What began as a joke from one British railroad company to another gave rise to a revolution in advertising art across the Channel in the 1930s.
Alfred Reginald Thomson (1895-1979), LNER/Take me by the flying Scotsman, vers 1936, affiche, 100,2 x 61 cm. Estimation : 15 000/20 000 $
Alfred Reginald Thomson (1895-1979), LNER/Take me by the flying Scotsman, vers 1936, affiche, 100,2 x 61 cm. Estimation : 15 000/20 000 $
Under the Railways Act of 1921, Great Britain concentrated its rail network into four major companies, which shared the territory between them. The two main ones are the Southern Railway (SR), linking London to the seaside…
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