Dec 13, 2018 - Sale 2496

Sale 2496 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WORLD WAR I.) Map to Illustrate the Meuse-Argonne Offensive - First, Second and Last Phases. Large French military map overprinted in blue and red. 32x28 1/2 inches sheet size, wide margins; one tear and fold separations reinforced on verso. France: Base Printing Plant, 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1918

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Military map detailing the daily lines of American advance into the Western Front as part of the Hundred Days Offensive, the final Allied drive which brought World War I to an end. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the largest and bloodiest military operation in American history, leaving 26,277 American soldiers' lives lost; at the time of this cataloging, a campaign which occurred exactly 100 years ago.