An Original Solid Bronze Rolls-Royce Showroom Statue**
Lot 56
An Original Solid Bronze Rolls-Royce Showroom Statue**
Sold for £8,156
(including buyers premium)
Lot details
A very rare and important Rolls-Royce solid bronze giant-sized Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy Showroom Display Mascot, believed to be one of about 25 produced by Charles Sykes for Rolls-Royce Limited in the late Edwardian - 1920s period. Signed to the base Charles Sykes and marked No.5 to the base area. Measures approx. 21.50 inches tall base to wing tip and approximately 15.75 inches tall from the base to top of head. Overall, including the huge and very attractive polished wooden Showroom Display Mount for the Spirit of Ecstasy, the whole measures approx 29.50 inches tall.
Offered in absolutely excellent original and well-preserved condition, this magnificent Rolls-Royce Showroom Bronze Spirit of Ecstasy Statue is believed to have been on display at the famous Rolls-Royce Conduit Street, London Showrooms until the 1960s, when it was passed on to another London RR Dealership for Showroom Display, It was in the magnificent Collection of Rare and Important Rolls-Royce Memorabilia of well-know RREC Member the Late Brian Corser until his sad passing in the 1990s.
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