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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
VINCENT GUERRA (DATES UNKNOWN)
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES EGYPTE SYRIE - LIBAN / PAR CHAMPOLLION. Circa 1930s.
38 3/4x24 inches, 98 1/2x61 cm. Alépée & Cie., Paris. Condition A. Framed.
The Champollion, named after famed Egyptologist and hieroglyphologist Jean-Francois Champollion (the first to translate the Rosetta Stone), went into service for the Messageries Maritimes in 1924, and solely served the route between Marseille, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon until it was requisitioned as a troop ship during the Second World War. Passenger Ships end-paper, La Mer p. 253.
