Oct 10, 2024 - Sale 2681

Sale 2681 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

WHITE EMPRESS OF THE PACIFIC / CANADIAN PACIFIC. 1930.


36½x24 inches, 92¾x61 cm.
Condition B+ / A-: expert overpainting in margins; minor restoration along creases in border and text.

This poster illustrates one out of a trio of Canadian Pacific's three-smokestack vessels (Empress of Japan, Empress of Asia and the Empress of Russia) serving the Pacific route. A portion of this poster, with Chinese text, is depicted in Canadian Pacific (p. 42).