Art
Custer's Last Fight, Anheuser Busch Poster (#1)
- Item Number
- 151
- Estimated Value
- 50 USD
- Sold
- 24 USD to palmerjm
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
A high quality poster: Custer's Last Fight, by Otto Becker produced by Anheuser-Busch in 1896 ...perhaps the most famous print of the Custer Battle. A wonderful gift for the Custer collector or for an advertisement collector.
Custer Battlefield Museum is proud to be authorized by Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis Missouri to be the first ever to reprint in high fashion, the famous Otto Becker Painting, depicting Custer's Last Stand. This special printing has been published by the Custer Battlefield Museum. The color is extremely vivid, no other printing of this well-know work has had the color depth as this one. You will be very surprised with the detail and awesome color.
1876 was the year of the most controversial Custer Battle and that was also the year Anheuser-Busch started making beer. In 1896 Anheuser-Busch started making lithographs of the painting by F. Otto Becker titled "Custer's Last Fight". During the last 106 years no less than 1,000,000 reproductions have been published and distributed in saloons, bordellos, restaurants and other public places by Anheuser-Busch.
Custer Battlefield Museum is located on the former site of Sitting Bull's camp, on the famous Garryowen bend of the Little Bighorn River, a traditional summer hunting campsite for many Plains Indian tribes. As the Seventh Cavalry approached in late June of 1876, this was the site of one of the largest Indian gatherings ever recorded in North America.
Item Special Note
Measures 27 1/2 x 36 inches. Unframed.
Learn more about Custer Battlefield Museum.
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