Aug 01, 2018 - Sale 2484

Sale 2484 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CHARLES COINER (1898-1989) OFFICIAL CIVILIAN DEFENSE INSIGNIA. 1942.
40x28 1/4 inches, 101 1/2x71 3/4 cm. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Condition B+: restoration and overpainting along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired pin holes in top corners.
"Coiner's visionary system of logo-like-symbols - effective in its logic, geometric simplicity, and capacity for seemingly endless variation - anticipated universal pictogram and corporate identity programs which would flourish in the 1960s" (Resnick p. 73). Resnick 43.