?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
TOM PURVIS ( 1888-1959) MABLETHORPE & SUTTON-ON-SEA / L.N.E.R. Circa 1927. 39 7/8x49 3/4 inches. Dangerfield Printing Co., London. Condition B+: replaced bottom right corner, affecting image; restored losses in margins; repaired tears and creases in margins and image. This is a more crowded image, although Purvis still employs his distinctive cut-out technique. Instead of a plain white background, here there are three horizontal layers of color. "This poster aroused some controversy when it was first issued. The company received an angry letter from the secretary of a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, protesting that a picture of a child hanging on to a donkey's tail was an incentive to cruelty and consequently a harmful influence on the young. His demand that the poster be withdrawn was refused" (Railway p. 134). Railway p.134.
