?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
CARL SALTZMANN (1847-1923)
RED STAR LINE / VON ANTWERPEN NACH NEW YORK & PHILADELPHIA. Circa 1893.
39x27 1/2 inches, 99x69 3/4 cm. Klingenberg, Detmold. Condition B: repaired tears and small replaced losses at edges, some into image; sharp creases and minor abrasions in margins and image; archival tape on verso. Paper.
A very early ocean liner poster for the Red Star Line, featuring the Westernland. Built in 1883, the ship was the company's first with a steel hull, first with two funnels and first with three different classes of passenger accommodation. From 1883-1901, she sailed the route between Antwerp and Philadelphia, seen here sailing into New York, past the Statue of Liberty (officially opened in October 1886) and heading towards the Brooklyn Bridge (opened in May 1883). Passenger Ships 17.
