Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FRANK NEWBOULD (1887-1950) "THE SILVER JUBILEE" / BRITAIN'S FIRST STREAMLINE TRAIN. 1935.
29 3/4x18 1/2 inches, 75 1/2x47 cm. The Baynard Press, London.
Condition B+: slight staining at edges; minor foxing in image; creases in margins and image; pin holes at edges. Paper.
The Silver Jubilee was the LNER's first streamlined train, followed soon after by the Coronation. "These trains, with their own locomotives and carriages, were highly distinctive and extremely popular. They generated an enormous amount of publicity material, including many posters" (Railway pp. 25-26). Railway p. 25, Furness vol. 2 p. 233.