Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 440

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MILITARY--WORLD WAR II.) African American sailor's embroidered silk souvenir of Pacific campaign. Elaborately embroidered silk, 15-3/4 x 19-3/4 inches with soldier's photograph in the center, within an embroidered life-preserver, draped with flags; the American Eagle flying above; in a period frame. [Japan, circa 1945]
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One of the best we've ever seen of this sort of silk embroidered work, common to occupied Japan WWII and later Viet Nam.