Oct 10 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2681 -

Sale 2681 - Lot 125

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

MOY THOMAS (DATES UNKNOWN)

NEW YORK TO LONDON / GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Circa 1927.

40x25 inches, 101½x63½ cm.
Condition A-: expert overpainting in margins; repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image.

"The Great Western Railway of England as originally conceived was intended as one of the links in a chain of communication between England and America. Brunel, its Engineer . . . designed the first steamship for the transatlantic service which should complete the sea link between New York and London" (GWR of England book, 1927). The King George V was the "most powerful passenger engine of its time in Great Britain. This locomotive has been designed to uphold traditions and justify to the American traveler in England to-day Charles Dickens' claims for its railways in 1842" (ibid.).

Moy-Thomas designed one other known poster, for The Canadian Pacific.
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