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Auction Name: Advertising and Transport
Auction Date: 07/10/2025 - 07/10/2025
Sale Number: #71025
Total Lots: 44
Sold Lots: 38
Lots Sold: 86.36%
Unsold Lots: 6

Total Sales (GBP): 10,500.30
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 2,970.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 4,820.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 4,150.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 6,640.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 158.14%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2379	A scarce Rock Brewery, Brighton Ltd pictorial enamel advertising sign for their 'Oat Malt Stout'		GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 3,486.00
2380	A scarce Rock Brewery, Brighton Ltd pictorial enamel advertising sign for their 'Late Dinner Ale'		GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,618.50
2336	An archive of material relating to the 1970s commercial cargo airline 'Redcoat', as featured in the television series 'Buccaneer'	1970s	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 1,120.50
2371	A Sharman's Millinery 'Is The Talk of Brighton' enamel advertising sign		GBP 60.00 - 90.00	GBP 323.70
2358	A Kodak lithograph printed advertising poster		GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 273.90
2372	A Mr Pennington 'To Be Let Furnished' double-sided enamel advertising sign		GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 249.00
2362	A Jones' Sewing Machines 'Busy Bee' pictorial enamel advertising sign		GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 224.10
2370	A Robertson's Golliberry Bramble Seedless Jam enamel advertising sign		GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 224.10
2378	A Lyons Tea double-sided enamel advertising sign		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 199.20
2354	A Wills's Gold Flake cigarettes advertising celluloid showcard		GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 186.75
2373	A 'The People' newspaper enamel advertising sign		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 174.30
2366	A Park Drive 'For Pleasure' enamel advertising sign		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 161.85
2348	An Adkin's Nut Brown Tobacco advertising celluloid showcard with an illustration of gentlemen bowling outside an inn		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 161.85
2376	A Blue Bell double-sided enamel advertising sign		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 161.85
2369	A Wills's Cigarettes Gold Flake double-sided enamel advertising sign		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 124.50
2349	A Camels cigarettes tin advertising thermometer sign with slogan 'Camels for smoking enjoyment'		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 118.28
2367	A Brooke Bond Dividend Tea enamel advertising sign		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 118.28
2368	A Thorn's Digestive Farmhouse Bread enamel advertising sign		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 118.28
2350	A W.D. & H.O. Wills 'Capstan' Navy Cut Cigarettes celluloid advertising showcard with an illustration of jockeys on a stirrup		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 112.05
2382	A French enamel no-parking sign		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 112.05

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