LE GARAGISTE (THOMAS F. MELAHN, SEARSPORT, MAINE)
"Targa", cast and patinated bronze, signed by 'Le Garagiste', with facsimile autograph of driver Elizabeth Junek, roughly 5 3/4" x 14" x 8". Fine condition.
The Subject: Elizabeth Jurek; The Place: The Madonie Circuit of the Targa Florio; and the time, very late in the race of 1928. The fearful moment when two rocks appeared suddenly in the middle of the course... two rocks that had not been there on the previous lap. It has long been at least suspicioned that these had been planted, and with this notion at least in mind, the eerie figures of two mysterious men appear in the shadow of a huge boulder.
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"Targa", cast and patinated bronze, signed by 'Le Garagiste', with facsimile autograph of driver Elizabeth Junek, roughly 5 3/4" x 14" x 8". Fine condition.
The Subject: Elizabeth Jurek; The Place: The Madonie Circuit of the Targa Florio; and the time, very late in the race of 1928. The fearful moment when two rocks appeared suddenly in the middle of the course... two rocks that had not been there on the previous lap. It has long been at least suspicioned that these had been planted, and with this notion at least in mind, the eerie figures of two mysterious men appear in the shadow of a huge boulder.
