Sports Prints: Newport Polo, Sailing America’s Cup & More!

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Sporting Prints, Engravings & Lithographs Sailing

Our antique engravings & lithographs of sports subjects come from early Illustrated Newspapers, including Harper’s Weekly and other sources. Our antique sport prints are authentic, guaranteed to be more than 100 years old. Inexpensive, decorative and historic, pieces from over 100 years ago. $125-$225 each. oldprint@verizon.net.

A Regatta - Rounding the Light-Ship, July 30, 1881.
The First Race for the "America's" Cup, September 7 - The "Mayflower" Crossing the Line a Winner, September 18, 1886.
The Sloop Yachts "Puritan" and "Priscilla" of Boston and New York, August 29, 1885.
The Steam Yacht "Stilletto," With a Record of Twenty-Nine Miles in One Hour and Seventeen Minutes, June 20, 1885.
The Race Between Pilot-Boat "Hesper" and Fishing Schooner "Fredonia," Off Boston Harbor, October 5, 1889.
The Trial Yacht Races - "Changing the Topsails." September 4, 1886.
Exciting Movements in the Third and Decisive Race fire the America's Cup, November 4, 1899.
Saturday Afternoon on the Harlem River, June 28, 1879.
The British Cutter Yacht "Genesta," Challenger for the "America's" Cup, June 13, 1885.
The June Races of the New York and Seawanhaka Yacht Clubs, 1889.
The "Livonia" and Yachting-At the Helm, July 15, 1871.
The Yacht Race - A Sketch from the Deck of a Competing Yacht, August 10, 1872.
Yacht Club Houses, May 14, 1887.
Racing Sloop Yachts Shortening Before A Squall, September 3, 1887.
The Coming Anglo-American Yacht-Race: Arrival of the "Shamrock in New York Harbour, September 9,1899.
The Contest for Yachting Honors, 1899.
Harper's Weekly front page, Captain Lattamore, December, 9, 1893.
The Shamrock II in American Waters, c.1900.
Watching the Yacht-Race, 1897.
Aboard the Cup-Defender "Columbia": Drilling the Crew- Taking in the Spinnaker, Showing How the Hatches Are Used to Stow Away Sail, c.1900.
Captain Haff Drilling the Crew for the "Defender" On Board the "Colonia." c.1900.
The Coming Contest for the America's Cup, 1895.
America's Cup Defender, the "Columbia," October 21, 1899.
The great Yacht Contest - A Close Race to the First Mark in Windward, 1901.

Sports Prints of Sailing & America’s Cup, drove newspaper subsciptions.

These antique prints are very old engravings and lithographs pertaining to sailing and America’s Cup Racing, which was hosted in Newport RI for decades. Our newspaper records, were produced close to or over 100 years ago, depicting events at the times they were happening. 

Some of the antique sports prints come from early magazines. Others were elaborate, pleasing to the eye, decorative illustrations for newspapers. These specifically printed at one time, to document the event. Early newspapers of the 1800’s, such as Harper’s Weekly & Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Decorative, exciting sports prints, sold more subsciptions to early American followers of: America’s Cup Sailing. Many are boxwood engravings that were easily engraved with burins and printed in black over 100 years ago… Around 1895 the change of to photographically printed, and are called halftones.

Sports Prints: Crew & Sculling

Sports… CREW! Sculling… Great old crew prints! Great old crew print Outstanding wood engravings from 19th Century illustrated newspapers 22×34″ $200. each. Click here to contact us.

6872 Great old crew print 22x34"
Great old crew print 22x34"
Great old crew print 22x34"

Sports: Golf Repro Set of 5

Sports… Old golf prints are so hard to find…  hence, I offer these Golf Repros.  These are hand-colored reproductions of old golfing prints. Each piece measures 11×17″ and has been professionally water-colored. Sold in a set 5, $350.

Golf Repro Hand colored
Golf Repro Hand colored
Golf Repro Hand colored reproduction. 11x17" 45.
Golf Repro Hand colored reproduction. 11x17" 45.
Golf Repro Hand colored reproduction. 11x17" 45.

Sports! Football! Baseball! Vintage engravings, lithographs

Sports fans…  Great OLD football and baseball prints…

c. 1920 Baseball Ad @ 10x16" $45.
Old Baseball Life Magazine front cover @ 10x16" $45.
c. 1920 Baseball Ad @ 10x16" $45.
Old football front cover of Harpers Weekly @ 11x16" $75.
Old fruit crate label Safe Hit Baseball @ 5x*" $25.
old front cover from Saturday Evening Post Football c. 1920 $75.

Sports: Football and Baseball Restrikes:

Sports: Tennis Antique Sporting Prints.

Lady Tennis Players,  enjoy these old women’s tennis prints…

6863 Antique Tennis Print. Female Athlete! @11x17" c.1902 $85.
6864 Antique Tennis Print @ 11x16" $85.

Sports: Tennis Restrikes

Sports!!! Old Sailing Prints from a variety of early illustrated newspapers from the mid to late 1800’s up till about 1910. Old sport & sporting prints; old engravings of crew, bicycles, & antique baseball prints! Old tennis & golf prints. Our, antique lithographs engravings, are antiques, over 100 years old. old engravings and lithographs of sporting subjects. Antique sports engravings such as old baseball prints. On our website, you can decorate with, antique tennis artwork from the 1800’s. Women’s sports. We have antique football prints and even old bicycle engravings! College competition crew and rowing!

These antique prints are old engravings and lithographs pertaining to athletics that were produced close to or over 100 years ago. Some came from early magazines, others were elaborate illustrations for early newspapers of the 1800’s such as Harper’s Weekly. The latter are boxwood engraving that were easily engraved with burins and printed in black over 100 years ago…

Sports – Sporting prints including antique bicycles, crew, tennis, baseball and football! We have some material pertaining to women in sports. We have antique women’s tennis prints from the 1800’s!  We have antique football prints, and even old bicycle engravings!  College competition crew and rowing prints!  Winter sports prints from Iditarod to ice skating!  

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