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Auction History Result 2b316 HAMBURG AMERICA LINE linen 20x30 travel poster 1930s deco Koeke cargo ship art, rare! Date Sold 12/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Travel Poster (measures 19 3/4" x 30" [50 x 76 cm]) (Learn More) The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG for short and referred to in English as Hamburg America Line or Hamburg-American Line) was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, Germany in 1847. It soon developed into the largest German (and at times the world's largest) shipping company, serving the market created by the German immigration to the United States and later immigration from Eastern Europe. In 1970, after 123 years of independent existence, HAPAG merged with the Bremen-based North German Lloyd to form Hapag-Lloyd AG. Artist: Hugo Koeke Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this travel poster! Also note that the famous four consisted of the New York, the Deutschland, the Albert Ballin, and the Hamburg. The New York was built in 1926, transferred to Deutsche Amerika Line in 1941 and sank in 1945 after being bombed in Kiel, Germany. The Deutschland was built in 1923, transferred to Deutsche Amerika Line in 1941 and sunk in 1945 in Bremen, Germany after an air attack. The Albert Ballin was built in 1923, renamed to Hansa in 1935, transferred to Deutsche Amerika Line in 1941, and sunk by a sea mine in Bremen, Germany in 1945. The Hamburg was built in 1923, hit a mine near Sassnitz and sank in 1945, only to be raised by Soviets and rebuilt as whaling factory ship called Yuri Dolgoruky.
UPDATED 12/06/2019: Note that this poster was printed in the U.S. and not Germany as we originally mentioned. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster was folded across the middle and it also had several other horizontal folds. It had many creases, scuffs, and tears scattered throughout, with tears around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Note that the restorer left a tiny bit of excess linen around all four sides of the poster (they left a small border in order to protect the poster from handling damage, but they did not leave a larger border, to allow it to more easily fit in a frame). Learn More about condition grades 
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