Aug 07, 2002 - Sale 1941

Sale 1941 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 518
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
CYCLES LEA ET NORMA. Circa 1928.
38 1/2x24 1/2 inches. La Lithographie Artistique.
Condition A.
When the two firms of Lea and Norma combined forces after World War I, they began producing some of the most admired racing frames of their day. Among their sponsored cyclists was the Dane, Willy Falck Hansen, seen here as an amateur in gray and black, riding his gray bicycle under the yellow and orange sky on his victory lap after winning the 1928 World Sprint Championships in Budapest; lettering in red.