Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(WORLD WAR ONE.) Bandanna titled "The Grand Victory of the Allies." Textile, 20 x 20 inches, with 5-inch ribbon life preserver attached at center; folds, minor wear at folds, lightly stitched into a quite worn plain period paper mat, from which it could easily be removed. No place, circa 1918

Additional Details

An attractive commemorative bandanna or handkerchief issued at the close of the war. Below a crown and above an image of Gibraltar Rock are 8 crossed flags of the Allied nations, with Great Britain and France at front and the United States right behind them. None traced on OCLC, at auction, or elsewhere.

WITH--Color poster, "Honor Roll Fighting for Humanity," 20 x 14 inches, filled out for Private Charles R. Roesinger of the 78th Division, 303rd Ammunition Train of Bayonne, NJ, with his 5 x 3-inch photographic portrait at inset; worn with several closed tears; AND a duplicate also made out for Private Roesinger, but without the inset photograph.