# 35842

[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU]; ASHTON, Will (artist)

[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Hotel Kosciusko, 5000 ft. : Mount Kosciusko, 7305 ft. : the home of winter sport in Australia

$180.00 AUD

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[s.l. : s.n., circa 1930]. Folding card, 205 x 150 mm, colour pictorial front depicting skiers outside the Hotel (from a painting by Will Ashton), annotated by the original owner, who spent her winter holiday at the hotel in the year 1930, ‘25.5.30 – 31.5.30‘, and with her ownership wet stamp ‘Mrs G.C.E. Single, “Brunch”, 38 Arthur St., Croydon 2132’; inner sides with two monochrome photographic illustrations and space for autographs, with a number of signatures of hotel guests; rear side with colour photographic illustration ‘Kosciusko in Summer : snow daisies near Summit’; some mild wear, but a good example of a most attractive Kosciusko souvenir.

The Hotel Kosciusko, near Smiggin Holes, was built by the New South Wales Government and opened in 1909. It was destroyed by fire in 1951.