1940s Posters

Original vintage Soviet World War Two propaganda poster featuring a dynamic design depicting a Soviet air force pilot with medals on his uniform below a thick coat, wearing flying go...

Original 1948 Argentine poster for the film Command Decision directed by Sam Wood with Clark Gable / Walter Pidgeon / Van Johnson / Brian Donlevy. Good-very good condition, folded. M...

Original photographic production photo from 1948 film Noir The Lady from Shanghai starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles and directed by Orson Welles. The photo was taken by Robert Coburn...

Original Belgian film poster for the Festival Mondial du Film Beau-Arts de Belgique (La Naissance du Cinema Lumiere Melies) Mondial du Film et Des Beaux-Artsheld in Brussels, Belgiu...

Original vintage illustrated map poster in Spanish by the notable graphic designer, cartographer and artist MacDonald Gill (Leslie MacDonald Gill aka Max Gill; 1884-1947) commissioned by the British Time & Tide magazine (1920-1986) following the World War Two Atlantic Charter agreement between the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill "for a better future for the world" 14 August 1941 - La Carta del Atlantico. Stunning design featuring detailed colorful pictorial depictions of agriculture and food production, Industrial raw materials and traditional life around the world including images of people, animals, trees, cattle, ships at sea, planes flying overhead and markers with a symbol box listing the locations of metals, wine, crops, petroleum, tobacco, sugar, rubber, silk, coffee, fruit, precious stones etc., surrounded by clouds on the sides and the sun shining down from The Atlantic Charter in the text box at the top with a black and white image below of an Industrial metal worker destroying tanks and machinery and a farming family ploughing a field with horses, the cities, countries, continents and quotes in banners with a seal and a compass point on both sides, all framed within a decorative border. Printed in Great Britain by Philip George & Son Ltd London and published in collaboration with the Time and Tide...

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Now! The British Must Have Ambulances - featuring a bold colourful design depicting an ambulance with a Red Cross on the side in fr...

Professionally Framed Wooden Gold frame, poster ,Prof. Dr. Paul Pfurtscheller,Sauria lacerta agilis, 1904. Hand drawn by Austrian zoologist, printed and used for Swedish school , ...

Original US Warner Brothers photographic production still used to promote the 1947 film Noir Dark Passage. This crime thriller was directed by Delmer Dave...

Original vintage World War Two travel advertising poster - In War and Peace We Serve - published by the Big Four railway companies of the time (1923-1947): Great Western Railway GWR,...

Original 1949 U.S. scene card for the film The Great Gatsby directed by Elliott Nugent with Alan Ladd / Betty Field / Macdonald Carey / Ruth Hussey. V...

Original vintage travel poster for Martha's Vineyard published by The New Haven Railroad featuring a bold illustration of a figurehead in front of a...

Original vintage Air France travel poster advertising its worldwide air network / Air France Reseau Aerien Mondial. Great artwork featuring two white planes flying along multiple whi...

Original British film poster for the 1947 film The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. This British drama was directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, and stars Derek Bond, Cedric Hard...

Original Belgian movie poster for David Lean's film adaptation of Charles Dickens famous novel. The artwork on this poster is unique to the film B...

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster, Back Them Up! A British tank attack in the Western Desert, featuring a dynamic illustration of a tank ...

Original 1943 U.S. one sheet poster for the film Murder in Times Square directed by Lew Landers with Edmund Lowe / Marguerite Chapman / John Litel / William Wright. Very good conditi...

Original French film poster from the 1942 Film Noir. These large French posters were designed to be pasted onto billboards throughout France, and...

Original Australian movie poster for the 1947 Drama starring Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Sabu. Directed by the great British duo Michael Powell...

Original British film poster for the 1947 Ealing Studios drama. This size poster is known as a door panel and is the rarest size poster on the title.

Original vintage World War Two poster published by the GPO General Post Office as part of a Campaign to encourage the public to telephone and telegraph less often in order to save man power during the war, telegraph less, featuring a great Modernist typographic design by the British artist and illustrator Barnett Freedman...

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster promoting the Chinese air force - outstanding youths, join the air force! Printed by the board of political training, military affairs commission. The design features a great illustration of a Chinese pilot in aviation goggles...

Original 1946 Swiss scene card for the film Shoeshine (Sciuscia) directed by Vittorio De Sica with Franco Interlenghi / Rinaldo Smordoni / Annielo Mel...

Original 1948 Finnish A2 poster for the documentary film “Song of My Heart” (Sydameni laulu) directed by Arvo Tamminen with Heikki Packalen / Kastehelmi Karjalainen / Kaarina Tammine...

Original 1946 Swiss scene card for the film Shoeshine (Sciuscia) directed by Vittorio De Sica with Franco Interlenghi / Rinaldo Smordoni / Annielo Mel...

Original British film poster for the 1950 Ealing Studios crime drama starring Jean Simmons, David Farrar and James Donald. The film was directed by Basil ...

Original Italian film poster for White Heat, 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney was synonymous with gangste...

Original 1946 Swiss scene card for the film “Shoeshine” (Sciuscia) directed by Vittorio De SICA with Franco Interlenghi / Rinaldo Smordoni / Annielo M...

Original Italian film poster designed for use in the cinemas lobby. This Classic 1946 film Noir starred Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and was ...

Original 1948 Italian fotobusta poster by M. Fuganti for the first Italian theatrical release of the 1940 film The Grapes of Wrath directed by John For...

Original 1943 U.S. scene card for the documentary film Prelude to War (Why We fight: Prelude to War) directed by Frank Capra / Anatole Litvak with Kai-Shek...

Original 1944 U.S. scene card by Albert Hirschfeld for the film Shuffle Rhythm directed by Reginald Le Borg with Henry Busse. Very good condition. Please note: the size is stated in ...

'Mt. Buffalo', Australia, 1939, original lithograph poster by Gert Sellheim "The 1930s have been dubbed the Golden Age of poster design in Australia. This was partly due to the efforts of the Victorian Railways and the Australian National Travel Association to promote tourism and outdoor recreation by commissioning posters from the best commercial artists of the day... Three of the most popular and influential artists, Gert Sellheim (1901-1970), James Northfield (1887-1973) and Percy Trompf (1902-1964) were colleagues at Melbourne’s Art Training Institute... It was always perfect weather to “Take a Kodak...

Original 1946 Swiss scene card for the film Shoeshine (Sciuscia) directed by Vittorio De SICA with Franco Interlenghi / Rinaldo Smordoni / Annielo Mel...

Original 1947 Danish A1 poster for the film Week-End at the Waldorf directed by Robert Z. Leonard with Ginger Rogers/Lana Turner/Walter Pidgeon/Van Johnson. Very good-fine condition,...

Fabulous pair of vintage movie posters - Joan Crawford in Queen Bee (1955) and Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard in Intermezzo (1939) but released in Belgium in 1946. Both of these ar...

Original 1946 U.S. scene card for the film Blue Skies directed by Stuart Heisler / Mark Sandrich with Bing Crosby / Fred Astaire / Joan Caulfield / Billy De Wolfe. Very good-fine con...

Original 1947 U.S. scene card for the film I Know Where I'm Going! directed by Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger with Wendy Hiller / Roger Livesey / Pamela Brown / Finlay Currie. F...

Original 1947 U.S. scene card for the film I Know Where I'm Going! directed by Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger with Wendy Hiller / Roger Livesey / Pamela Brown / Finlay Currie. F...

Original French poster for Festival du Film Maudit. In 1949 an avant-garde cine-club called Objectif 49 was formed in France. Its founder members i...

Original vintage sailing poster: Come to Britain for Yachting. Great scenic image of sailing boats on the water with hills in the background an...

Original vintage water sport poster for the Grand Meeting International Motonautique held on 12 and 13 June 1948 at the Bassin Du Trocadero featuring a dynamic illustration by Geo Ham (Georges Hamel; 1900-1972) of speed boats racing around a chequered buoy with a race flag blowing in the wind. Founded in 1922 in Belgium as the Union Internationale du Yachting Automobile, the Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM; since 1927) is the international governing body of power boating...

Original vintage London Transport poster for London: The Proud City - A new view of the Tower of London across Water Lane by the artist Walter E. Spradbery ...

1940s Kolynos toothpaste advertisement poster. Printed by Wassermann.

Original British film poster. This American film noir crime drama was directed by John Huston, and stars Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacal...

Original British trade advertisement for the 1949 adventure, fantasy science film Tarzan's Magic Fountain. The film was directed by Lee Sholem and starred Lex Barker, Brenda Joyce, ...

1948 Advertising poster for the Swiss philatelic store Marken Müller. Poster is under cellophane.

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster celebrating the 800th anniversary of Moscow 1147-1947: Long Live Our Moscow - Our Glory, Our Pride! Great design featuring colorful images o...

Original vintage travel poster for Arosa in the Swiss Alps featuring colorful artwork by Hans Aeschbach (1911-1999) depicting a hiker lying on the grass under a bright blue sky with ...

Original British trade advertisement for the 1948 Film Noir T-Men Directed by Anthony Mann and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford. This piece is paper backed and ...

Original British trade advertisement for the 1949 Comedy, Horror Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff. The film was directed by Char...

Original 1947 U.S. scene card for the film Odd Man Out directed by Carol Reed with James Mason / Robert Newton / Cyril Cusack / F.J. McCormick. Very Good c...

Original British trade advertisement for the 1949 Andventure, Fantasy film Mighty Joe Young. The film was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and stared Terry Moore...

Two atmospheric original production still for the 1949 Film Noir classic starring Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knoght, John Baragrey. The film was directed by Douglas Sirk.   

Original vintage World War II propaganda poster ‘This Man is your Friend-Englishman-He Fights for Freedom. Great black and white photograph of a smiling English soldier in uniform we...

Original vintage GWR Great Western Railway SR Southern Railway poster for the Thames Valley featuring a scenic illustration by Walter E Spradbery (1...

The Life of a Forgotten Magicians We are proud to offer a unique collection of one of London’s most unquestionably entertaining magicians known as Bernard and Ms Radar. A fascinating collection of 1940s-1960s items relating to the telepathic magic act 'Bernard and Miss Radar', a mind reading husband and wife duo, who extensively toured British theatres performing their telepathy based act and who were apparently the recipients of the 'World Convention of Magicians Award', which they received at the Magic Circle Convention in London in 1955. The collection comprises the basis for their act; 2 large handmade jigsaw puzzles, a “Radar” hat, top hat and other associated items with which they performed. There is also a large quantity (over 1000) of publicity photographs, theatre contracts, Magic Circle programmes, scrapbooks and other ephemera relating to their career, plus approximately fifteen original 1940s and 1950s theatre and other posters and several hand bills and flyers, all including Bernard and Miss Radar on the billing, along with other variety acts of the period. Some of the theatre posters included are; The Hippodrome, Eastbourne, Arcadia Theatre, Skegness, Commodore, Ryde, The Knightstone, Weston-Super-Mare and The Palace Theatre, Reading, which now all been framed to preserve them for display. Dimensions in inches: (Poster sizes) H 32” x W 22” x D 2” Origin: England Condition: Aged through wear and tear is present across all the item, some fading across the posters however they are not torn or damp. Some of the hand painted items also show aged wear and light discolouration. Please take note that these items are over 70 years old and would have been used as part of this magician’s act, therefore its safe to say these items all show age, however, are very well preserved. Please review all the photos and propose questions were unsure of the condition to avoid any disappointment. Over 1000 artifacts - most not pictured due to volume of items. Postage cost is high due to the weight (30kg) and volume of items in this lot, 10 posts mounted, 1 full box of archived material, top hat box...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Summer in Davos, Europe's Sun Terrace, Switzerland or Sommer in Davos Europas Sonnenterrasse Schweiz. Bright and colourful image of a t...

Original black and white studio photographic still used to advertise Warner Brother's leading lady, Barbara Stanwyck in the 1940s.