?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CHARLES E. TURNER (1883-1965)
CUNARD TO CANADA. Circa 1948.
39 1/4x24 1/2 inches, 99 1/2x62 1/4 cm. Condition B+: replaced losses in top corners; overpainting in margins.
The Franconia, Scythia, Samaria and Ascania, all one-funnel liners, were used on the England - Canada routes in the years following the Second World War. Turner designed several posters for the shipping company over the decades and designed a series of propaganda posters during WWII. Turner served in the RAF during the first world war, and some of his earliest posters for the London Underground reflect his aeronautic experience. Weallans p. 177.
