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Pictured: Sale Coordinator Lulu Randall with a motoring poster printed for the 1994 Tour de Auto featuring an image of Michael Wright's watercolour of the Tour de France Automobile 1971 race, in the Dreweatts Donnington Priory saleroom.
A glamorous collection of early French motorsport posters has emerged for sale with a British auction house for £25,000.
The earliest examples date from 1900 showing well-heeled Parisians chauffeured in vintage cars on the capital's streets.
The vehicles are flanked by marching bands with passengers in their finest clothes to reinforce the element of prestige.
There is a striking 1902 French poster of a British Mulberry car in the Scottish Highlands, while another celebrates the 1934 Grand Parade Vichy.
Pic: MaxWillcock/BNPS
Pictured: Sale Coordinator Lulu Randall with a motoring poster printed for the 1994 Tour de Auto featuring an image of Michael Wright's watercolour of the Tour de France Automobile 1971 race, in the Dreweatts Donnington Priory saleroom.
A glamorous collection of early French motorsport posters has emerged for sale with a British auction house for £25,000.
The earliest examples date from 1900 showing well-heeled Parisians chauffeured in vintage cars on the capital's streets.
The vehicles are flanked by marching bands with passengers in their finest clothes to reinforce the element of prestige.
There is a striking 1902 French poster of a British Mulberry car in the Scottish Highlands, while another celebrates the 1934 Grand Parade Vichy.
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