Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 2,176
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
EDWARD PENFIELD (1866-1925) YES SIR - I AM HERE! / MOTOR CORPS OF AMERICA. 1918.
39x26 3/4 inches, 99x68 cm. Carey Print Lith., New York.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, abrasions and restoration along horizontal folds and in margins and image; restored loss in upper right corner; skinning at edges.
The Motor Corps was a volunteer organization that worked with the Red Cross providing rescue and emergency medical treatment. Of the handful of posters Penfield designed during World War I, this is the rarest. Rawls 25, Borkan p. 50, Paret 88.