Oct 26, 2017 - Sale 2459

Sale 2459 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 1,235
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) AT THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE / SOUTH KENSINGTON. 1923.
40x24 1/4 inches, 101 1/2x61 1/2 cm. Vincent Brooks Day and Son Ltd., London.
Condition B+: expertly-repaired tears at edges into image; replaced losses and overpainting at edges.
"This poster . . . marked the re-opening of the Land Transport Galleries at the Science Museum in 1923. In that year the Underground presented to the Science Museum its first electric locomotive which had been built for the City & South London Railway" (Pleasure Trips p. 57). Kauffer 56, Pleasure Trips p. 57, Art for All 135.