Jan 30, 2003 - Sale 1958

Sale 1958 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HY. MAYER SCRIBNER'S APRIL. 1896.
18x13 1/2 inches.
Condition B+: restored losses in margins.
A Roman soldier in brown, orange and white against a black and tan background. Considered an Olympic poster as the magazine was writing about the first modern Olympiad in Athens, and the image is clearly one of a competitor and the flame.