Aug 05, 2021 - Sale 2577

Sale 2577 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

N. CRAMER ROBERTS (DATES UNKNOWN)

DUNGENESS / BY THE ROMNEY, HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH RAILWAY. 1928.


39 3/4x25 inches, 101x63 1/2 cm. Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son, [London.]
Condition A: minor restoration at edges.

One of two posters the artist designed for the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RHDR), the other featuring stylish passengers boarding a train. "The RHDR was founded in Kent in 1927 as a mainline railway in miniature and became known as 'the World's Smallest Public Railway'" (http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/). Furness vol. 5 p. 113.