VINTAGE CALENDAR IMAGES
LOT DETAILS
Four sets featuring Shell calendar of 1971, six images of British bird species by renowned artist Basil Ede whose shows have been hosted at the Tryon Gallery, London, Smithsonian, Washington, Kennedy Galleries, New York; two of his paintings reside in the collection of the late Duke of Edinburgh who also wrote the foreword to his book, Birds of Town and Villages published in 1965; BP calendar of 1972, six images of British Industrial Archaeology by renowned British artist Rowland Hilder and President of The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the time; Shell Calendar of 1973, six images of British wildlife including hare leverets, badger cub, fox cubs, red deer calf, otter cub, and red squirrels, by renowned British wildlife artist Rita Parsons of the British Museum of Natural History; Shell calendar of 1974, six images of British wildlife including Muntjac Fawn and Song Thrush, Stoat family and peacock butterfly, Wild Cat kittens, Common Seal pup and Ringed Plover, Pine Martens, and Hedgehog family and Robin, again by Rita Parsons; all images size 32cm x 22cm (12 5/8 x 8 5/8in), images are in pristine original condition with calendars and three are in original light cardboard sleeves