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Potter and Potter Auctions: Advertising, Antiques & Coin-Op
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Advertising, Antiques & Coin-Op | Total Sales (USD) | 53,652.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 07, 2026 - May 07, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 26,460.00 |
| Sale Number | #22672 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 44,435.00 |
| Total Lots | 148 | ||
| Sold Lots | 139.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 27,910.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 93.92% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 46,985.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 9 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 114.19% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 307 | CHOCOLATE |
late 19th/early 20th century | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 5,280.00 | |
| 228 | McAlpin & Co.'s Chocolate Cream Plug Tobacco |
ca. 1900s | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 2,040.00 | |
| 327 | Samoset Chocolate Co. Advertising Memorabilia |
early 20th century | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,680.00 | |
| 333 | CHOCOLATE |
bulk late 19th / early 20th century | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,320.00 | |
| 344 | Long's Chocolate Dips advertising diecut |
ca. 1890s | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 1,320.00 | |
| 302 | Binder of ephemera |
19th/early 20th century | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,140.00 | |
| 308 | CHOCOLATE |
early, and some mid-20th century | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,140.00 | |
| 332 | Runkel's New York Cocoa & Chocolates trade cards (uncut sheet) |
ca. 1900s | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 1,140.00 | |
| 292 | Album of over 300 American flag and patriotic postcards and ephemera |
ND | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 960.00 | |
| 298 | Binder of ephemera (Hershey's, Apollo, W.H. Baker) |
late 19th/early 20th century | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 960.00 | |
| 300 | Van Houten's Cocoa. Two binders of ephemera |
late 19th / early 20th century | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 960.00 | |
| 287 | Album of approximately 350 cyanotype postcards |
early 20th century | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 900.00 | |
| 304 | CHOCOLATE |
late 19th / early 20th century | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 900.00 | |
| 341 | Eleven Vintage and Antiquarian Volumes on Chocolate |
1891; 1915; 1896; 1892; 1866; 1920; 1914; 1915; 1931; 1921; nd | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 900.00 | |
| 266 | Faure | Group of 5 product display signs |
ca. 1920s-1930s | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 286 | Album of over 250 cyanotype postcards and photographs |
ND | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 720.00 | |
| 343 | Walter Baker | Walter Baker & Co.'s Chocolate poster |
ca. 1900s | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 365 | C. Fell | C.J. Fell & Brother Philadelphia advertising poster |
1856 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 377 | Schepp's Cocoanut trade card original artwork |
ND (early 20th century) | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 720.00 | |
| 247 | Union Pacific Streamliner "City of Los Angeles" poster |
ND | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | USD 660.00 | |
| 282 | Louis Prang | Louis Prang & Company Published Chromolithographic Card & Ephemera Album |
late 19th/early 20th century | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 660.00 |
| 303 | Binder of chocolate ephemera |
late 19th/early 20th century | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 660.00 | |
| 352 | W. Baker | W. Baker & Co. American & Vanilla Chocolates advertising poster |
ca. 1860s-70s | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 660.00 |
| 250 | Eagle Mikado Pencils "Buy Your School Supplies Here" posters (20) |
circa 1930s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 600.00 | |
| 306 | CHOCOLATE & COCOA |
late 19th/early 20th century | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 570.00 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
