Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
FAMOUS IMAGE OF JAPANESE SURRENDER (WORLD WAR II.) CHESTER W. NIMITZ. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "To William E. Reeves, Chief Electrician's Mate, USN, ret, with best wishes and warm regards to an old shipmate. C.W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, USN," showing him in the act of signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender in 1945. Signed and inscribed in the margin below the image. 11x14 inches overall; backed, a few faint vertical creases through image. Np, nd

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From the Collection of William Wheeler III.