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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MIDLAND RAILWAY. 41x29 3/4 inches. Courmont, Paris. Condition B+: minor restoration along sharp vertical and horizontal folds;creases in margins. A woman elegantly bundled up in red and blue against the Channel winds is standing on a yellow and red map of the French shore poised, with all of her brown luggage, to make a trip to England, spread out like a railway map in front of her; lettering in orange. The concept of the a woman standing on a map seems to have been first used by the Midland Railway just before the turn of the century. H. Gray designed a poster, circa 1899, almost identical to this one, which was clearly so popular that it was reused by the railway with slight variations over the years. Both posters employ the clever, self referential concept of a luggage label bearing the name of the printer, Courmont.
