Nov 11, 2011 - Sale 2261

Sale 2261 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SCH (MONOGRAM UNKNOWN) LLOYD EXPRESS NACH NEW YORK. 1937.
46 1/2x33 1/4 inches, 118x84 1/2 cm. Meissner & Buch, Leipzig.
Condition B+: restoration along horizontal folds in image.
The Bremen and the Europa were sister ships constructed in 1929 and 1930. They each set record times traveling across the Atlantic between Germany (Bremen) and New York. Their speed accounts for the word "Express." One of several different text variations.