DESIGNER UNKNOWN PRINETTI STUCCHI MILANO Circa 1895 54x39½

Sale 2643 - Lot 10

Unsold

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

"PRINETTI STUCCHI" / MILANO. Circa 1895.

54x39 1/2 inches, 137x100 1/4 cm. Wild & Ci., [Milan].
Condition B-: losses in margins; repaired tears, large replaced losses with overpainting, water stains and abrasions in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds and seam. Two-sheets. Mounted on thin paper.

Giulio Prinetti and Augusto Stucchi began manufacturing sewing machines in 1883. In 1892 they began to make bicycles and by 1899 they had branched out into motorized bicycles. In 1901, the company changed its name to Stucchi, as Prinetti left the firm to join the Italian government.

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Property of Penn State's Palmer Museum of Art, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund.