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and workmanlike


Far left: Englische Graphik by Edward Alexander Wadsworth – £16,000.


Left: Niklaus Stoecklin’s PKZ poster – £11,000.


Below left: Roger Broder’s port view of Villefranche-sur-Mer made £5000.


Below: £10,000 for one of Geo Ham’s popular Monaco posters.


Bottom left: a 1935 British Airways advertisement for flights to Scandinavia fetched £3000.


“There was a good take- up for posters by Roger Broders, with five out of six lots finding new homes”


on the phone for £11,000 against a £6000-8000 estimate. Automobile posters are a mainstay at


these sales and, unsurprisingly, Monaco racing subjects generated the keenest interest. Two 1930s, 3ft 11in x 2ft 7in (1.19m x 79cm) examples by Geo Ham (1900-72) advertising the prestigious grand prix event in Monte Carlo sold for a combined total of £17,500 to separate buyers on the phones. A third dating from 1952 and of similar size by Bernard Minne (b.1918) sold for over double its lower estimate in the room for £6000. Retro travel posters offer a glimpse


of the luxuries of travel in the past and continue to appeal to a broad range of buyers. There was a good take-up for posters


by Roger Broders (1883-1953), with five out of the six lots offered finding new homes. The top prices were paid for his views of Southern French ports. A 3ft 3in x 2ft ½in (99 x 62cm) Villefranche-sur- Mer poster from c.1930 sold to the book at a mid-estimate £5000, and a 3ft 3½in x 2ft 1in (1m x 63cm) poster of Marseille from the same date, just tipped top estimate at £6200, selling on the phone. Another strong seller was a 2ft 5in


x 20in (75 x 50cm) British Airways poster from 1935 advertising flights to Scandinavia (between Breakfast and Tea) which doubled low estimate at £3000. Christie’s broader 325-lot vintage film


posters sale, held at the same location on November 30, sold 70 per cent of lots


A further selection of highlights from CSK’s travel and vintage posters sale on


November 3 and film posters sale on November 30.


From the top:


Barbarella (1968) starring Jane Fonda – £300.


Roger Perot’s design for Delahaye – £5500.


Les Cigarettes Mekka (1919) – £8500.


Mean Streets (1973) – £850.


Withnail and I (1987) – £300.


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – £300.


Below a double- sided mobile key poster of Cary Grant in Notorious (1946) – £480.


posted several new records including the £65,000 paid for a James Bond poster by Robert E. McGinnis for Diamonds Are Forever (see ATG No 1999), this was a quirkier auction with a wider range of lower-valued lots. “It was a workmanlike sale really, and


did what it was supposed to do,” said Christie’s specialist Rachel Reilly. Now in their 21st year, these sales


– 80 per cent by value – netting a total of £202,190. Compared to the last sale held in June, which totalled £357,180 and


have not recently hit the heights achieved in the late 1990s, when many definitive collections were being built and demand was at a peak. Yet there are signs this market is once again on the rise and benefiting from a tool not available back then – online bidding. A third of lots at this sale were bought or directly underbid online through Christie’s Live (launched in 2006) from places such as the USA, Canada, Switzerland and Puerto Rico.


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