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Posters For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1890s
Original Vintage Seefahrt Ist Not Poster Sea Quote Navy Shipping Is A Necessity
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda poster - Seefahrt ist Not / Seafaring is Necessary (or Shipping is a Necessity) - featuring a dynamic design of a German navy ship on a rough sea with the waves splashing up from the green shaded water in front of a tall building in the background, a white seagull flying in front of the blue sky with the bold title text below. Used in a popular 1913 book about the life of fishermen by Johann Wilhelm Kinau (Gorch Fock; 1880-1916), the phrase Seefahrt ist Not was used as a Nazi...
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1920s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Soviet Propaganda Poster Give Bread To The Revolution USSR
Located in London, GB
Original antique Soviet propaganda poster - Give bread to the revolution! Peasant! Your harvest has been harvested for a long time, have you calculated the surplus? How do you plan to dispose of it? Think about it comrade: before you are two states: the Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Republic and Denikin's Landlord-General Kingdom. Think about who you should go with? Who is your friend and who is your enemy? Colourful design featuring a countryside view with windmills, trees and farms...
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1920s Russian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Movie Poster The Greatest Thing In Life Lillian Gish WWI Drama
Located in London, GB
Original antique movie poster for the Swedish release of a now lost romantic drama, the 1918 American silent film about World War One - The Greatest Thing in Life / Det Storsta I Liv...
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1910s Swedish Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique War Poster SMS Goeben Gallipoli Dardanelles WWI Seaplane Greece
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One poster - Chambas bombing the Goeben / Ο ΧΑΜΠΑΣ ΒΟΜΒΑΡΔΙΖΩΝ ΤΟ ΓΚΑΙΜΠΕΝ - featuring an aerial view of a Hellenic Naval Air Service / Ναυτική Αεροπορική ...
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1910s Greek Vintage Posters
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Paper
Movie Poster "The Cattle Baron's Daughter" Ca 1910; (1st Edition Book included)
Located in Incline Village, NV
This movie poster is from one of the earliest movies produced; having been based on a novel written by Harold Edward Bindloss (bearing the same name "The Cattle Baron's Daughter") in...
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1910s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Ireland Great Southern Railway Rys Fisherman
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster issued by Great Southern Railways - Ireland The Fisherman's Paradise - featuring artwork by Walter Till (1880-1930) depicting a scenic view of two men ...
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1920s Irish Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Ireland Great Southern Rys Glengarriff Killarney
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by Great Southern Railways - Ireland For Bracing Air & Glorious Sunshine - featuring artwork by Walter Till (1880-1930) depicting a serene lands...
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1920s Irish Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Western And Brighton Railways Paris To London
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster for the Western and Brighton Railway Paris to London via Rouen Dieppe and Newhaven daily departures from Gare St Lazare / Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest et ...
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Early 1900s French Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Political Propaganda Poster Baldwin Bovril British Elections
By John Gilroy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage political propaganda poster - I hear they want more - Baldwin (With Apologies to Bovril Ltd.). Design by the notable artist John Gilroy (John Thomas Young Gilroy; 1898-1985) in the style of the Bovril posters...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Educational Poster Cultivated Plant Friends And Enemies Birds
Located in London, GB
Original antique educational poster - Our cultivated plants, their friends and enemies - featuring numbered illustrations of an apple tree ...
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Early 1900s Russian Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage 1928 Avant Garde Art Exhibition Poster Kandinsky Picasso Klee
By Heinrich Campendonk
Located in London, GB
Original vintage art exhibition poster: Colour / Farbe Ausstellung im Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum held at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld Germany from 1-31 May 1928 presenting work by...
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1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Sport Poster 1926 Winter Games Schwarzwald Black Forest Germany
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster for the 1926 Black Forest Winter Fighting Games organised by the German Reich Committee for Physical Education - Deutsche Re...
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1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Southern Pacific Steamship Ocean Liner Cruise Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel advertising poster issued by Southern Pacific featuring an ocean liner sailing at sea with the steam rising into a ligh...
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1920s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique World War One Poster Our Army Needs Metals WWI Recycling Design
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One poster featuring a dynamic design depicting soldiers manning military weapons in front of an explosive yellow, ora...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster IV Concours International De Ski Jump Alpine Club France
Located in London, GB
Original antique winter sport poster for the 4th International Ski Competition organised by the French Alpine Club Alpin Francais (CAF; founded 1874) an...
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1910s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Hastings St Leonards EA Cox Sussex Soldier Battle
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the historical South Coast towns of Hastings & St Leonards in Sussex featuring stunning artwork by the British painter Elijah Albert Cox (1876-1955) depicting arrows shooting at an English soldier in full armour drawing a sword and holding a shield with a red lion on it, a blooming flower tree in the foreground and flag behind him with a view of the city by the sea and castle on top of the hill in the background, all set against a bright background with the title text on the black border below. Part of the 11th century Norman Conquest of England, the Battle of Hastings in October 1066 between the Norman French army led by William the...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Large Original Vintage Movie Poster For The Film Luxury Starring Rubye De Remer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage three sheet movie poster for the UK release of the 1921 American film Luxury directed by Marcel Perez and starring Rubye De R...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Berlingske Tidende Newspaper Parrot Dog Fish
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for advertisements in the Berlingske Tidende / Berling Newspaper (founded 1749) featuring great artwork of a parrot on a bird perch above a dog with fish in a bowl in the foreground, the text in Danish in red and black stylised lettering above and below - Advertisements in Berling Newspaper Most read Cost the least For sale Parrot All ads for buying and selling...
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1910s Danish Vintage Posters
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Paper
Lithograpic Poster by Jean Dupas for the Arnold Constable Store
By Jean Dupas
Located in Montreal, QC
Made in France Tolmer Paris
Arnold Constable & Company was America’s oldest department store, technically founded in 1825. The store itself used 1827 as its founding date, no doubt...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Rail Travel Poster Jaarbeurs Utrecht Fair De Inktpot Inkwell
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster advertising reduced fares from 1 to 15 September 1927 for visitors to the Jaarbeurs fair - Jaarbeurs Utrecht verlaagd reizigerstarief voor Jaarbeursbezoekers - featuring a great Art Deco design by Henri Christiaan Pieck (1895-1972) in black and white with a dramatic red shaded border depicting the brick and stained glass building designed by the architect George Willem van Heukelom (1870-1952), De Inktpot / The Inkwell building...
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1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster King Bath Soap Bar Bade Seife Hygiene Health
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Bade Seife King bath soap featuring a colourful illustration of a pink round bar of soap bar marked with a crown and the brand name King in fr...
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1920s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Teamwork Wins US Shipping Board Emergency Fleet WWI Flag
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One propaganda poster, “Teamwork Wins United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation”, featuring a dynamic illustration by Hibberd Van Buren Kline...
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1910s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Ferry Boats Zeebrugge Harwich Railway Travel Transport
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster - Ferry Boats Zeebrugge Harwich Transports en wagons directs Vervoer met directe wagons. Dynamic design featuring an anc...
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1910s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique 1913 Railway Poster Castello Di Paraggi Italian Riviera Ligure
Located in London, GB
Large original antique travel advertising poster for the Italian Riviera Italy / Riviera Ligure Italia by train / Chemins de Fer Italiens de l'Etat (Italian State Railways) featuring...
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1910s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Big Old Thonet Furniture Poster, 1920s
By Thonet
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1926
- Original poster
- Beautiful decoration
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Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Glass, Paper
Original Vintage Poster Son Of The Streets Uzbek Soviet Film Avant Garde Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage film poster for ??? ????? / Son of the Streets produced by the Uzbekistan Soviet film department Uzbekgoskino featuring a constructivist design of a lady with short ...
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1920s Uzbek Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique WWI War Loan Poster Pour La Patrie Emprunt Algeria Tunisia
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war loan poster - Pour la Patrie Souscivez a l'Emprunt Credit Foncier d'Algerie et de Tunisie / For the homeland Subscribe to the Credit Loan of Algeri...
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1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Anti Bolshevik Workers Starvation Death Skeleton Design
Located in London, GB
Original antique anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster featuring artwork by the German designer Heinz Fuchs (1886-1961) depicting a skeleton figure in green stepping over people and house...
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1910s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1925 Cycles France Sport Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Gorgeous poster from 1925 advertising "France Sport Cycles". Depicting 3 cyclists on their various bicycle frame models in a countryside scene, the poste...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage French Lithograph Poster, 'Au Bon Marche' by Rene Vincent, 1920
By Rene Vincent
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage French lithograph poster, 'Au Bon Marche' by Rene Vincent, 1920
René Vincent was a French illustrator who was active in the 1920s-193...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Berlowitz Munzstrasse 24 Berlin Germany Shoemaker Snake
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the Berlowitz shoemaker at 24 Munzstrasse Berlin featuring a great design depicting a cartoon style image of a red snake like creature with bi...
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1910s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Lithographic French Poster 'Hutchinson Tire' by Mich, Circa 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original Lithographic French Poster 'Hutchinson Tire' by Mich, Circa 1910
This is an original vintage poster which is linen backed for preservation. There is some wear consistent w...
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Antique Poster Flugtag Bavaria Pilots Flight Day Plane Parachute Design
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster for the Flugtag Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bayerischer Piloten / Flight Day Working Group of Bavarian Pilots featuring a great design depicting a smiling pilot in parachute uniform with propeller planes in the background flying by and looping in the sky above a parachutist with the bold stylised lettering at the top and on the dark blue border in yellow with the Bavaria State lesser coat of arms shield...
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1920s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Castrol Motor Oil 1928 T.T. Races Isle of Man Motorcycle
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport advertising poster for Castrol Motor Oil - 1928 T.T. Races again won on Castrol - featuring the title in bold stylised lettering above, the swoop of the letter L running behind photograph images and description of the wins all using Wakefield Castrol - Charlie Dodson on a Sunbeam motorcycle in the Senior TT with George Rowley in 2nd place and Tommy L Hatch in 3rd place, Alec Bennett riding a Velocette motorbike in the Junior TT with Harold J Willis in 2nd place and Kenneth Twemlow in 3rd place, and Frank Longman on an OK-Supreme in the Lightweight TT with C S Barrow in 2nd place and Edwin Twemlow in 3rd place - a royal crest Dieu et Mon Droit by appointment to His Majesty the King above and the RAC Royal Automobile Club...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Le Phare Ducellier Car Headlights "Sees All"
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Ducellier lights - Le Phare Ducellier "Voit Tout" Acetylene Non Comprime / "Sees All" Uncompressed Acetylene -...
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Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Buy Here Produce Of Empire Marketing Board
By Eric Fraser
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board to encourage British citizens to help their own economy following the Great Depression in America by buying British...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Everything For Victory Military Loan WWI No Spare Shells
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war loan poster - Everything for Victory Buy Military Loan 5½% / ??? ??? ??????! ????????????? ?? ??????? ???? 5½% - featuring a convoy of military tru...
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1910s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Modern Northern European woodcut print Seven Sacraments '1935' by Edgard Tytgat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tytgat's style can be described as a simplification of reality with an intended naivety. He derived his inspiration mainly from daily life and incorporated these experiences in his own dream world. For the present lot Tytgat was inspired by the traditional seven sacraments in the Church: Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. Tytgat also references the Flemish tradition of visual representation of these sacraments that dates back all the way to age of Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden...
Category
Early 20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Political Election Poster Vote Unionist Socialism Conservative
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election poster - Free Industry from the Red Bar of Socialism! Vote Unionist! - featuring a dynamic design depicting a red bar wedged into an industrial me...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Cruise Travel Poster North Via Szczecin Stettin Scandinavia Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique cruise travel poster - North Via Szczecin Travel to Scandinavia on modern passenger liners / Nach Dem Norden Uber Stettin Reisen Sie nach Skandinavien mit den modern...
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1920s Danish Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster Stansstad Engelberg Railway Switzerland Swiss Alps View
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster promoting the Stansstad Engelberg Bahn railway in Switzerland featuring a scenic painting by the Austrian artist and cartographer Anton Reckziegel (186...
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1890s Swiss Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster KaceBek Cigarettes Tobacco Imperial Russia
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster issued in Belgium to promote a Russian brand of cigarettes KaceBek / ??????? ????-??? manufactured in Imperial Russia before the 1917 October Revolution by Nakhimoff & Co. Great design featuring a hand tipping open a pack of cigarettes...
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Early 1900s Belgian Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Sunshine Cruises Atlantis Royal Mail Steam Ship
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - Royal Mail Atlantis Sunshine Cruises Royal Mail Lines Ltd America House, Cockspur Street, London SW1 Royal Mail...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Cleanliness In Your Hand Hygiene Bauhaus Graphic Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage hygiene and health propaganda poster - Cologne's Cleanliness In Your Hands / In Deiner Hand Kolns Sauberkeit - featuring a great Bauhaus style graphic design of a hand dropping a tissue in a rubbish bin...
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1920s German Bauhaus Vintage Posters
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Paper
Large Original Vintage Advertising Poster: Motos Cycles Terrot Dijon Motorcycles
Located in London, GB
Large original vintage advertising poster for the French manufacturer of motorcycles and bicycles Terrot based in Dijon in eastern France (founded 1887). Dynamic design featuring the...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Taormina Sicily ENIT Italy Borgoni Mount Etna Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster Taormina Italia featuring stunning artwork of the hilltop town in Sicily with a view over the ancient ruins and sailing boats on the calm blue sea leading around the coast to a snow topped Mount Etna in the distance, the title text in bold yellow lettering below with the logos. Artwork by Mario Borgoni...
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1920s Italian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Ashtabula Harbor Lake Erie New York Central Lines Rail
Located in London, GB
Original vintage rail transport advertising poster - Ashtabula Harbor Lake Erie where trainloads of Appalachian coal are exchanged for cargoes of Northern iron ore New York Central Lines...
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1920s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster Liberals Tariff Reform Pension Free Trade Quack Doctors
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election propaganda poster issued by the Liberal Party - Bad For The Quack Doctors - featuring an illustration of the statesman and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) handing out Old Age Pension papers and Cheap Sugar packages to an elderly couple and a young girl with the Conservative Party politician Henry Chaplin (1840-1923) and statesman Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937) as doctors holding a medical bag...
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1910s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Car Advertising Poster Chevrolet Automobile General Motors USA
Located in London, GB
Original antique car advertising poster for Chevrolet value automobiles featuring a driver and lady inside a Chevrolet classic car with another lady and dog...
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1920s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster Pneu Beeston Tyres King Of The Road Tire Advertising Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Beeston tyres The King of the Road / Pneu Beeston le Roi de la Route featuring artwork by Alfred Choubrac (1853-1902) showing a lady in fashio...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Newspaper Advertising Poster The Weekly Telegraph Insurance
By John Hassall
Located in London, GB
Original antique newspaper advertising poster - The Weekly Telegraph - featuring a fun and colourful illustration by the notable artist John Hass...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Drink Poster For Journu Freres Kappelhoff Bordeaux Wine France
Located in London, GB
Original antique drink advertising poster for Journu Freres, Kappelhoff & Cie. Bordeaux wine featuring a colourful image of a smiling grape picker holdin...
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Early 1900s French Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster Royal Northern Hospital Holloway Road London Lambert
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster for the Royal Northern Hospital N7 featuring the smart new hospital with a person on the main staircase entrance, peopl...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Drink Poster Liqueur Kazanove Bordeaux France Liquor Cazanove
Located in London, GB
Original antique drink advertising poster for Liqueur Kazanove ?????? ???????? Bordeaux France Trade Mark featuring the title text in bold lettering in the ...
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Early 1900s French Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Italy Travel Poster Trento Alps Monument To Dante ENIT Railways
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting the alpine city in Northern Italy Trento published by ENIT the Italian Tourism Board and the Italian State Railways featuring stunning artwork of the historic 1896 Monument to Dante statue...
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1920s Italian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Early 20th Century Human Anatomy Educational Poster
Located in Hook, Hampshire
Early 20th Century Human Anatomy Educational Poster
Early 20th Century Human Anatomy Educational Poster. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall...
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Early 20th Century Czech Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Never Again Vote Labour And No More War UK Elections
Located in London, GB
Original vintage political election poster - Never Again! Vote Labour And No More War - featuring a hand drawing back a red curtain with a view to rows...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Motivation Poster Hoflichkeit Courtesy Breaks Resistance Quote
Located in London, GB
Original vintage German motivational workplace poster issued by the Parker-Holladay company in Berlin featuring an illustration of a an icebreaker ship named the Hoflichkeit sailing ...
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1920s German Vintage Posters
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Paper
Antique and Vintage Posters
Add a welcome personal touch to your space and tie your distinctive interior scheme together by introducing antique and vintage posters to any and every room of your home.
In the late 19th century, following the advent of text-heavy posters printed from woodblocks for use in taverns and shop windows, hand-drawn poster art had become commonplace in regions such as France, England and the United States. Well-known illustrators were commissioned to produce decorative posters to advertise political campaigns, theatrical events, books, household goods and other items. Early poster artists used a printmaking technique called lithography, which sees drawings or paintings created on a stone (or metal) surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The image is eventually affixed to the surface by means of a chemical reaction, and ink adheres to certain sections of the surface while non–image areas are made to repel the ink.
If you wanted a color lithograph in the early days, the number of stones prepared had to match the number of colors you commissioned for the poster. French painter Jules Chéret, widely known as the father of the modern poster, designed some of history's most popular lithographic posters that featured color. Today, Chéret’s art is highly collectible, along with original works by Czech painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha, whose posters advertising theatrical productions helped define Art Nouveau.
Over time, poster artists transitioned to more advanced techniques. Using silkscreens, woodblocks and photolithography, painters and illustrators printed larger quantities at a faster rate.
If you’ve finally tracked down that vintage movie poster, mid-century modern promotional travel poster or other work and you’re looking to find out if it is valuable, distinguishing between an original poster and a reproduction can be complicated. A professional appraiser can work with you on factors such as rarity, assessing the physical condition of your poster and authenticating your piece. For now, take care of your new acquisition because conserving posters is essential in helping them retain their value. A practical conservation method is to have the work mounted on archival, acid-free paper and thin artist’s canvas, then enclosing it in a sturdy frame. (And here is a primer on how to hang wall art, be it arranged gallery-style or otherwise.)
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