Feb 18, 2021 - Sale 2558

Sale 2558 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

JOHN GILROY (1898-1985)

[GUINNESS / CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II.] 1953.


30x19 3/4 inches, 76 1/4x50 cm. John Waddington, Ltd., Leeds.
Condition B+ / B: staining in upper right image; small tears, repaired tears, creases and abrasions at edges; creases in image. Paper.

"[This] poster was devised by both Gilroy and Stanley Penn. It became the first British poster to have neither copy nor reference to the brand" (Guinness Archive Online Collection).