Nov 23, 2021 - Sale 2589

Sale 2589 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

REGINALD GEO. PRAILL (1870-1959)

ON THE SUNNY SOUTH COAST / BRIGHTON RAILWAY. Circa 1920.


39 1/4x23 3/4 inches, 99 3/4x60 1/4 cm. The Avenue Press, Ltd., London.
Condition B: replaced losses at edges; repaired tears, creases, abrasions and restoration at edges, in image and along vertical and horizontal folds; bleach spots in upper image; pin holes at edges.

Praill, an illustrator and poster artist, designed a small handful of travel posters and a few images for Britain during the First World War. The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (referred to as the Brighton Railway) operated until 1922, when it merged with other companies to become the Southern Railway. Rare. We could find no other copies at auction. Not in Furness.