This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/28/2019
Rumsey’s Blackville Fire Brigade Hook & Ladder Trucks Advertisement. New York: Crump Label Co./Eugene A. Rumsey, ca. 1980s. A vibrantly tinted chromolithograph depicting a cartoonish firefighting scene, black men and women relentlessly trying to put out a structure fire at the “Hotel d’Afrique” and advertising for Rumsey & Co. pump-hand fire engines and hook and ladder trucks. 18 x 26”. Inpainting to closed tears around margins, some affecting image; tanned borders with cellotape to few edges; scattered foxing to verso with conservation tape repairs to various tears and small holes. Good. Scarce example.