Lot 690
Live auction
White Star/ pour New York.
SHEP
€ 850 / 1.000
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Lot description
England, Sanders Phillips & Co., the Baynard Press, s.d
Chromolith., vellum paper 101,5 x 63 cm; signed to the left (folds with 2 small lacks to the centre, small margin. tears, one strengthened, Belgian fiscal stamps to the right).
Nice poster picturing the huge transatlantic liner preceeded by a small tugboat. For the Brussels travel agency Bull. By Charles Shepherd (b. 1892) who achieved many travel posters. One of the most famous ships of the British shipping company White Star Line was the RMS Titanic that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912, with more than 1500 victims.