Potter and Potter Auctions: Vintage Posters: featuring the Collection of Michael Corsi, 22867, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 11, 2026 - June 11, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | Matter Herbert (1907-1984) | America Calling / Civilian Defense |
Washington | 1941 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 177 | Carlu Jean (1900-1997) | America's Answer! / Production |
Washington, D.C. | 1941 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 812.50 |
| 178 | Richards Walter (1907-2006) | Housewives! / Save Waste Fats for Explosives! |
Circa 1943 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 112.50 | |
| 179 | Wyeth N C (1882-1945) | Buy War Bonds |
Washington, D.C. | 1942 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,062.50 |
| 180 | Kem (Kimon Evan Marengo) | One by One, His Legs Will be Broken |
Circa 1941 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 750.00 | |
| 181 | Seven Foreign Roosevelt Propaganda Posters |
USA | Circa 1943 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 182 | Hirsch Joseph | Till We Meet Again / Buy War Bonds |
Washington | 1942 | USD 125.00 - 175.00 | USD 100.00 |
| 183 | Sloan Robert Smullyan (1915-2013) | Doing All You Can, Brother? / Buy War Bonds |
Washington | 1943 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 184 | Kanelous George | 25 Books, including: Make Victory Secure / Buy Victory Bonds |
Washington | 1942-1948 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 185 | 25 Books, including: Where our men are fighting OUR FOOD IS FIGHTING |
Washington | 1942-1945 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 406.25 | |
| 186 | Mount Reginald | N Books, including: A Nurse Gave Me Penicillin |
Washington | 1942-1945 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 468.75 |
| 187 | Savage Steele | Three Women in World War II propaganda posters |
1940s | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 312.50 | |
| 188 | Shahn Ben (1898-1969) | We French workers warn you…defeat means starvation, slavery, death |
Washington, D.C. | 1942 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 156.25 |
| 189 | Get Your Farm in the Fight! / Use Conservation Methods for Bigger Yields Now! |
Washington | 1942 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 156.25 | |
| 190 | Newman Emily | N Books, including: We Are Now In This War |
Washington | 1941-1942 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 191 | Snider Don; Keppler Victor; Wilkinsons J Walter; Wilkinsons Walter G | Give War Bonds / The Present With a FUTURE; Buy War Bonds / Third War Loan; Wanted - Fighting Dollars / Make Every Pay-Day Bond-Day |
Washington | 1942/1943 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 192 | Produce For Victory |
Chicago | 1942 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 193 | Why we want the Germans to leave this country |
Prague | ca. 1945 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 2,125.00 | |
| 194 | Nur Hitler |
Augsburg | [ca. 1932] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 3,000.00 | |
| 195 | Construction Workers! / Now You Can Volunteer for Service with the Army or Navy |
1943 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 156.25 | ||
| 196 | USA in Action |
Washington | 1943/1944 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 197 | Coiner Charles (1898-1989) | Official Civilian Defense Insignia Poster |
Washington | 1942 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 112.50 |
| 198 | Group of approximately 15 World War II Newsmaps |
New York | 1943-1945 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 218.75 | |
| 199 | N Books, including: The Expulsion of Axis Forces From North Africa |
New York | Circa 1943; 1943; Circa 1941 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 312.50 | |
| 200 | The more we produce the quicker this will end |
Washington | 1944 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
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