Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce a 719-lot Vintage Posters Sale to be held on Friday, Nov. 10. This event will be held live at Potter & Potters gallery, located at 5001 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago, Ill. It will also be live-streamed on the companys website at www.potterauctions.com. The top lot in this sale is #576, Keep Calm and Carry On. This linen backed example from 1939 carries a presale estimate of $8,000-$12,000. The now famous poster was designed by Britains propaganda department, the Ministry of Information, in 1939. It was one of three posters produced in similar styles, each featuring the crown at the top and white text against bold colored backgrounds. While the other two posters, Freedom is in Peril and Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution/Will Bring Us Victory, were widely posted, Keep Calm was rarely displayed despite a print run of several million copies. Most copies were pulped during a wartime paper shortage, and the poster was little known until two copies were discovered in a bookshop in 2000, bringing new life and popularity. David Stone Martins Above and Beyond the Call of Duty / Dorie Miller was printed in 1943 in Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Government Printing Office. This linen backed WWII-era poster honors Dorie Miller, a U.S. Navy second-class cook who died in action. He is depicted wearing his Navy Cross medal at Pearl Harbor, dated May 27, 1942. Willy Hankes Deutsche Lufthansa / Presto Alla Meta is a color lithograph poster dated 1939, printed in Germany. It advertises Lufthansa airlines. This example is the Italian version; it was also printed in English, Danish, and German. Jacques Debuts Cycles Rudge was published in Paris in 1897 by Caby & Chardin. This color stone lithograph promotes bicycles produced by Rudge Whitworth, a British firm that made bicycles, motorcycles, and tires through 1946. It features a man who has unexpectedly stumbled upon an Art Nouveau goddess holding a bicycle in a forest clearing. Joseph Fehers (1908-87) Hawaii / United Air Lines is a ca. 1950s era linen backed poster featuring a beautiful hula dancer standing larger than life on one of the Hawaiian islands, surrounded by tropical fish and plants, Hawaiian men and women on surfboards and outriggers, and a United Boeing Stratocruiser flying overhead. Our auction features posters in categories ranging from war, advertising, travel, and music, covering well over a century of design. Were thrilled with the abundance weve been able to bring to the market this fall, stated Joseph Slabaugh, Potter & Potter Auctions director of cataloging. For further information, call 773-472-1442.