Feb 23, 2023 - Sale 2627

Sale 2627 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WILLIAM M. RITTASE (1894-1968)
Group of 6 modernist photographs of the autogyro Pitcairn PCA-2. A series of images that show the plane in flight, on a flight field, and the interior. Toned silver prints, the images measuring approximately 13x10 1/4 inches (33x26 cm.), and the reverse, each double mounted, the larger mounts 17 1/2x14 inches (44.4x35.6 cm.), and slightly smaller, each with Rittase's signature in pencil on mount recto and his full or partial label with the print number in ink on mount verso. 1930s

Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia