565* Mr. Punch & His Ordinary Bicycle. A horizontal format coloured print showing Mr. Punch on the right-hand side standing by Britannia mounted on a high bicycle, the dog Toby seated on the ground between them, in front of an open book dated 1879. The rest of the image is occupied by a group of Victorian ladies, gentlemen and children (plus Mr. Punch) riding their Ordinaries, some more successfully than others. Double-mounted, framed and glazed. Image size within the aperture 19.5 x 50cms 561* Boulanger, Graciela Rodo, ‘Girls at Large’, a lithographic colour print depicting three women on bicycles, in the stylized renderings for which this Bolivian artist is famous. 23 x 23-inches, (58 x 58cm) framed and glazed (1)
(1)
£80-120
£80-120
562* 1898 Calendar a decorative calendar, comprising four sections, with lithographic cycling scenes in colour, mounted framed and glazed, 10 x 8-inches (4)
£40-80
563* Centaur Cycle Co. An 1887 illustrated broadsheet advertising the Company’s manufactured product from GFDs to Sociables, Italian text. Well-detailed, and in excellent condition, framed and glazed. 17 x 23-inches (1)
£120-180
564* Cecil Aldin Brampton Chains Advertising Print. An attractive coloured image, printed and published by Demrus & Sons Ltd., London and Watford, with printed Aldin signature bottom left, depicting an Edwardian group of travellers outside the Red Lion Inn. A waiter is serving drinks to a motoring couple whose vehicle has stopped in front of the hostelry’s main entrance, while the foreground of the scene is occupied by a motorcyclist standing by his machine and in conversation with two cyclists, presumably husband and wife, one seated and one standing, the encounter being observed by two foxhounds. A tattered Brampton Chains poster is on the wall of the public house, in the top right corner of the image. Image size 32.5 x 40cms, framed and glazed (1)
566* Harry Tate in ‘Flying’. A large, framed and glazed, colourprinted vertical format poster, apparently copied from an original, advertising the famed music hall and film comedian in one of his celebrated sketches. His smiling face is depicted centre, framed by the engine and blades of an aeroplane against a broad expanse of sky. There is a biplane upper left, and the lower part of the image shows a four-funnelled ocean liner steaming from New York on the right to London (symbolized by St. Paul’s Cathedral) in the bottom left-hand corner. Some light horizontal fold marks, else a good, clean image. Print size 74 x 50cms (1)
£180-220
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£180-220