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JOHN TAYLOR ARMS Four Etchings of Combat Vessels, U.S. Navy, World War II.
Complete set of 4 etchings in black portfolio case personally dedicated to John L. Sullivan, Secretary of the Navy, with letter from John Taylor Arms.
Battle Wagon—U.S.S. Alabama Outfitting at Norfolk Navy Yard, Crane Ship Kearsage Alongside, etching and aquatint, 1943. Signed, dated, inscribed "sp" and numbered VI in pencil, lower margin * Destroyers in Wet Basin at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, South Kearney, N.J., U.S.S. Radnor, Quick, Mervine, etching, 1942. Signed, dated, inscribed "sp" and numbered III in pencil, lower margin * U.S.S. Columbia under Construction at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, N.J., etching and drypoint, 1945. Signed, dated, inscribed "sp" and numbered IV in pencil, lower margin * U.S.S. Haddo, Portrait of a Submarine, etching and aquatint, 1947. Signed, titled, dated and numbered III in pencil, lower margin. Each dedicated in pencil, lower left. Various sizes and conditions. Superb, richly-inked impressions. Fletcher 376, 377, 390 and 405.
