Baines Shield Cards (framed flight)
J. Baines Ltd., Bradford, 1880s–1900s
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyBefore stickers, before cigarette cards: John Baines of Bradford printed boyhood itself. From the 1880s his shield-shaped chromolithograph cards — every club a coat of arms in a boy’s pocket — were traded, flicked, and treasured across the industrial north by the first generation to grow up with the game. The heraldry-shaped die cut made supporters of schoolboys; collecting is the first form of supporting. Sold here as the flight — six cards framed together — because the set is the product: no single shield carries what a wall of them does.
- Maker
- J. Baines Ltd., Bradford
- Date
- 1880s–1900s
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- J. Baines Ltd., Bradford, 1891 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- J. Baines Ltd., Bradford, 1891 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01078
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 | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 21 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 550 x 632 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 0, lights 217 of 255; 0% clipped light, 33.2% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 43.66
- Notes
- Shadows clip on 33% of the image: the darkest areas print as solid black
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
- A plain margin is part of the file (4% of an edge): it prints as part of the picture
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