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Subject: "Custer's Last Fight" lithograph
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Visual Arts
Asked by: hk600-ga
List Price: $15.00
Posted: 01 Jun 2005 10:03 PDT
Expires: 01 Jul 2005 10:03 PDT
Question ID: 528178
I have a print of "Custer's Last Fight" by Otto Becker.
It has the Anheuser-Busch placard on the front.
It measures approximately 24" X 37".
It is in good condition with a slight tear in one of the corners.
I am sure it is at least 50+ years old.
Any ideas on the value?
Thanks,
Darrell
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Subject: Re: "Custer's Last Fight" lithograph
From: luntes-ga on 01 Jun 2005 15:21 PDT
 
Hi, Darrell
Julia Auctions was asking from US$600 to 900 in 2001 for the print:

http://www.juliaauctions.com/toys/11-00/June30ATD/gallery.htm
http://www.juliaauctions.com/toys/fall_01/catalog/ATD_12_2001/gallery_sect1.htm

Luntes
Subject: Re: "Custer's Last Fight" lithograph
From: hk600-ga on 02 Jun 2005 10:16 PDT
 
Thanks for the answer, however there appears to be more than one
"type" of this print. The one I have does not look like the one you
indicated, in that there is no writing at all on the painting
itself...only on the little placard on the frame. That is except for
the O Becker signature in the corner. The painting itself fills the
frame and there is no white border.
Curious.
Subject: Re: "Custer's Last Fight" lithograph
From: pilikia-ga on 30 Jun 2005 16:55 PDT
 
I have a copy of the lithograph,original wood frame with gilded
plaster "Anheuser-Busch" placard top center.  In the small,buff border
surrounding the picture, along the bottom, the naes of ther
participants above are printed.  According to the brewery this
indicates mine is from the second printing of the litho.  At "Antiques
Roadshow" in Seattle to years ago, I was given a $3000 - $5000 range. 
I have had better offers; I have had the print since about 1935 in
museum-quality mounting.
Subject: Re: "Custer's Last Fight" lithograph
From: pilikia-ga on 30 Jun 2005 16:59 PDT
 
Forgot a couple of things - the original was destroyed when the
Officers' Club at Fort Riley, Kansas, burned down around 1927. When
the litho was reissued, mid-20th century,below the picture proper,
'Anheuser Busch Brewing Associaion' wsa replaced with 'Budweiser
Beer'.  A lesser quality reproduction.
Subject: Re: "Custer's Last Fight" lithograph
From: terreyd-ga on 15 Jul 2005 11:41 PDT
 
My father has had a sizable version 30 inch high by 44 inch wide(?) of
this mural lithograph)hanging on his wall for decades...it too, has
only the
 O Becker signature written in the bottm corner...it lies in a
fabricated cardboard frame, made to look like a 3 inch wide woodgrain
finish (it appears the frame came with it)...thankfuly, it is in
perfect condition.

For those who follow this historical period, my great grandfather
(John Dolan, see Army's Arlington Cemetery Web site for notable war
dead, from the 7th Cavlary) fought it out, along side of Capt.Marcus
Reno, at the The Battle of Little Big Horn, so our famimly history is
interwoven with this art work...
Subject: Re: "Custer's Last Fight" lithograph
From: barryu-ga on 30 Jul 2005 08:31 PDT
 
I am interested in this print as well. I am somewhat confused as to
which version is from the 30's. Is it the one that has a wooden frame
with the border and  anheiser - busch with budweiser along with the
icon of the indian and us seal or the print in the carboard frame?

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