# Cyril Kenneth Bird - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T05:09:16.344Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 59
- Lots with prices: 50
- First auction date: 2001-10-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-04-30
- Median realised price: $858
- Price range: $45 to $4,375

## Market Takeaway
Cyril Kenneth Bird shows solid auction liquidity with 59 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $858. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-04-30.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($858\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $400 and $1,700.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 52% (26 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 48% (24 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $2,600
- Previous 12 months median: $800
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-04-30
- Days since latest sale: 294
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 16 lots
- Bonhams: 15 lots
- Onslows: 7 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 7 lots
- Roseberys: 5 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Canterbury Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Dominic Winter Auctions: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Golding Young & Mawer: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-04-30 | FOUGASSE \(CYRIL KENNETH BIRD\) \(BRITISH, 1887–1965\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £2,600
2. 2024-03-05 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE\), British 1887\-1965, \- Careless Talk Costs Lives, c. 1940 \(set of eight posters\);  | Roseberys | £800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-fougasse-cyril-kenneth-bird-cbe-british-1887-1965-careless-talk-costs-lives-c-1940-set-of-eight-posters-29-c-9824f8b81d
3. 2023-11-15 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE\), \(1887\-1965\) 'Careless Talk Costs Lives' print, circa 1940  | Roseberys | £120
4. 2023-09-05 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE\), Careless Talk Costs Lives, c. 1940  | Roseberys | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-fougasse-cyril-kenneth-bird-cbe-careless-talk-costs-lives-c-1940-95-c-44343db85a
5. 2023-06-15 | FOUGASSE \(CYRIL KENNETH BIRD CBE\), BRITISH 1887\-1965, CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES \(POSTER\), C. 1940;  | Roseberys | £300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-fougasse-cyril-kenneth-bird-cbe-british-1887-1965-careless-talk-costs-lives-poster-c-1940-208-c-643414fbc0
6. 2022-08-04 | FOUGASSE \(CYRIL KENNETH BIRD, 1887\-1965\). CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES. Group of 9 small format posters. Circa 1940. Each 12¼x8 inches, 3 | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,875
7. 2022-03-08 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE\), British 1887\-1965\- Please Let Passengers Off The Car First, c. | Roseberys | £400
8. 2021-10-19 | FOUGASSE \(CYRIL KENNETH BIRD, 1887 – 1965\) CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES | Lyon & Turnbull | £1,700
9. 2019-09-11 | FOUGASSE \(CYRIL KENNETH BIRD, 1887\-1965\) CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES 12½ x 8 in. \(32 x 20 cm.\) each | Christie's | £4,375
10. 2018-08-01 | FOUGASSE \(CYRIL KENNETH BIRD, 1887\-1965\). CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES. Group of 8 small format posters. Circa 1940. Each approximately 12 | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,125
11. 2017-03-16 | FOUGASSE \(CYRIL KENNETH BIRD, 1887\-1965\). CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES. Group of 8 posters. Circa 1940. Each approximately 12x8 inches, 31 | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,430
12. 2016-06-22 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird 1887 \- 1965\), pen, ink and watercolour \- Fall | Reeman Dansie | £380
13. 2016-06-21 | Cyril Kenneth Bird \('Fougasse'\) \(1887\-1965\)'CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES'A WWII propaganda poster31.5 x 20cm | Sworders | £120
14. 2015-06-04 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887\-1965\) CARELESS TALK COSTS LIV | Christie's | £2,125
15. 2015-02-24 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird\) \(1887 \- 1965\) \- The Telephone Call Pen in black ink, on wove paper Signed Fougasse upper left, variously inscribed 34.5 x 10.5 cm. \(13 1/2 x 4 in.\) With a group of four James Gillray caricatures, later impressions, and | Dreweatts 1759 | £1,178
16. 2014-11-13 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887\-1965\) THIS IS ONE WAY TO HAIL A BUS... l | Christie's | £2,750
17. 2014-11-13 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887\-1965\) CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES eight li | Christie's | £1,500
18. 2014-09-04 | Cyril Kenneth Bird \(1887\-1965\). Careless Talk Cost | Golding Young & Mawer | £340
19. 2014-08-06 | FOUGASSE \(KENNETH CYRIL BIRD, 1887\-1965\). CARLESS TALK COSTS LIVES. Group of 8 posters. Circa 1940. Each approximately 12x8 inches, 31x | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
20. 2014-05-21 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887\-1965\) | Christie's | £1,625
21. 2014-05-21 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887\-1965\) | Christie's | N/A
22. 2014-05-21 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887\-1965\) | Christie's | £3,000
23. 2014-05-21 | Fougasse \(Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887\-1965\) | Christie's | £3,500
24. 2013-08-07 | FOUGASSE \(KENNETH CYRIL BIRD, 1887\-1965\). CARELESS TALK. Group of 8 posters. Circa 1940. Each approximately 12x8 inches, 31x20 cm. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,625

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