Potter and Potter Auctions: Advertising, Antiques & Coin-Op, 22672, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 07, 2026 - May 07, 2026
Page Size: 148 items in 6 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
279

Cigares Maestro. Anvers: Lithocart

Anvers ca. 1920s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
280

El Principal cigars advertising standee

ca. 1920s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 180.00
281

3 cigarette and tobacco advertising posters

American ca. 1920s-30s USD 60.00 - 90.00 USD 84.00
282 Louis Prang

Louis Prang & Company Published Chromolithographic Card & Ephemera Album

Boston late 19th/early 20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 660.00
283

Sunshine Publishing Co. Trade and Post Card Collection

Philadelphia late 19th century USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 240.00
284

Babbitt's Soap advertising trade cards and ephemera collection

V.p. late 19th century USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
285

Reynolds Brothers Fine Shoes trade card collection

V.p. late 19th century USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 270.00
286

Album of over 250 cyanotype postcards and photographs

ND USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 720.00
287

Album of approximately 350 cyanotype postcards

early 20th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 900.00
288

Album of trade cards, postcards, and luggage labels

19th / 20th century USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 180.00
289

Album of over 150 postcards, photos, and trade cards

ND USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
290

Album of fishing trade cards, snapshots, and ephemera

V.p. early to mid-20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 540.00
291

Album of over 150 postcards and ephemera

ND USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 390.00
292

Album of over 300 American flag and patriotic postcards and ephemera

ND USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 960.00
293

23 chromolithograph trade cards, mostly Christmas

Vp late 19th century USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 180.00
295

Album of approximately 140 postcards and ephemera

ND USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 150.00
296

Binder of approximately 200 postcards and ephemera

1950s USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 270.00
297

Fleischmann & Co. Trade Card and Ephemera Album

New York late 19th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 450.00
298

Binder of ephemera (Hershey's, Apollo, W.H. Baker)

V.p. late 19th/early 20th century USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 960.00
299

Album of over 80 pieces of Walter Baker & Co. ephemera

Dorchester, Mass early 20th century USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 540.00
300

Van Houten's Cocoa. Two binders of ephemera

V.p. late 19th / early 20th century USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 960.00
301

Binder of chocolate and cocoa ephemera

V.p. late 19th/early 20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 450.00
302

Binder of ephemera

V.p. 19th/early 20th century USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 1,140.00
303

Binder of chocolate ephemera

V.p. late 19th/early 20th century USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 660.00
304

CHOCOLATE

late 19th / early 20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 900.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.