Date: 1910
Size: 15.75" x 23.5" (40 x 60cms)
Condition A-, newly linenbacked. Some restoration to margins and some age staining, but a rare piece with both champions lost in the Great War.
Artist: Anon
Description: Caminade was founded in 1910 by Pierre Caminade and maintained operations until about 1950.
François Faber (26 Jan 1887 – 9 May 1915) Born in France, was a Luxembourgian racing cyclist. He was the first foreigner to win the Tour de France in 1909, and his record of winning 5 consecutive stages still stands. He died in World War I while fighting for France. On 9 May 1915, the first day of the Battle of Artois at Carency near Arras he was shot while carrying an injured colleague back from no-man's land during fighting between Carency and Mont-Saint-Éloi. His regiment lost 1,950 of 2,900 in their attack. Faber was posthumously awarded the Médaille militaire.
Émile Friol (9 March 1881 - 16 Nov. 1916) was born in Lyon. He won the World Speed Championship twice (1907 and 1908), and is five time champion of France in discipline. He won the Grand Prix in speed, including four Grand Prix de Paris. Émile Friol mobilized at the beginning of the First World War attached as a motorist to one of the major military administrations. He died on November 16, 1916, hit by a bomb while driving a motorcycle. He is buried at the National Necropolis Saint-Pierre in Amiens, Tomb 444.