Posters dominated the content and the sale’s best-seller was this rare set of five lithograph posters from 1917 by Burkhard Mangold detailing the winter sporting delights of Davos.
They sold for £15,000, the lower end of a £15,000-20,000 estimate, but nonetheless established a new auction high for a ski poster, beating the £12,000 paid in the auctioneers’ sale last year for a poster of Gstaad.
Rare set of five lithograph posters from 1917 by Burkhard Mangold
Christie’s South Kensington’s Ski sale, held annually in February, was doubly topical this year, coinciding with the Winter Olympics.
