Leading the field will be a single-owner collection of 1970s Formula One posters and ephemera. The posters cover British driver James Hunt winning the 1976 world championship. Estimates for the posters all range in the $150-$300 area. Ephemera includes a great collection of race car stickers estimated at $105-$150.
Onslows has a stunning group of British railway posters by Terence Cuneo, the artist who often put his signature running mouse somewhere in his poster. The group includes Bon Voyage the continental boat train and Forging Ahead, showing classic British steam locomotives. Both are expected to sell for in excess of $1,500. There are more than 100 other classic railway posters, including the classic LMS & Cunard Liner and the Business Man’s London published by the London Underground in 1930, estimated at $750-$1,050.
In World War II propaganda the auction will offer some unusual posters for the Home Front, including Useful Jobs girls can do to win the war and Abram Games’s powerful image If he should fall is your blood there to save him?” This poster could sell for between $450 and $600.
Continental posters include a small collection of 1960s French advertising hoarding posters by Villemot and Savignac’s including his famous R4, and the Art Deco Chapeaux Mossant by Olsky, estimated at $2,250-$3,000.
Onslows began auctioning vintage posters and ephemera in 1984. The auction house specialized in vintage advertising and travel posters, and propaganda posters of the World Wars.
Over 26 years Onslows has sold many remarkable collections of posters. Notable discoveries include the $300,000 worth of London and North Eastern Railway posters stored under a station platform in Norfolk. Another similar collection found under the bed of a railwayman’s widow sold for $450,000. And most recently the man from Dublin who found a roll of White Star Titanic posters in a roof space. These sold for $30,000.
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