Aug 03, 2005 - Sale 2048

Sale 2048 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 1,610
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ANONYMOUS JOIN THE AIR SERVICE. Circa 1918.
29x19 inches. Edwards & Deutsch, Chicago.
Condition B: light vertical and horizontal folds; faded. Matted and framed.
With SS-3 airships and bi-planes circling overhead, American pilots in green are getting ready to take off from a British airfield. The motto "give 'er the gun" was incorporated into the official Army Air Corps song in 1938. Rawls 176, Theofiles 29.