Swann Galleries: Vintage Posters, 2711, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 07, 2025 - August 07, 2025
Page Size: 311 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Henry Koerner

Someone Talked! 1943.

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,250.00
52 Designer Unknown

Dear God, Keep Them Safe! / Buy War Bonds and Stamps. 1942.

1942 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
53 Various Artists

[Stetson / Loose Talk]. Group of four small format posters. Circa 1940s.

Circa 1940s. USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 875.00
54 Bischoff

Where Keds Have Gone . . . Life Boats for Flyers. 1943.

1943 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
55 Various Artists

The House of Seagram. Group of 5 posters & sheet of postage stamps.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
56 Adolph Treidler

Men at Work. 1940s.

1940s. USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,235.00
57 Worden Wood

Fighting - Funds for Finland Inc. Circa 1942.

Circa 1942. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
58 James Montgomery Flagg

Help China! / China is Helping Us / United China Relief. Circa 1944.

Circa 1944. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,625.00
59 Robert Jones

It's My Right to Fight for America. 1944.

1944 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
60 Frederick Reeves

Be Like Dad / Keep Mum! / Careless Talk Costs Lives. Circa 1940.

Circa 1940. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,062.00
61 Designer Unknown

Keep Calm and Carry On. 1939.

1939 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,125.00
62 Designer Unknown

Your Courage / Will Bring Us Victory. 1939.

1939 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,250.00
63 Austin Cooper

War Production / Post Office Savings Bank. 1943.

1943 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 531.00
64 Designer Unknown

Let Us Go Forward Together. 1940.

1940 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,250.00
65 Designer Unknown

[The American Demons Must Be Shot / Build and Send Planes]. 1940s.

1940s. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
66 Karachentsov (Karachentsev) P.Y.

[Do not let the enemy escape from reckoning!] 1942.

1942 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 406.00
67 Sandor Ek

[Nazi Germany Will Be Conquered in the Shortest Time]. 1945.

1945 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 562.00
68 Designer Unknown

[To Fight Against / Unemployment / Hunger . . . Candidate No. 16 of the National Unity Party]. Circa 1935.

Circa 1935. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 468.00
69 Nikolay Nikolaevich Kogout

[Happy New Year!] 1922.

1922 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
70 Evgeny Nikolaevich Golyakhovsky

[Stalin / Long Live the Creator of the Constitution of the Free, Happy Peoples of the USSR]. 1936.

1936 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
71 Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochergin

[With Tenfold Energy, Work for the Front!] 1941.

1941 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 562.00
72 Viktor Ivanov

[May Day!] 1948.

1948 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,187.00
73 Yuri Neprintsev & Viktor Ivanov

[Russian / World War II Propaganda]. Group of 3 posters. 1940s.

1940s. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 812.00
74 Karel Ludwig & Frantisek Gross

[Greetings to the Red Army]. 1945.

1945 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 593.00
75 Viktor Koretsky

[Russian Post - War / Harvest & Steel]. Group of 3 posters. 1950s.

1950s. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
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