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Auction History Result 5p0083 LOETSCHBERG RAILWAY linen 28x39 Swiss travel poster 1930s great Emanuel Gyger photo, rare! Date Sold 9/1/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Swiss Travel Poster (measures 28 1/4" x 39" [72 x 99 cm]) (Learn More) Loetschberg Railway, the circa 1930s Swiss railroad train travel poster ("Lake Oeschinen near Kandersteg"; "Information, pamphlets and folder regarding Kandersteg and the Bernese Alpine Railway at all Inquiry Offices") encouraging people to use the Lotschberg railway to see the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. The Lotschberg line is famous for its double loop of spiral tunnels in the Kander Valley on its northern approach to the Lotschberg Tunnel and the climb out of the Rhone Valley on a steep mountainside through numerous tunnels and viaducts on the southern approach. Note that this poster features an Emanuel Gyger image of Lake Oeschinen with mountains in the background. Artist: Emanuel Gyger Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this travel poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had a few tears and faint tape stains around the edges, with some slight darkening. It had uneven darkening in the top left, both in the top left corner and in a rectangle in the top left of the image, surely caused by snipes that were attached to those areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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