The Cup Winners’ Postcard, 1913

The team as a picture postcard — Edwardian football’s answer to the broadcast.

Work: picture postcard
Maker: postcard publishers
Date: 1913
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Unknown publisher, 1913 · Wikimedia Commons

The postman was the first football broadcaster.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

Before the wireless carried a result, the postcard carried the team. The picture postcard was Edwardian Britain’s fastest medium — posted at noon, delivered by teatime — and the football postcard was how a Cup win actually travelled: the winning eleven, the trophy, the halfpenny stamp. This 1913 card of the English Cup winners is the genre complete — part team photograph, part souvenir, part news bulletin, sold outside the ground and mailed across the country by the thousand. Scanned at over three thousand pixels wide, it keeps the halftone screen of the original press plate. The postman was the first football broadcaster.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

The Cup Winners’ Postcard, 1913, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Cup Winners’ Postcard, 1913 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of picture postcard — postcard publishers, 1913 — from the copy held by Unknown publisher, 1913 · Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
Printed faithful to that source scan — restore honestly, disclose always. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the piece you receive is the image as it survives, halftone grain honored as history, not damage.
Printed to order on museum-grade cotton-rag stock with pigment inks — the pairing is rated 100+ years.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the period’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed editions ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our pieces cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the maker’s hand is visible — the linework, the halftone grain, the lettering — on materials made to outlast their owner.

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