Description
A high-resolution downloadable scan of an original waxed paper handbill for an auction held at the Swan Inn, Meltham, on 27 April 1843.
The Swan Inn (previously known as the Shoulder of Mutton) is believed to have belonged to at least four generations of the Garlick family, who were butchers, brewers and innkeepers. John Garlick (1801-1856), who is named on the poster, was forced to sell the inn after being declared an insolvent debtor in October 1846.
Please note that this is a historic item and the may show typical signs of age, including small blemishes, creases, marks and stains. Wherever possible, obvious damage was sympathetically restored using Adobe Photoshop. Please examine the product images on this page carefully prior to ordering. In particular, the handbill appears to have been folded after printing as the ink has stained though to the over side.
The original handbill was scanned at 600 dots per inch (DPI) and is slightly larger than A3 paper size. The final full-sized image is 7,801 by 9,401 pixels (including a white border of approximately 200 pixels).
Once purchased, you will have access to the following files to download:
- Acrobat PDF (30MB) 8 bit colour (600 DPI)
- JPEG image (42MB) 16 bit colour (full size)
- JPEG image (9MB) 16 bit colour (resized to 50%)
- JPEG image (3MB) 16 bit colour (resized to 25%)
All JPEG images were saved with 3% compression to ensure minimal loss of quality. The files are stored in a ZIP archive to ensure that they download without error.
If you wish to print it out, it is recommended that you use the PDF file and have it professionally printed onto a sheet of A3 paper to retain the approximate dimensions of the original handbill.
Licensing
The downloadable files are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) licence. You may make use of the downloaded files for any non-commercial purpose permitted by the licence, e.g.:
- You may print off an unlimited number of copies of the downloaded items, but you may not sell these or in any other way profit from them.
- You can upload any of the files to your own non-commercial web site and make them freely available but you must provide suitable attribution (e.g. a web link back to the Huddersfield Exposed web site home page).
Allowable non-commercial purposes include private use, display at a free exhibition, a personal web site that does not generate income, and educational use. Prohibited commercial uses include uploading to a commercial web site and inclusion in non-free publications (such as a published book).
By ordering this item, you are agreeing to the above licensing conditions. If you have any questions relating to allowable use, please email shop@huddersfield.exposed before placing an order.
Sample
The following sample shows the quality and level of detail of the full-sized image.
