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Back to the Horse and Buggy Days!
For sale is a turn of the century buggy. A two seater that would be great to ride around on your rural property. In very sturdy condition with no repairs necessary. All it could use would a sanding and revarnish to make it pristine. $8.900

MGA Drivers Handbook and Hardcover Workshop Manual. Excellent condition

$95.00

Danbury Mint Pewter Car Collection: Set of of 25 cars that are very fine in detail and in "mint" condition. They run some somewhere around $90 to $110 per car. They are being offered at $100/ a piece individually or $2000 for the complete set.

· 1932 Alfa Romeo

· 1936 Alvis Speed 25

· 1930 Bentley Barmato

· 1927 Bugatti Royale

· 1913 Cadillac Roadster

· 1932 Chevrolet Phaeton

· 1932 Chrysler Lebaron

· 1931 Daimler Double-Six

* 1932 Delage Cabriolet

· 1938 Delahaye

· 1926 Fiat

· 1912 Hispano-Suiza

· 1926 Isotta Fraschini

· 1906 Itala Targa Florio

· 1936 Jaguar SS/100

· 1937 Lagonda Rapide

· 1929 Lancia Dilamboa

* 1941 Lincoln Continental

· 1948 MG-TC

· 1939 Mercedes-Benz 540-K

· 1912 Packard

· 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost

· 1912 Simplex

· 1924 Vauxhall

· 1934 Voisin 17 CV

SOLD

1933 Monaco Grand Prix by Geo Ham (Georges Hamel), French, 1933

Size: 48" x 32"

Geo Ham inherited the mantel of the leading French Automobile artist from his mentor and inspiration, Ernest Montaut. Ham's earliest commercial work dates from 1922, and by the mid-1920's he was in great demand by car manufacturers for his highly stylized, glamorous interpretations. The technique adapted by Ham displays an even balance of style and realism. In this imaginative work, he has faithfully shown us the massively powerful Type 51 Bugatti, exiting the tunnel in violent pursuit of the 8 cylinder Maserati and a supercharged Bentley, the darkness of the tunnel contrasts effectively with the warm, Spring sunshine into which the Bugatti is hurtling.

Ham has boldly used the highly stylized and over-large palm tree, so redolent of the Cote d'Azur, as an artistic balance with the realism of the cars. The picturesque view of the Principality and Alpes Martimes beyond, bathed in sunshine, completes one of the most renowned automotive Grand prix posters ever created.

Rarity: Fewer than 12 examples known

Price: $4,500

1903 Tile panel # 18 Driver Serpollet
Race Coupe Rothchild

“Of the grandstand, of the public, and the people lining the course, I saw nothing. I felt, on approaching the measured kilometre as I opened my auxiliary pump a frightening thing thrusting me forward as if I were projectile from a gun…’ Léon Serpollet describing the 1902 world record sprint.

Léon Serpollet invented the flash steam boiler, and together with the Count de Dion dominated the early development of stead-driven machine. Early steam cars required frequent attention to the boiler (hence the word chauffeur’), and had a great thirst for water. Consequently they were uncompetitive in long road races. However, on 13 April 1902, Serpollet’s steam powered 10hp car took part in the sprint trials along the promenade des Anglais in Nice. Baron Henri de Rothchild who raced under the name of ‘Dr. Pâscal’, was also competing in his Mercédés 35hp over the flying kilometre course. The Serpollet steam car (nicknamed ‘Oeuf de Paques’ or ‘Easter Egg’ due to it’s aerodynamic shape) achieved a record speed of 75.1mph (120.8) and was victorious, denying Rothchild the trophy bearing his own name. Although Serpollet took part in the Speed week at Nice in 1901, 1902 and 1903, it was the 1902 victory that was most celebrated, gaining Serpollet world land-speed record. With the new car racer shown here, Serpollet carried off the Henri de Rothchild Cup in 1903, too, but no records were broken as a mark of respect to Count Zborowski, killed when his 60h Mercédés crashed in the La Turbie hillclimb the day before. It seems possible, therefore, that the tile date 1903 is incorrect.

Alexandre Darracq originally started business in the nineteenth century as a manufacturers of Gladiator Bicycles. Eventually, he produced as 20-hp four cylinder engine with pressed steel chassis in 1902. Darracq was in the forefront of pioneers of mechanical inlet valves, L-head engines, pressed steel chass and proper location of back axles using torque control arms.

This poster appears to be pre 1920 when he merged and formed another company. In the interim period of 1905 to 1912 Darracq produced a 10 litre racing car which is the subject of this poster and captured a land speed record in 1905. The faster than Kodak reference is, of course, a reference to Kodak cameras During this period Kodak was attempting to make the term Kodak a part of the English language. However, they took exception to its use in a negative connotation in this poster and managed to have it removed. As a result there are very few posters remaining with the faster than Kodak line.

Price: $4,500

FIAT by Jack le Breton, English, circa 1925

Published by McLay, London,

Size: 60" x 40"

By the mid-1920's. Fiat had become a popular and established margue in Great Britain, competing with the domestic products to attract a reasonable market share. Fiat's British division commissioned this poster by the artist and illustrator Jack le Breton in 1925. Le Breton has used the discus thrower of ancient mythology to remind the onlooker of the marquee's Italian ancestry, with the image of the car itself - a type 508 model - superimposed.

Apart from the rather pedestrian, six-plight sedan depicted in the poster, Fiat produced a popular range of sporting and competition cars in the 1920's. It is likely that the British domestic market felt comfortable with the undemanding sedan shown here. It is interesting to note that Fiat Auto chose, of all Fiat's wealth of automotive images, as the cover illustration for their catalogue raisonne of Fiat posters, published in 1988.

Rarity: Fewer than 12 examples known

Price: $3,500

Turken Garage
by Ludwig Bock, German, circa 1925
Size: 38" x 26" linen mounted

Ludwig Bock is well known for his prominent involvement, with the Munich Secessionist movement, also as a cartoonist and magazine illustrator.

Among the many magazines which featured his works are Jegenci and Die Dame, both very popular titles in the 1920's and 1930's.

This is one of the wittiest and most amusing automobile posters of the 1920's. The name and image do not mean the garage advertised was run by Turks - rather, it was (and remains incidentally), situated in Munich's well known thoroughfare, the Turkenstrasse.

Rarity: The only example known

Price: $1,500