The Red Star Amical Club, 20 December 1908

Red Star before a 4–3 win at Saint-Cloud, with a future France captain at the end of the row.

Work: press photograph
Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1908
Ground: Saint-Cloud
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica · via Wikimedia Commons
Figure: Lucien Gamblin — publicity clear

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A future captain, at the end of the row.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

20 December 1908, the Red Star Amical Club before its match at Saint-Cloud against Stade Français, in the second series of the USFSA Paris championship. The caption, drawn from Le Matin of the next day, records that Red Star won four to three and names two of the players on the right: Lucien Gamblin and René Fenouillère. Red Star had been founded in Paris in 1897. Gamblin, eighteen here, would spend his whole career at the club, captain it to three straight Coupes de France from 1921 to 1923, and captain France after the war.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

The Red Star Amical Club, 20 December 1908, 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 Red Star Amical Club, 20 December 1908 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of press photograph — Agence Rol, 1908 — from the copy held by Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica · via 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.
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