Antiques, Vintage & Decorative
Lot 156:
TOM L. BRIGGS Two paper folders titled ‘The Vanishing City’. Comprising sixteen original printed architectural illustrations by Tom L. Briggs, each titled, signed and dated ”74′ by Briggs in pencil below, including an introductory page written by Briggs dated October, 1974.
Provenance: Acquired by the vendors family who lived in Hong Kong in the 1970s and was a friend of Tom L. Briggs.
Tom L. Briggs was an artist who lived and worked in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s were he was the principal art teacher at King George V School. In 1977, he and author Colin Crisswell made a book titled ‘Hong Kong: The Vanishing City’, and later went on to make Vol. II in 1978. (2) Each print in overall good condition for age with no damages to note. One folder bears a tear along the spine and a small area of loss on one corner.
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