57834 Type 57

Delivered through the Lyon agent P. Monestier et Cie to Dr. Robert Perrin, who registered it in Lyon as 9141-PG. After subsequent French caretakers Turk and Francois Chevalerias, it passed in the late 1950s to Paul Pazery and was shipped to the United States in 1959, later kept in New Mexico with a cosmetic restoration in the late 1970s. After Pazery's death it went to collector Jeffrey Ozan and in 2006 to Keith Crain, who commissioned a full restoration by Brian Joseph's Classic & Exotic Service in Troy, Michigan. Shown at Pebble Beach in 2007 and at the Concours d'Elegance of America, it sold for $797,000 at RM Sotheby's Amelia Island…