?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ANDREW JOHNSON (DATES UNKNOWN) NORTH BERWICK / IT'S QUICKER BY RAIL. Circa 1930. 39 3/4x50 inches, 101x127 cm. Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London. Condition A: minor restoration along unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds. "In old English, the name North Berwick means 'the north barley farmstead' (as 'bere' is barley). It is 25 miles from Edinburgh and has prospered in recent times because of the superb golf along the shores of the Firth . . . This poster has become one of the classics of all, demonstrating as it does the power of art for promotional purposes. The image has gone around the world as a symbol of Scottish golf" (Furness vol. 1 p. 31). One of two stylish posters Johnson designed to promote the golf resort, the other image showing the town in the background. Sportissimo p. 67, Furness vol. 1 p. 31.
