A "Private Post Card" postmarked Aug 26, 1908, Tavistock. The Pugh Mfg Co, Toronto, numbered To. 266-1 8214.
A distinctive feature of most Pugh cards is the numbering. Many bear a numeric designation in the form of a 3-digit number followed by a hyphen (or slash) and then another number. This numerical designation is sometimes preceded by the letters “To.” Or “T.O.”, the significance of which is not known.
People were demanding a higher quality and that quality was available in England and Germany. There they had developed process called collotype printing. It is similar in a way to halftone printing but it was a gelatin-based process that gave much finer grains than the metallic silver grains of the halftone and involved a chemical process utilizing the known repulsion between the oils of the ink and the water on the plate.
In an age where everyone was sending postcards, local organizations could arrange to purchase a set of postcards from a publisher and then sell them as a fund-raising project. This was a popular thing to do for churches and that is why a lot of early postcards feature churches.
There is another postcard with the exact same view (obviously based on the same photograph) published in 1910 by Rumsey and Co Ltd of Toronto and coloured.