Nov 15, 2010 - Sale 2230

Sale 2230 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DESIGNER UNKNOWN TRAFOI / PASSO DELLO STELVIO. Circa 1920.
39 1/4x26 3/4 inches, 100x68 cm. L Salomone, Rome.
Condition A- / B+: minor restoration in corners and margins.
Situated at the base of the Ortler Mountain, Trafoi is one of the terminus towns of the Stelvio Pass. The Pass was constructed through the mountains by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in order to make a route through to Lombardy (which was then an Austrian province.) Travel Italia p. 49