Rare & Important Travel Posters — Featuring Highlights from the Victor Ryerson Collection: November 10, 2022 Auction Highlights View Lots Browse Catalogue Lot 66: Tom Purvis, East Coast Joys / Travel By L.N.E.R, set of 6 posters, 1931. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. An unparalleled collection of American railway posters assembled by Victor Ryerson includes rare examples from the late nineteenth century, exceptional streamliner imagery from the 1920s and ‘30s, and 18 posters by Maurice Logan. On offer will be scarce and wonderful images from the Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, Santa Fe, and other railroad companies. Railways At Auction November 10: left to right: Lot 133: Sam Hyde Harris, Southern Pacific’s New Daylight, gouache maquette, 1937. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000; Lot 69: Alfred Reginald Thomson, LNER / Take Me By the Flying Scotsman, circa 1936. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000; Lot 178: Leslie Ragan, The New 20th Century Limited, 1939. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000. Ocean Liners At Auction November 10: left: Lot 83: Maurice Logan, To the Far East / Canadian Pacific / White Empress Route, 1936. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000; right: Lot 84: Montague Birrell Black, French Line C.G.T / Normandie, circa 1938. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500. Related Reading Collecting Railway Posters Set Sail on the Open Seas With a Fleet of Ocean Liner Posters International Travel Additionally, the auction will feature posters touting exotic destinations from the beaches of the French Riviera and the work of Roger Broders (Antibes, circa 1928, L’Été sur La Cote d’Azur, 1930, and La Route des Alpes, circa 1920), to the steppes of Siberia (P. Merinov, The Transsiberian Express, 1930), and to the glories of the Mughal emperors of India (Agra, Taj Mahal). Other highlights include Frank Newbould’s seldom-seen 1925 poster advertising travel on the LNER to Berlin, Maurice Lauro’s 1928 Art Deco gem for Trouville on the Normandy coast, and impressive classics such as Leslie Ragan’s 1939 New 20th Century Limited, John Held Jr.’s 1925 Nantucket, and David Klein’s psychedelic masterpiece New York Fly TWA. Lot 62: Tom Purvis, Cruden Bay, circa 1925. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. At Auction November 10: left: Lot 55: Maurice Lauro, Trouville, 1928. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000; right: Lot 54: Jean Gabriel Domergue, L’hiver Á Monte-Carlo, 1927. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000. Air Travel At Auction November 10: left to right: Lot 5: Rhys Williams, Qantas Empire Airways, circa 1938. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000; Lot 200: Paul George Lawler, Fly to South Seas Isles / Via Pan American, circa 1938. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000; Lot 92: Hans Wagula, Aeroput Jugoslavija, circa 1931. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000. Get Notifications for Auction Day Sign-Up for Email Updates Download the Swann Galleries App Share Facebook Twitter October 19, 2022Author: Nicholas D. LowryCategory: Vintage Posters Tags: Alfred Reginald Gabriel Domergue Leslie Ragan Maurice Lauro Maurice Logan Montague Birrell Black Railway Posters Sam Hyde Harris Tom Purvis travel posters Previous October 2022 Sale of Early Printed Books Brings the Highest-Grossing Auction for the Category at Swann Next Rare Vintage Print of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ Brings $305k in October 2022 Auction of Fine Photographs Recommended Posts Collector’s Guide: Railway Posters Vintage Posters October 12, 2020 Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters Vintage Posters October 29, 2018 Gail Chisholm: A Life in Posters Vintage Posters February 16, 2018