Grand Match de Football, 21 November 1921

A jobbing-printer match bill from the Moselle, at nearly thirteen thousand pixels.

Work: letterpress match bill, 21 November 1921
Maker: Jobbing printer, Sarreguemines
Date: 1921
Ground: Sarreguemines, Moselle
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Jobbing printer, Sarreguemines, 1921 · Wikimedia Commons

A poster is a hierarchy of shouts, well arranged.

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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

A letterpress match bill for a fixture at Sarreguemines on the 21st of November, 1921, printed by a local jobbing shop in the Moselle — a region that had been German until three years earlier and was learning to be French again, in French, on a poster advertising an English game. The typography is the whole pleasure: the fat wood-letter GRAND MATCH, the hierarchy of sizes doing the work an image would do now, the exclamation marks earned. The Bibliothèque nationale scanned it at close to thirteen thousand pixels. A poster is a hierarchy of shouts, arranged by someone with a good ear.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

Grand Match de Football, 21 November 1921, 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.

Grand Match de Football, 21 November 1921 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of letterpress match bill, 21 November 1921 — Jobbing printer, Sarreguemines, 1921 — from the copy held by Jobbing printer, Sarreguemines, 1921 · 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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