May 03, 2010 - Sale 2213

Sale 2213 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
E. A. FAIRHURST (DATES UNKNOWN) OVER A CENTURY PROGRESS FROM THE "ROCKET" TO THE "PRINCESS ROYAL." 1933.
39 1/2x49<3/4> inches, 100x126 1/2 cm. S. C. Allen, London.
Condition A-: repaired tears at edges.
"Poster produced for London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) to promote progres made by the railway. The poster shows an illustration of the Princes Royal steam locomotive superimposed on diagrams of earlier locomotives (including Robert Stephenson's 'Rocket' of 1830). The Princes Royal clas of locomotive was a 4 cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific, designed by Sir William Stanier (LMS Chief Mechanical Engineer) and introduced in 1933 for use on expres pasenger services" (Science & Society Picture Library). very rare