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Special Cheap Return Tickets...

Poster
06/02/1928 (designed), 1928 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Dangerfield Printing Co. Ltd. (printer)
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issuer)
Fraser, Eric George (FSIA) (designer)
Place of origin
England (issued)

'Special Cheap Return Tickets For Sport And Pleasure Parties'. Colour lithograph poster advertising a special arrangement for reduced price fares to sports clubs. Signed and dated within the design Eric Fraser '28 and dated again 6.2.28.

Object details

Categories
Transport
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleSpecial Cheap Return Tickets...
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Printing Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Special Cheap Return Tickets For Sport And Pleasure Parties'. Colour lithograph poster advertising a special arrangement for reduced price fares to sports clubs. Designed by Eric George Fraser. Issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.. Printed by the Dangerfield Printing Co. Ltd., London. 1928.
Physical description
'Special Cheap Return Tickets For Sport And Pleasure Parties'. Colour lithograph poster advertising a special arrangement for reduced price fares to sports clubs. Signed and dated within the design Eric Fraser '28 and dated again 6.2.28.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.9cm
  • Width: 63.4cm
Dimensions taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions
  • Eric Fraser '28 (Signed and dated within the design.)
  • 6.2.28 (Dated again.)
Subject depicted
Transport
Bibliographic reference
Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other number
13/D11 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.550-1987

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Record createdJuly 27, 2000
Record URL
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