135 years old. This Fred Downer postcard from 1890 features in Gold! along with hundreds of other gems.
Residing in Watford Museum, the postcard is fading away to nothing, much of the ornate design already gone, just the ghostly images of the players and the more durable red ink surviving the punishing effects of light and time.
The subjects form the early part of that unbroken line that goes all the way back from 1881 to today. Not so much a different time as a different world, but still the same club.
