Aug 04, 2022 - Sale 2612

Sale 2612 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

WARREN KEITH (DATES UNKNOWN)

JOIN THE AIR SERVICE / "GIVE 'ER THE GUN." Circa 1918.


30x20 inches, 76 1/4x50 3/4 cm. Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., Chicago.
Condition B+ / A-: tears and creases at edges, pin holes in upper corners, creases in image; ink stamps in image. Paper.

With SS-3 airships and bi-planes circling overhead, American pilots are getting ready to take off from a British airfield. The motto "give 'er the gun" was incorporated into the official Army Air Corps song in 1938. Rawls p. 176, Theofiles 29.