Footballers of the Edwardian Series (framed flight)

The Edwardian professionals in chromolith miniature — arms folded, hair parted, immortal at two inches tall.

Work: tobacco card lithography
Maker: tobacco card lithographers
Date: c. 1908
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Ogden's Ltd. (George Arents Collection, NYPL), 1906 · Wikimedia Commons

Period crests or marks appear inside this historic work. They are reproduced solely as part of the historical document, under the house’s historical-document doctrine — nothing modern is used or sold.

Fame used to fit in a waistcoat pocket.

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Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

The card era made the players famous faces before the newsreels could. Tucked into tobacco packets from the 1890s, the footballer card put the Edwardian professionals into every waistcoat pocket in Britain — arms folded, hair parted, posed like monuments to themselves, immortal at two inches tall. The lithography is jewel work: full colour, hairline registration, a portrait miniature produced by the million. Fame used to fit in a waistcoat pocket; here it is framed as a flight, because the album page — not the single card — is how the era actually looked.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

Footballers of the Edwardian Series (framed flight), 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.

Footballers of the Edwardian Series (framed flight) framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of tobacco card lithography — tobacco card lithographers, c. 1908 — from the copy held by Ogden's Ltd. (George Arents Collection, NYPL), 1906 · 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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