?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DESIGNER UNKNOWN MONTEREY PENINSULA / SOUTHERN PACIFIC. Circa 1925. 22 3/4x16 1/8 inches, 50 3/4x40 1/8 cm. Condition B+: minor repaired tears and abrasions at edges; creases at edges and in image. An early photograph and rare poster of Pebble Beach's famed "Lone Cypress." "The Pebble Beach Company was originally created as the Del Monte Properties Company in 1919 by Samuel Finley Brown Morse . . . In the early 1900s, Morse was appointed manager for the Pacific Improvement Company, an affiliate of the vast Southern Pacific Railroad, which had extensive real estate holdings on the Monterey Peninsula, and in 1919 he formed the Del Monte Properties Company and acquired those holdings, which included the Del Monte Forest and the popular Hotel Del Monte (now the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Beach). The Monterey Peninsula was given the sobriquet "the circle of enchantment" by John Steinbeck.
