Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
CHARLES HENRY JAMES MAYO (1907-1982) SPEED TO THE WEST. 1939.
40x50 1/2 inches, 101 1/2x128 1/4 cm. Jordison & Co. Ltd., London & Middlesbrough.
Condition A- / A: small repaired tears and restoration in margins.
"Mayo had joined the Publicity Department [of Great Western] in 1932 and was responsible for producing artwork for posters and book covers. In 1939 he produced the most famous Great Western poster of all in Speed to the West," a striking view from ground level of a 'King' class locomotive on a West of England holiday express" (Railway pp. 9-10). Le Train p. 63, Railway p. 52.