World War 1 & 2
1938 American strip card of Germany’s annexation of Austria. Rare. B
Price: $30.00
Note: The anonymous strip card series entitled “The Nightmare of Warfare” was a copycat version of Gum, Inc.’s more elaborate “Horrors of War” set. The design on coloration of the cards and the intentional pirating of titles and text from a competitor all point to the W.S. Corporation as the producer. The artwork is limited to black silhouettes set against yellow backgrounds, with an occasional red accent thrown in. The vertically-aligned backs have the set title, card number, a “series of 48” line, card title, and text – all printed in black ink on gray stock. Since these are strip cards, one or two edges on all cards will be rouletted.
A collection of ephemera from Thomas Paige, with the USAF in World War 2. Includes a 1944 Thanksgiving menu for the USNR in San Bruno California; a RESTRICTED extract from the 6th Air Force Command in New Orleans January, 1944; a copy of the front page of the Honolulu Star - Bulletin on December 7, 1941; two issues of Skylark for October and November, 1943; a 1943 broadside advertising war bonds (some staining and damage); a 12 page manuscript (undated) titled The Materiel Division of the USA Air Corps; a RESTRICTED 1943 publication by the Army Air Force titled Your Body in Flight; a theatre program for Blackouts of 1945. B
Price: $800.00
Collection of 52 issues of History of the 20th Century, published by Purnell for BPC Publishing, London. B
Price: $2600.00
WW 366Archive belonging to a French Lieutenant (then later Captain) with the 2nd Colonial Infantry Regiment named Jean Bernard Escard. He served in Germany during WW2, then transferred to Tonkin and Cambodia and later Algeria, Madagascar and Senegal. Included is a full diary covering his time in Indochina in 1945-1946, with artwork, loose news clippings, a menu, etc. Also two small notebooks dated 1939 and 1941 where he made notes. Numerous documents from his assignments in Senegal, Madagascar, Algeria. Over 50 pages of documents, some marked SECRET, 3 photo albums containing over 230 real photos. Most prolific is his time in Indochina. M
Price: $1200.00
