27th Nov, 2024 10:00

Books & Works on Paper
 
Lot 196
 

Underground Map. Berlin: BVG/U-Bahn ‘Haus Vaterland‘ 1931

BVG/U-Bahn ‘Haus Vaterland‘

First edition, printed in colour on stiff paper, folding into four sections, especially for the ‘Haus Vaterland‘ department store, 145 x 280mm., Berlin, April, 1931. Rare.

*** By an unknown designer who seems to have taken inspiration from the English designer of the early Underground map, Fred Stingemore. This map reflects changing styles in underground map-making that were comparable with what was occurinbg in London at the same time.

Estimated at £400 - £600

 

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