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Lot 481

Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019 6:00AM ET
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[Sports] [Automobilia] Sears, Stanley E. A Collection of Interesting Cars

Privately printed in Bolney, Sussex, England, n.d.( ca. 1960). Oblong 12mo. Unpaginated. Spiral-bound album with stiff dark green wrappers, stamped in gilt, curled. Eighteen leaves of text and 41 gelatin silver prints credited to Thomas Photos, Oxford; also seen with 16 pp. and 40 prints, and 18 pp. and 48 prints.

An album of early luxury automobiles (including a 1927 Rolls Royce Phantom I with a Louis XIV interior and upholstery, a 1932 Rolls Royce 20/25, a 1934 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a reconstructed 1905 Rolls Royce, a 1938 Rolls Royce Phantom III, and 1939 Rolls Royce Wraith, and a Wallis & Steevens Steam Tractor which he converted to propane) owned by car collector Stanley E. Sears (1903–1989). With a letter dated 16th June 1960 on 20-Ghost Club stationery (the oldest Rolls-Royce club in the world), from Sears, its then president, to an American collector (Charles N. Melhinch).

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