Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 280

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JOHN TAYLOR ARMS
Group of 4 etchings.

Battle Wagon--U.S.S. Alabama Outfitting at Norfolk Navy Yard, Crane Ship Kearsarge Alongside, 1943. Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed "IV" in pencil, lower margin. A variant of the same-titled etching from 1943 (see Fletcher 376) * Destroyers in Wet Basin at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, South Kearney, N.J. U.S.S. Radford, Quick, Mervine, 2 impressions, 1943. One signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed "IV" in pencil, lower margin, ex-collection Edward A. Bigelow, with the blind stamp lower right, the other signed, dated and inscribed "III" in pencil, lower margin * USS Columbia Under Construction at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, N.J., 1945. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. Various sizes and conditions. Fletcher 376, 377 and 390.