Aug 01, 2018 - Sale 2484

Sale 2484 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
JOSEPH C. LEYENDECKER (1874-1951) USA BONDS / THIRD LIBERTY LOAN. 1918.
30x20 inches, 76 1/4x50 3/4 cm. American Lithographic Co., New York.
Condition A: minor tears and creases in margins. Paper.
Well-known as the illustrator who created the Arrow Collar Man, Leyendecker also designed several war posters. This poster "was specially requested as a recognition of the successful promotion of the war loans by the American Boy Scouts" (Darracott p. xix). Darracott cover and pl. 30, Rawls p. 211, Theofiles 146, Borkan p. 103, Paret 97.