of the future’.