Auction Highlights: Rare & Important Travel Posters — October 10, 2024

At Auction Thursday, October 10 at 12:00 PM ET

Catalogue & Bidding

October’s travel poster auction is a journey around the world and a trek through the Who’s Who of famous travel poster designers, with works by Leslie Ragan, Bern Hill, Roger Broders, Gert Sellheim, Otto Baumberger, Hugo d’Alesi, Mario Borgoni, Mark von Arenburg, Stan Galli and many others.

From the golf links of France, through the coastal towns of Japan, from Hawaiian beaches to the Russian steppes, and from the United Kingdom, across Europe and all the way to India and Australia, many of the world’s major tourist sites are explored. Airlines, trains, and ocean liners are all on parade as the means of transportation for willing tourists to visit some of the most beautiful and exotic places around the globe.

(left) A. Stepanoff, The Trans-Siberian Express / 12 Days Paris – Peking, circa 1925. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500; (right) Dick Negus & Philip Sharland, Fly By Boac / Middle East, 1954. Estimate $700 to $1,000.
(left) Joseph Feher, Southern California / United Air Lines, circa 1950. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500; (right) Roger Broders, Sur La Cote D’Azur, circa 1931. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500.
(left) Edward McKnight Kauffer, Shop Between 10 & 4 / The Quiet Hours, 1921. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000; (right) N. Strekalovsky, Misr – Airwork / Egyptian Airlines, circa 1934. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.
(left) Mario Borgoni, Genève Et Le Mont – Blanc, circa 1910. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500; (right) Frank Ormrod, Regent’s Park / Baker Street Station, 1937. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500.
(left) Roger Soubie, Vichy / La Reine Des Villes D’eaux, 1928. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000; (right) A. Sauroy, Touraine / Golf – Links, circa 1900. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
(left) Joseph Feher, Southern California / United Air Lines, circa 1950. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500; (left) Maurice A. Miles, For The Zoo / Underground, 1933. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500; (right) Gert Sellheim, Australia / Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, circa 1937. Estimate $1,200 to $1,800

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