Nov 23, 2021 - Sale 2589

Sale 2589 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

[P&O STEAMSHIP THE S.S. NALDERA / JOINT JAZZ BAND PERFORMANCE]. Painted maquette. 1932.


43 3/4x31 inches, 111x78 3/4 cm.
Condition B+: small tears at edges; creases and abrasions at edges and in image. Gouache and ink on paper.

The poster roughly translates as "Wednesday, June 1st and Thursday, June 2nd / UK P&O steamship the SS Naldera's Jazz Band and the National Imperial band joint performance, until 12 o'clock in the Imperial Dance Hall." The SS Naldera was a steam-powered passenger liner owned and operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) between 1920 and 1938. She began playing the London – Penang – Singapore – Hong Kong – Shanghai – Yokohama route in 1928.