Edward
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Wow! Great score! Really got a nice haul there! Beautiful!Hey Edward, I won that auction yesterday. I pick them up next week at the Auction house. One is by James Bama called Homecoming. It was weird, it took me hours to try and get this photo on here. It would not load so I had to end up copy and paste it. But the illustration is of a WW2 MOH recipient returning home a hero. I am trying to hunt down the story that used this Bama illustration. James Bama is super famous and is still alive in his 90's. He was pals with all the top illustrators like Norman Rockwell, Mort Kunstler, Rolf Armstrong etc. He did magazine covers just like Tom Lovell did, then over to pulp magazines then on to traditional Westerns which launched him to superstardom. Usually you drop 10k and upwards to get his works. But there was an error in the Auction listing and this was sold as part of a group lot sale that had 4 original paintings and 4 lithograph prints. No names of the artist or the name of the art pieces were listed and I noticed and one other person noticed the error and we had a bidding war. I won the whole lot. 2 originals by Tom Freeman famous Aviation and Naval artist. One original watercolor by Patrick Henry Raleigh who did illustrations for Good Housekeeping magazine in 1924 called the Cruisers and then this 1 by James Bama. I tried posting all this yesterday but it wouldn't load so I do not know if any of those listings went thru, so if there are multiple listings of this then I am sorry for the glitches.
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