Help find relatives/owner.

[TP Alexander]

This is not mine. Someone in the Chicago area found it and posted it to Facebook. I am trying to help them out.
Tim



My mom found this behind a picture she bought at a garage sale. The artist is K.B. Ransley - Chicago circa 1943. Please help to share this through Facebook and any other social media in hopes of finding his family. I'm sure they would love to have it!

[Alan Smith]

Tim,

The best bet would be to go back to the location of the yard sale (typically a family/estate matter) and see if the seller can provide any information. Maybe it was a family item of the sellers? Or, perhaps someone in the seller's family bought it years ago and re-purposed it with another print (keeping the original as backing)?

Being done by a Chicago artist, maybe the sailor was passing through the Great Lakes Naval Training Station during WWII and got this done to send home to his family?

Again, tracking it back via the yard sale seller is (IMO) about the only option that may be available.

Good luck and please keep us posted on the matter.

Alan

[TP Alexander]

Thanx. Passing it along to the source.
Tim

[Dan M]

He looks like Kirk Douglas who was in the Navy during WWII.

[Jean-Loup]

"Please help to share this through Facebook and any other social media in hopes of finding his family. I'm sure they would love to have it! "

I love doing research on named items found on the battlefield. However, in cases of items found at garage sales or in garbages, the items was most likely gotten rid of by the family itself, making the search much less interesting. It is always worth a try however as one never knows the circumstances.