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Vintage photographs of old Egypt from Quirky Prints

Egypt – its civilization and its architecture – have been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. It is most clearly displayed with the vintage photographs of old Egypt that still exist, taken by plucky travellers in times gone by.

The drama and colour of the country, with its dramatic pyramids and bold traditional costumes, amaze and fascinate us as much today, as they did a century ago.

When the team at Quirky Prints set about researching and finding vintage photographs for their newly launched website, their hunt for old images took them to hundreds of antique shops, collectors’ fairs, vintage photograph dealers and specialists around the country.

The resulting collection is literally thousands of handpicked vintage photographs, on all manner of topics, including landscapes, people, shops, far-flung civilizations and transport from years ago. Among the many old black and white photographs that were collected, were some breathtaking and intriguing vintage photographs of old Egypt from many years ago.

Within the EGYPT category on their website, Quirky Prints offers a selection of these unique vintage photographs. There are of course, images of the amazing pyramids. Even more are the vintage photographs showing early 20th century travellers – including women dressed in their large dresses – gamely clambering up the sides of the monolithic structures under the scorching Egyptian sun! There are sphinxes and pharaohs, camels in colourful harness and Egyptian characters in their traditional nomadic dress. All are captured in evocative sepia or black and white photographic detail.

These old, forgotten, but delightful vintage photographs of old Egypt, make stunning framed pictures. They become unique artworks, which can be hung in our homes, or bought as original and imaginative gifts for friends. No matter we know nothing of the people or places in these old photographs. They are moments frozen in time, pictures with their own unique story to tell. They have as much meaning and resonance with us today, as they had for those involved in creating the vintage photograph all those years ago.

The original vintage photographs of old Egypt are reproduced on finest grade, heavyweight art paper, to preserve all the fine detail and quality of the image. They are then enlarged and presented in contemporary metal frames, which have been carefully chosen both to enhance the images and to complement any style of home decor.

For anyone who is completely uninspired and bored with the same prints offered for sale in the high street – those thousands of similar pictures that appear in thousands of homes across the UK - Quirky Prints offers something new, some different. Something Quirky in fact!

There are thirty-two other categories to choose from on the Quirky Prints website – from Agriculture to World Wars I & II – a collection of thousands of images taken from original vintage photographs. Each of the old black and white photographs has been carefully restored to remove any damage, but preserve the originality of the image. Others have been painstakingly hand coloured or had their original colours restored.

The result is a remarkable visual time capsule of years gone by. Within the collection of vintage photographs of old Egypt on the Quirky Prints website, we can see share a glimpse of the unique landscape and culture of Egypt, as it was seen by those enterprising travellers of years gone by, who preserved all they saw in these beautiful vintage photographs.