Vintage tourism poster sold for $9,000
By Mikaela Ian Pearman
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Auctioned: Vintage poster
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A vintage poster advertising Bermuda as a travel destination has sold for more than $9,000 at an auction in New York.
The poster, Grace Line, was part of a collection of four posters about Bermuda that were up for auction.
Three are travel destination posters while the fourth was a nod to the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
All four were sold as travel posters highlighting Bermuda but one look at the Bermuda Triangle poster and it doesn't look like the average travel poster.
The posters were auction by Bloomsbury Auctions.
On November 12, it sold a collection of vintage posters promoting travel to Bermuda and the island of Bermuda with the top ten lots all featuring nostalgic images from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Grace Line, Bermuda Every Friday, from 1930 was sold for $9,150. The presale estimate was $2,800 to $3,200.
The lithograph Bermuda from 1970 was sold for $7,320 with the presale estimate $2,000 to $2,500.
Bermuda With A View Of Hamilton, also from 1970, sold for $5,124 with a presale estimate $1,200 to $1,800 and The Furness Bermuda, Liv-Abroad Cruises, sold for $5,490 with a presale estimate of $1,000 to $1,200.
Vintage posters promoting Bermuda are a rare collector's item in the poster market.
Bloomsbury Auctions is the world's leading auction house of rare books and works on paper highly successful sale of vintage and modern posters and is headquartered in London with salesrooms in New York and Rome.
