Carrozzeria Italiana Cesare Sala (ISOTTA FRASCHINI, ALFA ROMEO) coachwork badges

Description

Here, for sale, are a pair of car badges that were reproduced for the completion of the restoration of an exquisite Isotta Fraschini automobile.  Four badges were cast for this restoration, only two were used - these are the extra pair.  Very rare.
Isotta Fraschinis shown are not included with the sale, only the pair of badges.
Cesare Sala had created bodies for
Alfa Romeo
,
Fiat
Lancia
,
Isotta Fraschini
and
Ansaldo
.
Carrozzeria Italiana Cesare Sala
was a
Milan
-based
coachbuilder
of extreme opulence - so opulent, they provided
carriages
for the
Vienna
court and bodies for
Isotta-Fraschini
automobiles.
Norma Desmond, in "Sunset Boulevard" owned an Isotta Fraschini.
The activities of this company, located in
Milan
, he began devoting himself to the original construction of
coach
building. Initially, therefore, it was a "carrozzaio", rather than a
carrozzeia
(coachbuilder). Among his early work on this area, were the cars for some Austrian personalities aristocrats. But in the very early years of the 20th century, with increasing success designing bodies, the company began to devote its self to the construction of automobile bodies.