A Gift Edit
The Wedding Fixture Bill
The day as a letterpress match bill — kick-off 4 o’clock, Saturday, forever.
The period match bills and programmes are the ancestors of this house’s Fixture Bill commission: your own date — a wedding, a reunion, a retirement — set in wood type as the fixture it was. Start from the originals here, or go straight to the commission and set your own.
The pieces
jobbing printers · c. 1910
A Letterpress Fixture Bill
Saturday, set in wood type: the kick-off hour, the admission price, the exclamation points earned.
Kick-off is the oldest deadline that makes people happy.
programme printers for the Empire Stadium · 1923
The First Wembley Programme, 1923
The programme of the White Horse Final — sold to a crowd that could not open its arms to read it.
The ephemera outlived the emergency.