Old pre BR nationalisation railway posters set to fetch £1million at auction.

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Some ex BR rail worker died leaving a huge collection of old railway posters and station signs unwanted after British Rail nationalised the regional railways

The Collectors widow and two grown-up children had no idea how much his collection was worth and were ‘pleasantly surprised’ by the valuation which is estimated to be worth up to £1million.



Is there any old classic CIE posters lying about or were they all destroyed like everything else

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253414/Trainspotters-collection-old-railway-posters-set-sell-1million.html

Cookie_Monster

:eek::eek::eek:

In fairness having this on your wall would look cool (apart from the text strip)


EDIT: ya can't travel anywhere on them posters, they're not a modern form of transport, should be allowed in the C&T forum, rabble rabble rabble

Run_to_da_hills

Some Irish ones.

L1011

My brother has a few I think originals of Irish ones from the British railways that had operations here (as well as what I think is a repro, unfortunately, of the cessation of service posters for the County Donegal JRC) on his wall. Look rather good, not worth that kind of cash though!

Judgement Day

There are still lots of Irish ones available if you have the cash and the best place to start is at Gallery 29 in Dublins' Molesworth Street see link here: http://www.gallery29.ie/

Expect to pay from €500+ for even the most basic examples - not like the one below which will be four figures!

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Note the absense of urban traffic and bicycles.

FlameoftheWest

They are all so beautiful. The Bon Voyage one is just amazingly elegant and filled with atmosphere.

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FlameoftheWest wrote: »

They are all so beautiful. The Bon Voyage one is just amazingly elegant and filled with atmosphere.

Back then people who drove trains got their hands dirty unlike today.

Alun

FlameoftheWest wrote: »

They are all so beautiful. The Bon Voyage one is just amazingly elegant and filled with atmosphere.

That is one by a famous artist called Terence Cuneo. Any of you, like me, who was into model railways in their youth will recognise his style from the covers of Triang / Hornby catalogues from the 60's and early 70's, see here http://www.trianghornby.net/catalog.html.

There's some more information on him and his work here http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/detail.php?type=related&kv=1193&t=people

Judgement Day

Another poster from my collection, this one bought for about €100 thirty years ago from a dealer in the Market Arcade in South Great Georges Street. The same dealer had loads of them which along with some far larger, and more impressive ones, which had been cleared out of a CIE office in the North Wall and dumped in a skip. Hard to believe that anybody could be daft enough not to realise their value.
The posters were file copies held by the railway company and had been well stored until .......The Dominion Line posters survived in quantity as they were never despatched for display at the company's stations - the sailings having been cancelled due the ships being requistioned for use as troop transports for the Boer War!