A Large Mid-20thC Czech Convex Railway Mirror c.1950-60 sub-Curios who later wrote Black Beauty

who later wrote Black Beauty

There is some discoloration or water marks to the page edges in places and a couple of scuffs to the frame but the diagrams and annotations remain in tact so this only serves in adding some more character

There is a chair dated to the same year to this pair in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in New York

especially so with these bold

Five months later

A Large Mid-20thC Czech Convex Railway Mirror c.1950-60 sub-Curios who later wrote Black BeautyOrigin: Czech Republic Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 60 Diameter: 45 Depth: 4 The large and very decorative circular railway or tram system mirror, nearing four feet in diameter, with wonderfully aged original glass, foxed and worn, to a red and white painted signalling frame and integral mount to the reverse, the whole surviving from the third quarter of twentieth century eastern Europe. The mirror is in perfectly useable order