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Vintage patriotic pictures From Quirky Prints

British and proud of it! Take a look at the vintage patriotic pictures on the Quirky Prints website and this is the message that comes across loud and clear!

With our love of the monarchy, (perhaps more so in times past than today!), and the Dunkirk spirit that saw us through two World Wars, we British have always been a patriotic lot. While we are happy to malign our own efforts and performance on the world stage, it’s often a case of woe betide other nationalities, who dare to cast critical comments in our direction!

To satisfy our patriotic streak, the team at Quirky Prints decided to seek out vintage patriotic pictures for their 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 hand picked vintage photographs, on all manner of topics, including landscapes, people, shops, far-flung civilizations and transport from years ago. And among the numerous hand coloured sepia photographs and old black and white photographs that were collected, was some evocative vintage patriotic pictures from years gone by.

Within the dedicated PATRIOTIC category on their website, Quirky Prints offers a selection of these unique framed vintage photographs. A fighter pilot poses in the cockpit with a unusual co-pilot – the good old British bulldog! Trams are decked with flags and bunting in a celebration of peace and victory and street parades and ‘welcome home’ banners mark the end of war and a mood of British pride and patriotism. All are captured in evocative colour or black and white photographic detail.

These old, forgotten, but delightful vintage photographs, make stunning framed pictures. They become unique fine art prints, which can be hung in our homes, or bought as original and unusual gifts for friends. No matter that we know nothing of the people or places in these old photographs. They are moments frozen in time. Rare pictures with their own unique story to tell. And 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 patriotic pictures is reproduced using the Giclee method on finest grade, heavyweight fine 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 War II – with literally thousands of images taken from original framed 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 patriotic pictures on the Quirky Prints website, we can share those feelings of British pride that united previous generations all those years ago!