Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
FRANK NEWBOULD (1887-1951) SWIFT / WORLD'S BEST CYCLES. Circa 1935.
59 1/4x39 inches, 150 1/2x99 cm. Chorley & Pickersgill, Leeds.
Condition A- / B+: soft vertical and horizontal folds; minor abrasions in image.
Frank Newbould did extensive work for the London Underground, London & North Eastern Railway, the Great Western Railway, the Cunard Line and the Orient Line. During the Second World War he designed posters for the British Government. Throughout his career he designed very few commercial posters. rare