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CHICAGO – On Friday, November 10, Potter & Potter will hold its next Vintage Posters sale, featuring more than 700 lots. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

Bearing the highest estimate in the sale is a 1939 copy of the famed Keep Calm and Carry On poster created by Britain’s Ministry of Information (MOI), aka its propaganda wing. Designed mere weeks before Germany invaded Poland and started World War II, the MOI suffered a bout of cold feet after it had sent almost two and a half million copies to distribution centers across the U.K. According to a blog post by the British government on the history of the poster, “The individual responsible for sanctioning expenditure at the Treasury had, for instance, expressed real fear that ‘the population might well resent having this poster crammed down their throats at every turn’ whilst [leading MOI civil servant A.P.] Waterfield maintained that the slogan was ‘too commonplace to be inspiring’ and feared that ‘it may even annoy people that we should seem to doubt the steadiness of their nerves’.” This unease prompted the MOI to pull the plug on the poster campaign, and the bulk of the Keep Calm and Carry On press run was pulped.

It went unheralded and largely unknown until the year 2000, when two British booksellers, Stuart and Mary Manley, found a few copies of the striking, almost wholly typographic white-on-red poster in a box of second-hand books they had won at auction. The sentiment that turned the MOI against it at the dawn of World War II had, with the passage of time and with Britain’s brave and successful resistance of Nazi forces, seemed to capture and exemplify that age for people enjoying the hindsight afforded by the dawn of the 21st century. The example offered by Potter & Potter carries an estimate of $8,000-$12,000.

Another significant World War II-era poster on offer in the November 10 sale is Above and Beyond the Call of Duty, a 1943 poster designed by David Stone Martin and issued by the U.S. Government Printing Office. It is based on a photograph of Doris “Dorie” Miller in his Navy uniform, wearing the Navy Cross he received for valor during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

As a Black man, Miller would not have been trained to fight. He was serving as a mess attendant, second class when the Japanese ambush hit. After carrying wounded sailors out of danger, Miller seized control of an anti-aircraft gun and proceeded to shoot down at least four, and as many as six, enemy aircraft. His efforts made him the first Black man to earn the Navy Cross, but sadly, racist Navy officials refused to consider him for a Medal of Honor despite a vigorous campaign on his behalf. Miller was subsequently killed in action in November 1943 when a Japanese submarine torpedoed his ship.

While the Dorie Miller poster is not as rare or as iconic as the Keep Calm and Carry On poster, it is significant for being a government-issued, widely distributed portrayal of a Black person as a war hero. Its estimate is $4,000-$6,000.

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1939 Keep Calm And Carry On poster, created by Britain’s Ministry of Information, estimated at $8,000-$12,000 at Potter & Potter Auctions.
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1943 David Stone Martin poster for the U.S. Government Printing Office, ‘Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (Dorie Miller),’ estimated at $4,000-$6,000 at Potter & Potter Auctions.
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1930 N.C. Wyeth poster, ‘Pittsburgh in the Beginning / Pennsylvania Railroad,’ estimated at $2,000-$3,000 at Potter & Potter Auctions.
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1970s Pan Am travel poster for New York, estimated at $1,000-$1,500 at Potter & Potter Auctions.
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Circa-1900s color stone lithograph advertising poster for Puch bicycles, estimated at $1,000-$1,500 at Potter & Potter Auctions.
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