?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
NORMAN KEENE (DATES UNKNOWN)
FESTINIOG RAILWAY. Circa 1920s.
40 1/4x24 1/4 inches, 102 1/4x61 1/2 cm. Wyman & Sons, Ltd., London. Condition B+ / A-: small replaced losses at edges; minor repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image; minor creases and abrasions in image.
Founded in 1832, the Festiniog (more commonly spelled Ffestiniog) Railway Company in Wales is still in operation today, making it the world's oldest surviving rail company. The approximately 13 and a half mile-long, narrow-gauge Festinog Railway, is situated in current-day Snowdonia National Park, in Northern Wales. The railway began its service to help transport slate and rock from quarries to the Welsh coast. Norman Keene was a British illustrator and poster artist, who also designed war posters, advertising for Shell, at least one theater poster, and an image for Kodak featuring the "Kodak Girl."
