?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LESTER BEALL (1903-1969) S.S. UNITED STATES / NEWEST . . . LARGEST AND FASTEST AMERICAN SHIP. Circa 1952. 30 1/4x22 inches, 76 3/4x56 cm. Condition A-: minor tears, abrasions and slight time-staining at edges; metal strips affixed at top and bottom. Paper. "In 1951, Beall was retained, through J. Walter Thompson, on the United States Lines Company account developing all of the promotional material for the ocean liner United States. For four years he designed posters, menus, cocktail napkins, linens and everything else that required graphic treatment" (Beall p. 72).
