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Auction History Result 2b319 NIPPON YUSEN linen 21x31 Japanese travel poster 1930 Yushi art of bridge over river by house! Date Sold 12/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Japanese Travel Poster (measures 21 1/4" x 30 1/2" [54 x 77 cm]) (Learn More) Nippon Yusen (also known as Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan Mail Shipping Line or NYK Line) is Japanese shipping/cruise ship company which was founded in 1885. The company initially had a fleet of 58 steamships and expanded its operations rapidly, first to other Asian ports and then worldwide, with a line service to London being inaugurated in 1899. In World War II (WWII), the NYK Line provided military transport and hospital ships for the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, and only 37 NYK ships survived the war. In modern times, it has a fleet of about 800 ships, which includes container ships, tankers, roll-on/roll-off car carriers, cruise ships, and more. Artist: Yushi Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this Japanese travel poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The top 4" of the poster was separated completely from the rest of the poster. It had tears and areas of paper loss around the edges and smudges and stains in the blue background areas and to a lesser degree in the rest of the poster. Overall, the poster was in fair to 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. After the poster was backed, it acquired rippling across the top 1 1/2", mostly in the excess linen, but also somewhat in the top border, and the same is true to a lesser extent of the bottom border. Learn More about condition grades 
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