Oct 15, 2020 - Sale 2547

Sale 2547 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

100 YEARS OF THE RAILROAD / BALTIMORE & OHIO CENTENARY PAGEANT. 1927.


40x26 inches, 101 1/2x66 cm. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia.
Condition A-: repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image; archival tape on verso; scratch in upper right image. Paper.

"As noted in Railway Age, Baltimore & Ohio commissioned four posters to announce its centenary pageant in 1927. The most effective designs compared the line's first locomotive, tiny Tom Thumb, to the modern Pacific-class President Washington" (Zega p. 83).