2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
Absentee bidding for this session ends on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST.
The live portion of this session begins on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST
Beautiful Framed Print, 30” x 22” sight, in heavy ornate frame and titled “Compass Heading 270”. The limited edition print is #23 of 50 and signed by the artist “Robert Taylor”. As the USS Hornet pitches and rolls in the mid-Pacific Swell, the Tokyo raid gets under way. Jimmy Doolittle's B-25, safely airborne and having completed a 360 degree turn, flies over the carrier to check his compass while the number two aircraft rolls down the deck under full throttle. The Remarque by Richard Taylor across the bottom border of the print showing the a B-25 on route to Tokyo. This highly-prized print is signed in pencil by twelve veterans who took part in the raid, all of whom have sadly since passed away: Richard E. Cole, Henry A. Potter, David M. Jones, Chase J. Nielson, David J. Thatcher, Nolan A. Herndon, Royden Stork, Frank A. Kappelar,William M. Bower, James H. Macia, Robert L. Hite, Jacob Deshazer. The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first American air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. Although the raid caused comparatively minor damage, it demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attacks. The name Robert Taylor has been synonymous with aviation art for over a quarter of a century and he is widely regarded as the world’s premier painter of aviation subjects, and is certainly the most widely collected artist in the history of the genre.
Click on a thumbnail above to display a larger image below
Hold down the mouse button and slide side to side to see more thumbnails(if available).
Click above for larger image.