Aug 03, 2005 - Sale 2048

Sale 2048 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOHN PAUL VORHEES JOIN THE AIR SERVICE. 1917.
37x25 inches. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia.
Condition A-: minor tears in margins; creases in image. Paper.
A wonderful early airplane image featuring soldiers in khaki who are watching as a plane soars between the blue sea and the red sky. During World War I, "The Army Air Service [the precursor to the Air Force], like the Navy, was dependent on recruiting. Only the Army itself had a selective enlistment system. Rawls p. 179, IWM p. 57, Theofiles pl. C7, Borkan p. 41.