Aug 03, 2011 - Sale 2252

Sale 2252 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CHARLES E. CHAMBERS (1883-1941) [FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR.] 1918.
30 1/2x20 inches, 77 1/2x50 3/4 cm. Rusling Wood, New York.
Condition B+: overpainting along bottom, affecting text.
To reach as broad an immigrant base as possible, this poster appeared in several different languages including English, Italian and Hungarian. The most desirable of all the variations, this is the Yiddish version. Magnes p. 49, Rawls p. 113, Theofiles p. 94 (var), Borkan p. 60, Gallo p. 92.