Antiques Road show 1936 Lionel poster

You really gotta have a lotta wall for those.  Reproductions in a more managable size (say 3' wide) might be marketable.

Rusty

I was pretty impressed by those prints. Today anyone with access to a large format inkjet plotter could make similar murals. Hopefully someone here can comment on the possible source for the ones in the show. Kodak was capable of producing prints that size and larger for display at Grand Central Terminal. Maybe there were others back in the day.

Pete

I never even knew that this sort of thing existed. What a great item to have and show if you had the wall space.

I doubt if the Toy train musuem in Strasberg PA could show them properly. There may be enough wall space in the foyer, but even there it would be questionable if you could step back enough to take in the scope of them.

They are really a very speacial pair of prints. I would bet that there is someone with alot of wall space and the bucks out there who would love these pictures. In fact I would bet that the price could go as high as ten thousand dollars for each one of these photos.

I just hope that one of our posters could tell us how these where made in one piece like this using 1936 technology.

Probably came from Blum's Hobby House in Cleveland.

Forum member Todd Wagner would be the one with more information about Blum's (he picked up some items at their closing) and possibly even these posters.

Fantastic modernist images! THANKS for posting!

Those are indeed cool. I would love to have one of them.

Thank's Chuck, I actually understand how that would work.

I am blown away by these. While a natural for a train room, they are really magnificent retro art. If you have a big enough house, and you're into the style, they would be a impressive display anywhere.

Todd and I know, and are friends with, the guy in the show that owns these.

Stu

I just ate in a Cracker Barrel last week, there was an old issue of "Boys Life" on the wall with the cover showing the same two locos, I think. Will have to look closer the next time I go back.

BTW, who was or were the artist or artists that Lionel used back then. 

We know that Robert Sherman was the early Post War artist but I never considered who was responsible for the wonderful Pre War art.

Does anyone know if the info can be found in Roger Carp's book "The Art of Lionel Trains"?  Perhaps it wasn't done in house back then.

Anyway excellent posters!

Good call on the reference source.  Amazon has a "peek inside" for Roger Carps excellent book on The Art of Lionel Trains.   Some of the men responsible are cited in the introduction.   I have a copy of the book at home and will see if there is additional material citations.  I'm pretty sure these posters are blow ups of catalog artwork from that time period.

My wife and I had tickets for the Roadshow and I was able to see these posters,but not real close up.  I think that you really had to see them to get their full impact.  Sweet.

Norm

If you've ever been to a big outdoor sign company office, they have software and  spool printers that easily and quickly turn wallet sized photos into billboard sized banners. Outdoor Billboards existed way back in the 20's so the technology even back in the 30's was common practice.

Joe 

Lionel: A collectors Guide & History, Advertising & Art by McComas & Tuohy has

photographs of the Lionel offices in Hillside Nj with the same murals on the walls.

The same book has a copy of the ad for the murals. Numbers 933 (PRR Topedo)

and 932 (UP M10000), $20 each.