A Large Mid-20thC Czech Convex Railway Mirror c.1950-60 sub-Curios French-Blake

French-Blake

5” deep x 14” wide

especially so with these bold

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

but was also used in Monmouthshire at Pontypool and Usk

A Large Mid-20thC Czech Convex Railway Mirror c.1950-60 sub-Curios French-BlakeOrigin: 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