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From old football player photos to vintage boxing photographs - Vintage sports photos from Quirky Prints

Britain is the birthplace of many sports – including football, cricket, real tennis, rowing, tennis, golf and rugby. From old football player photos to vintage boxing photographs - Vintage sports photos from over the years offer an intriguing visual record of our love for all things sporting.

Sport offered a way of uniting communities and provided much needed recreation outside work. One intriguing thing about Vintage sports photos, is that they show us just how poorly equipped people were for their particular sport. Take skiing as an example. Think of all the high-tech and cutting-edge equipment we can choose from today and then look at the skis they had to use in the early 20th century! And compare modern day football with that of these vintage football shots and what about the wage difference?!

Recognising the appeal of these old sporting images, Quirky Prints decided to include a selection of them on their gallery of vintage photographs.

Their hunt for old black and white photographs and images took them to hundreds of antique shops, collectors’ fairs, vintage photograph dealers and specialists around England.

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 many old black and white, hand coloured and sepia photographs that were collected, was a selection of fascinating and often quite incredible Vintage sports photos!

Within the dedicated SPORT category on their website, Quirky Prints offers a selection of these unique vintage photographs. A daring duo of mountain climbers scale a crevasse using a ski as a makeshift bridge! Skiers have the ride of their lives, pulled along behind galloping horses, women play tennis in their traditional long dresses and proud football teams pose for the camera. All are captured in evocative colour or black and white photographic detail.

These old, forgotten, but charming vintage photographs, make stunning framed pictures. They become true fine art, which can be hung in our homes, or bought as original and unique gifts for friends. No matter that we know nothing of the people or places in these old photographs. They are moments frozen in time. These old pictures have their own exclusive 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 sports photos are all reproduced on finest grade, heavyweight fine art paper, to preserve all the fine detail and quality of the image. These Giclée prints 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. These are a very unusual interior design idea.

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 really Quirky in fact!

From old football player photos to vintage boxing photographs, besides Vintage sports photos, there are thirty-four other categories to choose from on the Quirky Prints website - from Agriculture to World War II – with literally 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.

From old football player photos to vintage boxing photographs, the result is a remarkable visual time capsule of years gone by. Within the collection of Vintage sports photos on the Quirky Prints Online Art Gallery, we can share the moments of sporting success enjoyed by generations in times gone by.