Aug 04, 2022 - Sale 2612

Sale 2612 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

[JAPANESE PLANE SPOTTING GUIDE]. Circa 1940s.


42 1/2x30 1/2 inches, 108x77 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: replaced losses and overpainting in image and along vertical and horizontal folds; small creases, abrasions and repaired tears at edges, some into image.

An instructional poster for Japanese pilots to help identify Allied aircraft. Depicted at top is a Bell-YFM (Memphis Belle) with its recognizable propeller facing backwards) and below a Douglas A-20 with its recognizable long nose.