8th Dec, 2009 12:00
The Pavilion Gardens
Two Albums Relating to 'Wizard' Smith & Stock Cars
Sold for £900
(including buyers premium)
The first titled, 'Wizard Smith', with contents including three 245 x 200mm photographs of the Australian motorist 'Wizard' Smith and his car the F.H. Stewart Enterprise, dated March 15th 1932. The second album, titled 'Stock Cars' includes twenty nine 245x200mm photographs featuring one image of Gil Anderson in his Stutz 'Black Hawk', five shots of Wade Morton in an Auburn Stock Car & twenty two shots of Wilbur Shaw in Feb 1928 attempting to break Bob Burman's 141mph land speed record in his 'Whippet' four cylinder special, including sensational images of the 'Whippet' being dragged from the Atlantic ocean, after Smith had driven into it to put out a fire. These albums were assigned the numbers 3 & 130 in period. (3)
Auction: The Pavilion Gardens, 8th Dec, 2009
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