Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
JAPANESE SURRENDER ABOARD U.S.S. MISSOURI (ADMIRALS--USA.) NIMITZ, CHESTER W. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "To Lt (jg) E.B. Maksimoski, USN--With best wishes / C.W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, USN," showing him in the act of signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender in 1945. Inscribed in the blank margin below the image, and additionally signed in the image near portrait of Nimitz ("C.W. Nimitz / U.S. Representative"). 11x12¾ inches; slight fading to extreme lower edge of signature in margin, some silvering in dark areas, few scattered dents, remnants of mounting at lower edge verso. Np, nd