Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
MICHAEL P. WHELAN (DATES UNKNOWN) MEN WANTED FOR THE ARMY. Circa 1910.
39 1/2x28 1/2 inches, 100 1/4x72 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, some affecting image; creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image; overpainted margins.
One in a series of evocative pre-World War I recruiting posters that unintentionally depicts a military way of life that would all but disappear with the onset of the First World War. Rawls p. 54, Theofiles 1, p. 16, Borkan p. 13.