Brownie Advertising Poster

1890s-early 1900s by the Donaldson Litho Co. of Newport, KY. "Al G. Field Big Minstrels - Dan Quinlan Poster has inset image of Field in upper left-hand corner. Main image of poster ...

This is a rare and early French poster for a Concert Cabaret. The image has a full length female harlequin with doll and a second clown lurking behind. Art is by H. Gray and poster r...

This was an estate find and part of a beautiful collection of rare excellent turn of the century posters. They were hidden away for over 100 years. This is a rare and impressive 3 sheet poster that is 7 foot tall. It make quite a statement. About the poster: You'd think that a play called "The New Baby" might feature said child in its promotional material. But here's the thing - there really isn't a baby at the centre of the comedy, and that's the crux of this entertainment. The plot concerns a husband who is so bored with country life that he dreams up the idea of having an illegitimate son in London as a way to get into town for an occasional 'night off'. When his wife decides that the child should be adopted, the expected comic tissue of falsehoods and misunderstandings frays and hilarity ensues. Adapted from German by A. Bourchier, the farce opened in London in 1896 to what a local critic termed 'much mirth'. Several years later, when the play had crossed the Atlantic and entered the repertory of David de Wolf cleverly called the Baby's chaperone on the poster and his troupe of traveling players, that understated review was translated into the more American howling success. The cast and director would've been totally unfamiliar with the British hinterlands, so this splendid design concentrates on the hi-jinks of the characters and their situation. At the start of the 20th century, America was in the full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy and optimism. In 1900 in New York there were 33 legitimate Broadway theaters...

This is one of the best posters from the 1930s Winslow classroom series. The graphics are Silhouette against a dramatic black background... unique to these posters. Black was used so...

An original nicely framed Charlie Chaplin "Charlot" movie poster, designed by Auguste Louis Leymarie, color lithograph on paper. At over 5 foot tall French poster is an impressive si...

This is an early lithographed anatomical chart by Amer-Frohse. Fritz Frohse (1871-1916) was the original artist, a German anatomist and doctor, publis...

Ducretet Thomson advertising poster 1960 France poster designed by Jc. Rousseau dimensions : H 158 cm x W 118 cm price: 790 € (€).

Oversized chocolate advertising poster, Belgium, 1999. One of three very rare large advertising posters from the brand ‘Jacques Chocolate’ ...

- Original poster (no replica), framed, - 1930s - Marked by author.

The poster features a well dressed, elegant woman in a long dress and large hat. She is holding a glass of Martini toasting her companion who is not part of the poster. The Martini b...

This outstanding Martini poster was designed in the 1930’s and such was its popularity that it was still being used in the 1950’s. It was produced for t...

Beginning in the mid-19th Century in Italy, Martini has become a multi-national beverage brand. This beautiful poster was originally created in the 1930’s, and was so successful that...