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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
R. F. BABCOCK JOIN THE NAVY. Circa 1917. 41 3/4x28 1/4 inches. Condition B: repaired tears, restoration and overpainting in margins and corners; wrinkles in image. Replete with masculinity and adventure, a sailor in blue is riding bareback on an orange torpedo in green water; lettering in red and blue. This is an image that may have inspired the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Rawls 72, Navy 15, Theofiles 32, Rickards 161, Borkan p. 23.
