Aug 03, 2023 - Sale 2643

Sale 2643 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL (1874-1932)

JOIN THE ARMY AIR SERVICE / BE AN AMERICAN EAGLE! Circa 1917.


27x20 1/2 inches, 68 1/2x52 cm. Alpha Litho Co. Inc., New York.
Condition A- / B+: tape-repaired tear at bottom edge, slightly into text; minor tear at upper left corner; creases at edges and in image. Paper.

An action-filled allegorical image in which the flying predatory icons of two major world powers, the American Eagle and a German Black Eagle, square off in the sky amidst a squadron of biplanes. Rawls p. 173, Theofiles p. 35, Borkan p. 41, War Posters 116, Pollack 12.