£5,000
An exceptionally rare original French poster advertising the train and ferry boat service between France and the islands of Jersey and Guernsey by the new line to Carteret, dated 1st July 1889. The Jersey service operated from Gorey Harbour to Carteret and Port-Bail and on to Paris, Gare Saint Lazare. The poster titled Chemins de Fer de LOuest, Service entre la France & les iles de Jersey & de Guernesy [sic], par la nouvelle ligne de Carteret a dater du 1er Juillet 1889. Featuring a main colour illustration of Mont Orgueil and colour vignettes of Corbiere Lighthouse, St Helier and Gorges de Plemont together with a route map, timetables and prices, lithographed by F. Appel and published in Paris, bears a franked French postage stamp, or tax stamp, upper centre denoting that the revenue had been collected from the printer, 46 x 31 (116.8x 78.7cm.).
*In excellent condition with no folds which is highly unusual for a poster of this age. Poster shows the trim marks at the edge which suggests that it had not been displayed and had always been kept flat and out of the light.
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