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Auction archive: Lot number 36

Original photograph of a young woman standing next to an early electric-powered car

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 36

Original photograph of a young woman standing next to an early electric-powered car

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Original photograph of a young woman standing next to an early electric-powered car Author: Place: Los Angeles Publisher: Date: 1910 Description: Browntone gelatin silver photograph. 29x18 cm (11½x7"), framed under glass. The young woman is standing next to a 1910 Detroit Electric Model D Brougham. On the back of the frame is mounted an old slip of paper with the following description: "1910, Marcia Stull Serfey Weaver, 18 years old with one of the 1st three Electric Cars in L.A. A gift from her grandfather & grandmother who lived in Hollywood, Ca." Detroit Electrics were made by the Anderson Carriage Company. The car cost $2,397 at the time, the equivalent of $135,881 today. Complete and unrestored car was sold in 2013 auction for $55,000. Better to buy T-bills. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear, not examined out of frame, about very good, sold as is. Item number: 277303

Auction archive: Lot number 36
Auction:
Datum:
15 Dec 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Original photograph of a young woman standing next to an early electric-powered car Author: Place: Los Angeles Publisher: Date: 1910 Description: Browntone gelatin silver photograph. 29x18 cm (11½x7"), framed under glass. The young woman is standing next to a 1910 Detroit Electric Model D Brougham. On the back of the frame is mounted an old slip of paper with the following description: "1910, Marcia Stull Serfey Weaver, 18 years old with one of the 1st three Electric Cars in L.A. A gift from her grandfather & grandmother who lived in Hollywood, Ca." Detroit Electrics were made by the Anderson Carriage Company. The car cost $2,397 at the time, the equivalent of $135,881 today. Complete and unrestored car was sold in 2013 auction for $55,000. Better to buy T-bills. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear, not examined out of frame, about very good, sold as is. Item number: 277303

Auction archive: Lot number 36
Auction:
Datum:
15 Dec 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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