Sheffield railway poster has antiques valuation of £300

A Sheffield Steel Works poster has been given an antiques valuation of between £200 and £300.

The railway item - which is 80 years old - was produced in or around 1930, the Sheffield Star reports.

It is set to go under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions in London and was produced by Cambridge-born artist Norman Wilkinson, who was paid less than £300 for the original artwork.

In addition to this, the promotional material, produced to advertise a railway company at a time when holidays abroad were unaffordable to most and when few people owned cars, is 40 inches by 50 inches in size.

This comes after a painting by artist LS Lowry that depicted a street behind Victoria train station in Manchester fetched £713,000 at auction, beating its antiques valuation of between £400,000 and £600,000.

It was one of many artworks that generated a total of more than £5 million at Christie's.

Posted by Lisa Marriott