# Montague Birrell Black - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T18:17:30.820Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 29
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2008-10-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-29
- Median realised price: $976
- Price range: $240 to $11,875

## Market Takeaway
Montague Birrell Black has 29 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $976. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($976\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($520 to $4,270\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 50% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40.9% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 9.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $900
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-29
- Days since latest sale: 184
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 15 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Poster Auctions International Inc: 2 lots
- Addisons Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Batemans Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Michael J Bowman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-29 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884–1964\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £900
2. 2024-02-29 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE / TO SOUTH AFRICA AUSTRALIA STRAITS & CHINA. Circa 1920s. 40¼x25 inches, 102¼x | Swann Auction Galleries | $487
3. 2023-11-12 | Ship in Twilight. | Poster Auctions International Inc | $1,200
4. 2023-10-25 | Montague Birrell Black \(1889\-1964\) Sunny Rhyl North Wales | Lyon & Turnbull | £1,500
5. 2023-08-03 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE / TO SOUTH AFRICA AUSTRALIA STRAITS & CHINA. Circa 1920s. 40¼x25 inches, 102¼ | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
6. 2022-11-10 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). FRENCH LINE C.G.T / NORMANDIE. Circa 1938. 39¾x25 inches, 101x63½ cm. | Swann Auction Galleries | $11,875
7. 2020-08-27 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). \[WHITE STAR LINE / OLYMPIC & TITANIC.\] Circa 1910. 29x39 inches, 75x101 cm. \[Liverpool Printing & S | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,500
8. 2020-08-27 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). PORTSTEWART / NORTHERN IRELAND. Circa 1950s. 39x25 inches, 99x65 cm. R.B. Macmillan Ltd., Derby, En | Swann Auction Galleries | $687
9. 2019-11-14 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). \[WHITE STAR LINE / OLYMPIC & TITANIC.\] Circa 1910. 29x39 inches, 75x101 cm. \[Liverpool Printing & S | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
10. 2019-11-14 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). WHITE STAR \- DOMINION LINE / TO CANADA. Circa 1920. 40x24 inches, 102x62 cm. The Liverpool Printing | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
11. 2018-08-01 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). PORTSTEWART / NORTHERN IRELAND. Circa 1950s. 39x25 inches, 99x65 cm. R.B. Macmillan Ltd., Derby, En | Swann Auction Galleries | $390
12. 2017-10-26 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE / TO SOUTH AFRICA AUSTRALIA STRAITS & CHINA. Circa 1920s. 40x25 inches, 101x63 | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,000
13. 2017-06-22 | French Line/Normandie. ca. 1938. | Poster Auctions International Inc | $5,500
14. 2016-12-13 | Montague Birrell Black \(British, 1884\-1964\) \- RAF Bomb & Machine\-Gun German Military Camouflaged Camp | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
15. 2015-11-19 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). \[WHITE STAR LINE / OLYMPIC & TITANIC.\] Circa 1910. 29x39 inches, 73x99 cm. \[Liverpool Printing & St | Swann Auction Galleries | $8,450
16. 2015-03-21 | Montague Birrell Black \(1884\-1964\) \- gouache \-' HMS Queen Elizabeth with Allied Fleet covering the Landing of Allied Forces at Dardanelles' \- signed, inscribed & dated \(19\)15, 12" x 15.5" | Michael J Bowman | £520
17. 2014-08-06 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). DUNOON / ON THE FIRTH OF CLYDE. Circa 1955. 39x24 inches, 101x63 cm. Jordison & Co., Ltd., London. | Swann Auction Galleries | $480
18. 2014-06-20 | Montague Birrell Black \(b.1884\): Two vessels and | Batemans Auctioneers & Valuers | £300
19. 2012-11-08 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-1964\). \[WHITE STAR LINE / OLYMPIC & TITANIC.\] Circa 1910. 29x39 inches, 73x99 cm. | Swann Auction Galleries | $11,875
20. 2011-11-11 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-?\). LONDON 2026 A.D. \- THIS IS ALL IN THE AIR / TO \- DAY \-\- THE SOLID COMFORT OF THE UNDERGROUND. 1926. 50 | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
21. 2011-11-11 | MONTAGUE BIRRELL BLACK \(1884\-?\). MARGATE. Circa 1925. 40x50 inches, 101x127 cm. McCorquodale, London. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,200
22. 2011-11-03 | Montague Birrell Black \(1884\-\) | Christie's | £875
23. 2011-09-13 | Montague Birrell Black \(British, born 1884\) The battle cruiser H.M.S. Indefatigable steaming at speed unframed | Bonhams | £1,375
24. 2011-05-25 | Montague Birrell Black \(British, born 1884\); White Star Line, Europe to America; | Bonhams | $976

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