Aug 03, 2011 - Sale 2252

Sale 2252 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 11,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952) AVIATION / FLY WITH THE U.S. MARINES. 1920.
39x29 inches, 99x73 3/4 cm.
Condition A-: minor restoration in margins and at edges.
An airborne marine is riding on the back of a giant eagle, soaring over a bi-plane emblazoned with the Marine Corps emblem. The rarest of all of Christy's posters, this is also the only one to feature a man on his own. Rawls p. 181, Borkan p. 42