Aug 06, 2003 - Sale 1975

Sale 1975 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
R. FAYERWAITHER BABCOCK JOIN THE NAVY. 1917.
413/4x281/4 inches.
Condition A-: minor repaired tears and creases in margins.
Replete with masculinity and adventure, a sailor is riding bareback on a torpedo. 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, Navy 16.