Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CHARLES STAFFORD DUNCAN (1892-1952) IT TAKES A MAN TO FILL IT. 1918.
42x27 1/2 inches, 106 1/2x70 cm. Schmidt Litho., San Francisco.
Condition A-: repaired tears at edges; minor abrasions and restoration in margins and image.
A rare World War I poster printed and distributed only on the West Coast. "This strong design continues the concentration on essentials of the best pre-war posters by combining a simple image with a brief text into the definition of military service as a proof of virility" (Paret p. 54). Paret 73, War Posters p. 85, not in Borkan, not in Rawls.