Nov 15, 2010 - Sale 2230

Sale 2230 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
FRANK G. JEFFERIES (DATES UNKNOWN) LONDON'S TRAMWAYS / FOR THE WEST END. 1931.
29 3/4x19 3/4 inches, 75 1/2x50 cm. Hill, Siffken & Co., Grafton Works, London.
Condition B+: pinholes in corners; creasing in wide margins; pencil number in lower left corner.
"These fine examples of poster art disappeared in 1933 when the council's tramways were merged into the newly formed London Passenger Transport Board. The LPTB under Franck Pick continued to issue many very fine examples of poster art, but these were in the format and style of the Underground poster and quite different from the LCCT's own distinctive poster style" (Tramway p. 11).