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Original vintage poster for Cycles Clément Pneumatique Dunlop

Circa 1900

A superb poster, very old, realized around the years 1900 for the brand Automoto. Automoto is a brand of motorcycles and bicycles 🚲 originating in Saint-Etienne. It was launched in 1899 by developing a copy of the De Dion...

Beautiful art deco poster by Felix Fournery ( 1865 - 1938 ) featuring an elegant woman with her De Dion-Bouton bicycle. Felix Fournery, fashion illustrator, pa...

The 1911 original poster for La Bicyclette - Le Globe is a remarkable testament to the early 20th-century cycling culture and the rise of competitive sports marketing. Created to promote the Le Globe bicycle brand, this poster emphasizes its association with significant cycling achievements, including victories in prestigious races like the Tour de France 1910 and 1911 and the grueling Paris-Brest-Paris 1911. Cycling was rapidly gaining popularity in Europe during this era, not only as a mode of transportation but as a competitive sport that captured the imagination of the public. The poster highlights Le Globe bicycles’ durability and superior design, attributing their performance to technological advancements such as the Eadie freewheel, Hans Renold chain, and Bowden brakes. These innovations are prominently mentioned as key factors behind the brand's success in overcoming the rigors of demanding races. Victories by riders using Le Globe bicycles are proudly celebrated in the poster, with detailed references to stage wins in the Tour de France and the extraordinary records set during the Paris-Brest-Paris race. The detailed text serves as both a chronicle of accomplishments and an endorsement of the brand’s reliability and superiority. The typographic design, typical of early 20th-century posters, conveys authority and credibility while catering to an audience eager for both sporting news and technical innovation. This promotional piece stands as an enduring relic of an era when cycling was not just a sport but a symbol of progress and industrial ingenuity. Today, the La Bicyclette - Le Globe poster...

Beautiful poster after Louis Mangin for the Alcyon cycles. Alcyon is a French company of construction of bicycles, motorcycles and cars created in 1903, boulevard Bourdon in Neuilly-...

Original antique advertising poster for the French bicycle manufacturer Rochet usines & bureaux a Amiens Somme / factories and offices in Amiens. Great artwork showing a lion hol...

Original antique bicycle advertising poster for Peugeot Cycles featuring a great illustration of a smiling elegant lady in a fashionable dress, flo...

Original French poster: Cycles Clement Motocycles, La Plus Vaste Usine de Monde; artist: PAL, (Jean de Paléologue) 1860-1942, c. 1895 original stone lithograph; archival linen backe...

Decorate a game room or exercise room with this large and colorful antique Belle Epoque poster! Created by artist Dourzinelle circa 1890 for Andru Cycles, the wonderfully made stone lithograph features an elegantly dressed woman in the center foreground of the image. A winding road extends out behind her, with fields and the outline of a town in the background, creating a picturesque country scene. The use of both realistic details and fluid curving lines coupled with bold block typography creates a classically Belle Epoque period advertising poster. This poster has been professionally linen backed. Virtually all original vintage posters of this era were viewed as temporary advertising and were printed on fragile, thin paper. While expensive, linen backing is a conservation method used to mount, stabilize, preserve, and protect vintage posters so they can be displayed or framed without compromising value...