Aug 02, 2006 - Sale 2085

Sale 2085 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 978
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LOUIS FANCHER IN THE AIR SERVICE. Circa 1918.
39 7/8x29 1/2 inches. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia.
Condition B+: restored losses and repaired tears in top left margin; vertical and horizontal folds.
A mechanic is waving a plane into the sky against a gray background of a hangar filled with more planes. On May 24, 1918, President Wilson removed responsibility for American military aviation from the Signal Corps and placed it within two agencies under the supervision of the U.S. Army: the Bureau of Aircraft Production and the Division of Military Aeronautics. These two branches were officially recognized as the U.S. Army Air Service. Rawls p.175.