Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
TOM GILFILLAN (1932-1953) SCOTLAND / IT'S HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS.
38 1/2x49 1/2 inches, 97 3/4x125 3/4 cm. John Horn Limited, Glasgow.
Condition B+: repaired tears in margins, some affecting text; restored losses, repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds.
It should be noted that while this has the appearance of a railway poster, it is actually advertising the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry service. Gilfillan designed about half a dozen posters for the LMS Railway. Art for All p. 153, Furness vol. 1, p. 113.