Feb 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2695 -

Sale 2695 - Lot 69

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

FRITZ SCHÖN (1871-?)

NORICUM - KETTENLOS. 1900.

36½x28¾ inches, 92¾x73 cm. Aktiengesellschaft für Kunstdruck, Niedersedlitz.
Condition B+ / B: repaired tear through lower right image; minor repaired tears, small losses and repaired pin holes in margins; horizontal fold; slight darkening in image. Mounted on Chartex.

The city of Graz (Austria) became a center of industrialism and manufacturing at the end of the 19th century, with the founding of the Puch bicycle and automobile factory, major breweries, a railcar factory and a shoe factory. Cless & Plessing, founded in 1898, only produced bicycles for a short period of time, with Noricum being one of their bikes. Heinrich Cless was a designer in the railroad industry, and Rudolf Plessing came from the famous Meteor bicycle company. Because they only produced chainless models, and the demand for motorcycles and cars far outnumbered that for bicycles, the company ended production in 1904.
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