Before Highbury: Powell of Woolwich Arsenal and one of the earliest Arsenal cards – if not the earliest
The Object This illustrated, shield-shaped football card depicts Powell of Woolwich Arsenal and dates to the early 1890s, a period when Arsenal was still establishing itself as a professional Football League club. Issued by J. Baines of Bradford, the card belongs to the earliest phase of football collecting, before the widespread introduction of mass-produced tobacco […]
