Antique Car Print - Early Auto Playing Card

Antique Car Print - Early Auto Playing CardTreasures from THE AUTOMOTIVE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with Treasures from THE AUTOMOTIVE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 24 x 18, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit. There are so many disparate sources of historic material we work from, and

Treasures from THE AUTOMOTIVE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with Treasures from THE AUTOMOTIVE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 18, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

There are so many disparate sources of historic material we work from, and there are just as many types of collectors and aficionados for each of those often oddball sub groups.

Playing card collectors are just as kooky as any other kind, and a friend who is bent that way and knows of our love of all sorts of early transportation related goodies was kind enough to share this amazing card from the very beginning of the 20th century, as well as several early bicycle themed cards and a surprisingly Steam Punk looking early zeppelin card.

The earliest autos were really nutty contraptions that broke down as often as they ran smoothly, and you had to be pretty damned devoted to fixing it at the drop of a hat. Knowing that, I'm always happy to see one roaring along as this one is doing... for the moment!

Make sure to eyeball our Devil Car here on our site as well. Same era, and devilish to boot!

Yes, I often dive head first into historic images with much stranger back stories where the more you know about it, the more layers of skin the onion has. This one has less bar story and more slap-a-grin-on-yer-face, and this tough and cynical world can always use a cuppa that.

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.