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réf. 28030401 — San Francisco 1937 G.P.O. A large poster on stiff board 33 x 48 cm. white with black ink b.w. photo and aircraft English & mostly Chinese text time tables for departing air craft and schedule. OBSCURE ITEM LIMITED EDITION OF 500 This lovely period poster was printed September 30 1937 in a LIMITED EDITION OF 500 only copies per the colophon at the bottom of the poster. CONDITION: The poster is very clean and obscure. There are 2 very tiny mended closed tears in the right and lower margin else this is a very clean nice copy of a rare item. There is almost no surface soil and a small bump to lower right corner again none of this invades the text at all and can be matted out in a frame. The "CHINA CLIPPER" an early Pan-Am aircraft is shown flying over the city of San Francisco just above Fisherman's Wharf and other piers and North Beach Russian Hill the tower and downtown in the background. The text informs the Chinese community about the new air mail service drop off locations times of pickup and the like. Nicely executed. QUITE SCARCE . unknown