Feb 12, 2015 - Sale 2373

Sale 2373 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DESIGNER UNKNOWN [HANASE EIZAN KURAMA.] Circa 1925.
30x20 3/4 inches, 76 1/4x52 3/4 cm.
Condition B+: tears along metal strips affixed to top and bottom edge; horizontal stain; tears at edges; creases in image. Paper.
A rare and wonderful Japanese, Art Deco skiing poster advertising the Kurama Line of the Eizan Electric Railway Co., which ran from downtown Kyoto to Kurama, a suburb near Mt. Hiei.