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Potter and Potter Auctions: Vintage Posters

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Auction Name Vintage Posters Total Sales (USD) 304,914.00
Auction Date November 07, 2024 - November 07, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 232,175.00
Sale Number #1192 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 368,325.00
Total Lots 636
Sold Lots 532 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 267,025.00
% of Lots Sold 83.65% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 424,425.00
Unsold Lots 104 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 71.84%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
31

Gateway to the World's Fair / Pan Am.

1961 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 18,000.00
76 RAGAN, Leslie (1897 -- 1972).

Chicago / New York Central Lines.

1929 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,800.00
537 MUCHA, Alphonse (1860 -- 1939).

Theatre de la Renaissance / Sarah Bernhardt / La Samaritaine.

1897 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,600.00
71 MORAN, Thomas (1837--1926).

Yellowstone Park / Northern Pacific.

USD 1,200.00 - 2,400.00 USD 5,280.00
538 MUCHA, Alphonse (1860 -- 1939).

Lefevre -- Utile / Sarah Bernhardt.

1903 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,320.00
75

Burlington Route / Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.

ca. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,080.00
351

Let Us Go Forward Together.

1940 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,080.00
66

New York / TWA.

Circa 1976. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,840.00
102 KLEIN, David (1918-2005).

Fly TWA / New York. Airline poster with a glittering mid-century rendering of Times Square.

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,840.00
64 BINDER, Joseph (1898--1972).

New York World's Fair / The World of Tomorrow.

1939 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,360.00
1 ATHERTON, John (1900--1952).

Hawaii by Clipper / Pan American World Airways.

1948 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,120.00
32

Caribbean / Pan American.

Circa 1960s. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,120.00
2 VON ARENBURG, Mark.

Fly to Rio by Clipper / Pan American World Airways.

Circa 1940s. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,880.00
425 CHUNG LING SOO (William Ellsworth Robinson, 1861--1918).

A Name to Conjure With / Chung Ling Soo / Marvelous Chinese Conjurer.

ca. 1910s. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,640.00
504 MUCHA, Alphonse (1860 -- 1939).

Salon des Cent. Maitres de l'Affiche Pl. 94.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,640.00
112 KOR, Paul (Kornowski) (1926--2001).

Boeing 707 / El Al Israel Air Lines.

1960 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,400.00
416

[CIRCUS]. Walter L. Main Trained Wild Animal 3 Ring Circus / Polar Bear.

Circa 1910s. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,400.00
547 BOUCHET, Camille.

Cognac Jacquet.

ca. 1920s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,280.00
58

New York / Pan Am.

1970s. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,160.00
61 BAUDOUIN, Pierre (1921--1971).

Air France / Paris.

1948 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,160.00
332 ROCKWELL, Norman (1894-1978).

[The Four Freedoms]. Group of 4 posters.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,040.00
17 KAUFFER, Edward McKnight (1890--1954).

Bermuda / Fly Pan Am. Offset lithograph depicting several sailboats.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
65 STAEHLE, Albert (1899--1974).

New York World's Fair.

1939 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,920.00
385

[WORLD WAR II]. Group of 22 propaganda posters.

1940s. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,920.00
630 FRYKHOLM, Steve (b. 1942).

Eleven Herman Miller Summer Picnic Posters.

1970s--90s USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD