Two rare items of 1914 Grand Prix de L'A.C.F. ephemera, a quality period photographic print of the eventual winner Lautenschlager re-fuelling his Merc
£250 - £400
Two rare items of 1914 Grand Prix de L'A.C.F. ephemera, a quality period photographic print of the eventual winner Lautenschlager re-fuelling his Merc?des during the race, 11.5 x 16.5cm., 4.5 x 6.6in., and a Circuit de Lyon day badge for the Enceinte des Tribunes, price 10 Francs, stamped no.2,710 and dated 4 Juillet 1914, a pale blue hexagonal card bearing the embossed crest of the Automobile Club de France, full terms and conditions on the reverse, black cord attached, 7cm., 2.75in. across, both items held on a page titled in French by hand and removed from an old scrapbook, mounted in a perspex display stand The 1914 Grand Prix - regarded by many historians as one of the greatest races of all time - took place the month before the outbreak of The Great War. The German Merc?des team finished 1-2-3, having finally broken the leading Peugeot of French hero Georges Boillot, in hindsight a most poignant moment considering that he would soon be killed fighting off the Germans in the trenches.