Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
H.B. (MONOGRAM UNKNOWN) CANADIAN PACIFIC GREAT ATLANTIC FLEET. Circa 1932.
36x24 inches, 91 1/2x61 cm.
Condition B+: small tears, repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins; minor creases in image. Paper.
Launched in 1930 and hailed as the "Five-Day Atlantic Giantess," "The World's Wondership" and "Canada's Challenger," the Empress of Britain" took its place as the flagship of the fleet" (Canadian Pacific p. 44). The ship competed for the title of most luxurious ocean liner, against such formidable opponents as Cunard's Aquitania and The French Line's Ile de France. Canadian Pacific / Choko p. 18.