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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
PAUL GEORGE LAWLER (DATES UNKNOWN)
ACROSS THE PACIFIC IN FIVE DAYS VIA PAN AMERICAN. 1938.
41½x27¼ inches, 104½x69¼ cm. Condition A-: expert overpainting and restoration in margins and around text; minor creases and restoration in image.
A Boeing 314 Clipper flying low over Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor, with Victoria Peak in the background. It is interesting to note that Lawler depicts the aircraft with a single, vertical tail fin, as it was originally built. In early tests, this configuration proved unreliable and the plane was outfitted with a wider back fin with endplates at both ends of the tail. Service from California to Hong Kong was suspended in 1941 due to the outbreak of war.
