?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
HARRY WHINCAP (DATES UNKNOWN)
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY / IN THE CORNISH RIVIERA. Circa 1930.
39½x24 inches, 100¼x61 cm. London. Condition B: replaced losses, overpainting and abrasions in top and bottom margins; side margins trimmed off; creases, abrasions and rippling in image.
Tregenna Castle was built in 1774 as a 12-bedroom private home for a wealthy Cornishman. After passing through a few hands over the course of a century, the castle was purchased by the Great Western Railway in 1895 and remodeled into a luxury hotel. With the expansion of the railways throughout England, it became customary for the rail companies to establish their own destination hotels by the sea. Wealthy guests were met by bus from the station, which can be seen in this poster, parked by the entrance. Ownership of the hotel changed multiple times in the 20th century, before eventually becoming a family-owned estate and hotel, as it remains today. Rare.
