Feb 03, 2011 - Sale 2235

Sale 2235 - Lot 305

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(NORTH GERMAN LLOYD LINE.) "Bremen" (IV). Round South America on the North German Lloyd Bremen. February 11, 1939. A Raymond-Whitcomb Cruise. Large color counter display card with easel back for use in a Raymond-Whitcomb travel agency, 23 3/4x17 3/4 inches; matted and framed. United States, 1939

Additional Details

Quadruple-screw flagship of the line. Launched in 1929, she captured the blue riband on her maiden voyage. At the beginning of World War II she made a hasty and harrowing return to Germany to avoid capture. She was destroyed in an air raid on Bremerhaven in March 1941.