Aug 06, 2003 - Sale 1975

Sale 1975 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL KEEP HIM FREE / WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. 1918.
30x20 inches. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia.
Condition B+: minor tears and creases in left margin; crease in image. Paper.
A bald eagle on the edge of her nest is watching her young take flight. Here, her brood are a squadron of Curtiss Jenny biplanes, making a clear connection with the money Americans invested in war stamps and America's burgeoning airforce. Rawls p. 218, Borkan p. 137.