The Cup Winners’ Postcard, 1913
postcard publishers, 1913
$150
Print check at 18 x 12 in: 178 dpi, good. Trimmed 1.3% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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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.
- Maker
- postcard publishers
- Date
- 1913
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Unknown publisher, 1913 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Unknown publisher, 1913 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01096
| Picture | 18 x 12 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 19.6 x 13.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 268 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.3% |
| 18 x 12 in | 178 | Good | Trimmed 1.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 134 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 89 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,262 x 2,147 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 52, lights 254 of 255; 6.9% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.53
- Notes
- Pure white on 7% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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