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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952) IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT! / JOIN THE MARINES. 1915. 40x30 inches, 101 1/2x76 1/4 cm. Condition B+: tears, creases and abrasions in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; pin holes in corners. Paper. An early sexy, taunting and daring recruitment poster, done two years before the United States entered World War I. The artist plays upon "the confusion of genders [that] provided posters with provocative images like this . . . whose purpose is the seduction of men into service" (Paret p. 64). Rawls p. 249, Paret 89, Theofiles 66, Borkan p. 39, American Style 64.
