Nov 15, 2010 - Sale 2230

Sale 2230 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FREDA BEARD (DATES UNKNOWN) LONDON'S TRAMWAYS / SHOP EARLY. 1930.
29 3/4x19 3/4 inches, 75 1/2x50 cm. Waterlow & Sons, London.
B+ / B: loss in upper right corner; pinholes and stains in corners; creases in wide side margins; pencil number in lower left corner.
"Unlike the Underground posters which rarely showed a bus or Tube train, the LCCT posters often included a rightly lit tramcar, no doubt to encourage Londoners to choose this means of transport over those of its competitors" Tramway p.122.