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Auction History Result 9m0195 HOLLAND AMERICA LINE linen 25x38 Dutch travel poster 1954 Dirksen art of SS Nieuw Amsterdam! Date Sold 8/8/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Dutch Travel Poster (measures 24 1/2" x 37 1/2" [62 x 95 cm]) (Learn More) Holland America Line was founded in Rotterdam and from 1873 to 1989, and it operated as a Dutch shipping line, a passenger line, a cargo line and a cruise line operating primarily between the Netherlands and North America. As part of the company's legacy, it was directly involved in the transport of many hundreds of thousands of emigrants from the Netherlands to North America. It ceased operating as a Dutch line in 1989, when it was purchased by Carnival. Artist: Reyn Dirksen Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this Dutch poster! Also note that the SS Nieuw Amsterdam was christened by Queen Wilhelmina in April 1937. At the time, the ship had the largest air conditioning plant and the highest percentage of private baths of any ship afloat. The ship was also the only liner with a fully equipped and air conditioned theater. She was dubbed the Dutch "Ship of peace" because there were no provisions for possible war use incorporated in her design. However, after only seventeen voyages, Nieuw Amsterdam was requisitioned by the British Ministry of Transport after the Netherlands fell to the Germans. She would spend the remainder of the war years as a transport for troops and prisoners of war. During the course of World War II (WWII) she transported over 350,000 troops before being returned to the Holland America Line in 1946. After 18 months of repairs and refits, the Nieuw Amsterdam reentered transatlantic service and continued to be a popular ship into the 1970s. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had a long horizontal tear starting in the lower left border and running through the left half of the poster, with a number of other tears around the edges of the poster, with several extending into the image. Some of the tears had small paper loss in the borders by them. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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