Aug 04, 2004 - Sale 2011

Sale 2011 - Lot 431

Price Realized: $ 402
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SCHREIBER KEEP HIM FLYING / BUY WAR BONDS. 1943.
40x281/2 inches. U.S. Government Printing Office.
Condition B+: paper loss along vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
A fighter pilot in his brown flight suit is getting into his green plane (with six red and white Rising Sun flags visible to indicate the number of enemy planes he has already shot down), as he simultaneously scans the sky with its beautiful orange and yellow sunrise. "One of the best U. S. Air corps images" (Meehan 9, p. 23).