Rare vintage poster featuring Balmoral Castle to be sold at auction. | Catch My Job

A rare vintage poster featuring a painting of Balmoral Castle is among the collections to be sold at auction this week.

A selection of train posters depicting sights from across Scotland will be sold during a livestream on Thursday.

It was organized by fine arts and design auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull in collaboration with poster specialist Tomkinson Churcher.

A collection of seven lithograph posters were produced between 1934 and 1955 to encourage people to travel by train.

A poster with the Scottish royal family’s residence was created by artist Kenneth Smith in 1955 to highlight Royal Deeside.

Another colorful design by Frank Henry Mason illuminates Rothesay on Bute Island.

Both posters are expected to bring between £400 and £600.

‘Wake up warm nostalgia’

The poster, which is expected to fetch the highest total on Thursday, is an Art Deco-style depiction of the Forth Bridge.

The collection is valued between £6,000 and £8,000 as the centerpiece of the collection.

Designed by LNER fine artist and commercial artist Henry George Gawthorn in 1928.

other posters It features iconic images of Fife Coast, The Scots Guard marching on Princes Street and Loch Katrine with Ben Venue in the background.

Sophie Churcher of Tomkinson Churcher said, “The poster being offered for auction evokes warm nostalgia. And it represents a time when traveling by train was a real adventure.

“The results are therefore highly desirable. And we expect them to be popular with collectors who want to own transportation history.

“With prices starting at £400 for some It will be interesting to see what they pull off.”

thousands of posters

Train enthusiasts have paid huge sums for rare travel posters that have been auctioned off in recent years.

A 1932 Night Scotsman LNER poster designed by Robert Bartlett was bought for £15,000 in 2019.

It is part of a 14-piece collection, which features a picture of Eilean Donan’s castle, which has all sold for more than £20,000.

Another poster designed to promote Scotland’s railways is the Gleneagles Hotel when it recently opened.

It was auctioned for £6,825 in 2018.

A poster showing Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute is part of a selection discovered in the attic of a former railroad worker in Auchterader.

Eight posters were auctioned by Lindsay Burns in Perth in April 2019.

The selling price of a single poster was published after that. But it sells for £600, more than £120.