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← Sporting Memorabilia 26th & 27th October 2015

1930s Tazio Nuvolari memorabilia and Grand Prix scrapbooks, comprising three black & white photographic images, largest 5 by 8in., a laminated photoc

Hammer Price:
£90
Estimated Price:

£120 - £150

1930s Tazio Nuvolari memorabilia and Grand Prix scrapbooks, comprising three black & white photographic images, largest 5 by 8in., a laminated photocopy of a letter from Maserati concerning the 1934 Avus GP, taken with permission of the Nuvolari estate by the late Eoin Young, translation and provenance documentation, a greetings card signed and dated 1973 by his widow Carolina; plus three scrapbooks from the 1935, 1936 & 1938 seasons, 131 pages of press clippings and hand-written English text; together with The Story of Grand Prix Racing, a 1948 Fleet Street booklet published just prior to the first post-war British GP, 28-pages, fully illustrated (9). Nuvolari suffered a serious accident driving for Maserati in the 1934 Alessandria race, resulting in a severe fracture to his left leg. Despite protestations from the Maserati team, he left hospital to race once more at Avus in Berlin, just five week's later. He finished fifth with his leg still in a plaster cast!