This undated postcard featuring a young Thomas Beecham was produced before he became Sir Thomas Beecham in 1916. The photograph was taken by Dover Street Studios, one of the leading firms of its day to specialize in theatrical portraiture and active between 1906 and 1912. The Augener Ltd. Company that distributed the card was a music publishing firm founded in 1855 as “Augener and Company”, changing its name to Augener Ltd. after a 1904 business merger.