Dec 17, 2014 - Sale 2371

Sale 2371 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
GUSTAVE FRAIPOINT (1849-1923) CHEMIN DE FER DU NORD / ANGLETERRE. 1899.
41 3/4x29 3/4 inches, 106x75 1/2 cm. F&M. Moreau, Paris.
Condition A- / B+: tears and repaired tears at edges; creases and abrasions in margins and image; light time-staining at edges; tape on verso; horizontal fold. Paper.
"A poster for the chemins de fer du Nord, showing the routes of all the trains including the Nord Express, leaving Paris to the North, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Russia, Japan and China" (Wagons-Lits p. 93). This is the version before the overprinting of the various train timetables was added. Wagons-Lits 86, Tourism 22.