?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WITTLIG (DATES UNKNOWN)
MAIL BY AIR / EVERYWHERE! 1938.
28x22 inches, 71x55 3/4 cm. Condition B+: small losses in bottom corners; tears in margins, one slightly into lower left text; creases and abrasions in margins and image; minor water stain in bottom right corner. Printed on board.
"This U.S. Post Office poster . . . does not mention Pan American Airways by name, but the China Clipper type Martin M-130 flying boat with PAA insignia is clearly shown, along with a DC-2 and a Lockheed twin-engined type. PAA's Pacific and Latin American routes are clearly marked on the map, based on the one used by Pan American in all its timetables. The Transatlantic route was not yet in operation [it began in 1939]" (Airlines p. 30). This same image was used on the cover of a January 1938, Pan Am airmail brochure. Pacific Pioneers p. 595 (var), Airlines p. 30.
