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Auction History Result 5p175 TWA ROME linen 25x40 travel poster '50s Klein art of Constellation aircraft over city! Date Sold 3/3/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Travel Poster (measures 24 3/4" x 39 3/4" [63 x 101 cm]) (Learn More) TWA: Rome, the 1950s airplane airline aviation travel poster designed to promote tourism to Rome aboard Trans World Airlines, and featuring colorful art of the Fountain of Neptune (Fontana del Nettuno) in the Piazza Navona by David Klein. If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that we have seen two versions of TWA Rome posters with this art. Some have a Constellation aircraft at upper right and "TWA Trans World Airlines" at bottom, and some have an image of a Super Constellation aircraft at upper right under the tagline "Fly TWA". We think that both date from 1950s, but the one with the regular Constellation and "TWA Trans World Airlines" at bottom likely predates the one with the Super Constellation. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Artist: David Klein Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had a circular tear in the bottom center, mostly in the background area, but extending into the top of the "A" of "TRANS", with a vertical tear beneath the circular one, and a vertical tear above the circular one, extending into the bottom of the statue art. It had diagonal creases in the bottom left corner in the background area and some small tears in the top and bottom borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. At some point after the poster was backed, it was roughly handled, and there are now some creases in the top and bottom excess linen, a tape stain in the right of the bottom excess linen, and slight "lifting" of the poster from the linen in the top and bottom borders. Learn More about condition grades 
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