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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
AUGUST WILLIAM HUTAF (1879-1942) TREAT 'EM ROUGH! / JOIN THE TANKS. Circa 1918. 21 1/2x13 3/4 inches, 54 1/2x35 cm. The National Printing & Engraving Co., Chicago. Condition B+: repaired tears at edges and bottom left corner; creases in margins and image; horizontal folds. "Black Tom," the mascot of the newly formed U.S. Tank Corps, seen here living up to the Corps' motto, the title of the poster. "In this improbable version of tank warfare, the flaming colors, the Black Tomcat mascot with its vicious claws...project an image of sexual energy" (Paret p. 56). This is the smaller format. Rawls 254, Theofiles 14.
