Aug 05, 2009 - Sale 2185

Sale 2185 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL (1874-1932) KEEP HIM FREE / BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. 1918.
29 3/4x20 inches, 76x51 cm. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia.
Condition B+ / A-: repaired tears and abrasions in margins; creases in margins and image. Japan.
A bald eagle on the edge of her nest is watching her young take flight. Here, her brood is a squadron of Curtiss Jenny biplanes, making a clear connection between the money Americans invested in war stamps and America's burgeoning airforce. Rawls p. 218, Borkan p. 137, Rickards 94.