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Posters For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1880s
Vintage Enameled Advertising Sign VW Volkswagen
Located in Vienna, AT
Original vintage "VW Hauptwerkstadt" advertising enamel sign, made in Germany in the early 1950s.
Dimension: 60 x 39 cm.
Category
1950s German Industrial Vintage Posters
Materials
Steel
Vintage Framed Poster Loterie Nationale France Fifties Advertisement M. Pineau
Located in Poperinge, BE
Vintage framed poster from the 1950s for the 'Loterie Nationale', design by M. Pineau, published by Le Belier, dated 1954, Paris, France.
In reasonable vintage condition, this poste...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Paper
Original canvas poster Vermuth Carpano "Caval ad bruns" Armando Testa 1953
Located in None, IT
Original canvas affix, Vermut Carpano "Caval ad bruns," Armando Testa, anno1953.
Lithograph imprinted by Arti Grafiche Pirovano, Milan.
Dimensions: 139x100 cm.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Canvas, Paper
Original Vintage Poster Chexbres Le Balcon Du Leman Suisse Lake Geneva Vineyard
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Swiss travel poster for Chexbres Le Balcon Du Leman Suisse featuring a scenic view over Lake Geneva / Lac Leman depicting a vineyard in the foreground with a path le...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1959 Michelin Pneumatici Velo Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
A wonderful poster printed by Verga Printers Milano, this advertisement poster for Michelin tyres was created in 1959 and depicts Michelin mascot Bibendum aka the Michelin Man pushin...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Canada Sabena Belgian Airlines Dutch
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - naar Kanada per Sabena / to Canada with Sabena (the national airline of Belgium from 1923-2001) - featuring a colourful mid-century desig...
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Towards The Great Goal China USSR
By M. Solovyov
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - К Великой Цели! / Towards the Great Goal! - featuring two smiling young men representing China and the USSR wearing blue overalls and wavi...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Dam Busters
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for The Dam Busters 1955. This British epic war film was directed by Michael Anderson, and stars Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. It was based on two b...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'20000 Leagues Under The Sea' Original Vintage British Quad Movie Poster, 1955
Located in Devon, GB
A rare British quad poster for the first UK release of Walt Disney's 1954 live-action sci-fi adventure '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea', based on the 1870 novel by Jules Verne. From th...
Category
1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Framed Vintage Life-Size Marilyn Monroe Pin-Up Poster
Located in Chicago, IL
A super fun vintage framed life-size pin-up poster of a young Marilyn Monroe in a red and white striped bikini and showing her Classic shining smile.
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Attack of the 50ft. Woman' Original Vintage US One Sheet Movie Poster, 1958
Located in Devon, GB
Starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson, and Yvette Vickers, the film tells the story of Nancy Archer, a wealthy but troubled woman who encounters an alien and subsequently grows to a...
Category
1950s American Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
High Society
Located in London, GB
Original colour photographic production still for the 1956 classic comedy, musical starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. The film was remake of the 19...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Framed Poster Loterie Nationale France Fifties Advertisement M. Pineau
Located in Poperinge, BE
Vintage framed poster from the 1950s for the 'Loterie Nationale', design by M. Pineau, published by Le Belier, dated March 1954, Paris, France.
In reasonable vintage condition, this...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Paper
Problem Girls (1953)
Located in London, GB
Problem Girls (1953)
Original One Sheet (27 X 41 Inches)
Love the tagline on this 1953 Exploitation classic - “Why do so many rich girls go so wrong?” Sex, drugs, delinquency, alter...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Origi1nal Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Guatemala Clark Tours Midcentury Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Guatemala Clark Tours - featuring a colourful illustration of a lady carrying a basket of fruit on her hat surrounded by smaller images depicting people playing music and rowing a boat with a fish jumping up, a couple dancing and a lady water skiing against the black background, two traditional masks below the title text in stylised lettering above and the rest of the text below - Guatemala CA Consult Your Travel Agent...
Category
1950s Guatemalan Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Cinderella
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card for Walt Disney's 1950 animation.
Walt Disney's fairy tale Cinderella was based on the 17th century story by the French author Charles Perrault. It is the twel...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Air France Baleres Lucien Boucher
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Air France Baleares - featuring floral artwork by Lucien Boucher (1889-1971) depicting one of the islands with buildings and a cathedral ...
Category
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Dubrovnik Yugoslavia Croatia Midcentury Modern
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Dubrovnik Jugoslavija / Yugoslavia featuring a colourful design of the historical buildings and old town fortress walls with trees on a sea blue ba...
Category
1950s Croatian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Lady and the Tramp / La Belle et le Clochard
Located in London, GB
Exceptionally rare original French film poster for Walt Disney's, 1955 animation film. This poster was designed to be pasted on billboards for the films rerelease in France. The art ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Science Fiction Film Poster Earth vs. the Flying Saucers Sci-Fi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage science fiction movie poster for Earth vs. The Flying Saucers / Les Soucoupes Volantes Attaquent directed by Fred F. Sear...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The African Queen
Located in London, GB
Original American oversized double weight studio photograph for the 1951 film The African Queen.Lobby card. This is one of the best images showing Humphre...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Car Advertising Poster Volkswagen Limousine VW Automobile Retro
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Volkswagen car advertising poster - VW Limousine - featuring images of the car in different colours including black, pale blue, ruby red and pearl white with a note ...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Olivetti Lettera 22 Typewriter Alphabet Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting colourful c...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
James Dean 'Rebel Without A Cause' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1956
Located in Devon, GB
A full-length James Dean smoulders on this exceedingly rare two-panel poster for the first Japanese release of the classic 1955 teenage drama 'Rebel Without A Cause' in April 1956. S...
Category
1950s Japanese Post-Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
North by Northwest
Located in London, GB
Original double weight candid photographic production still for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 ThrillerNorth by Northwest.
This film starred Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. Thi...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Located in London, GB
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Original US 1 Sheet (27 X 41 Inches)
Hitchcock directs Grace Kelly in one of his best films ever, and this poster has one of the most memorable images in ci...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Gigi (1958)
Located in London, GB
Gigi (1958)
Original US Insert (14 X 36 Inches)
Superb art of winking Leslie Caron, Best Director & Best Picture winner!
Year: 1958
Nationality: United States
Condition: Folded-As-...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Gigi (1958)
Located in London, GB
Gigi (1958)
Original US One Sheet (27 X 41 Inches)
Vincente Minnelli 1-sheet poster for Gigi. (MGM, 1958) Vintage original 27 x 41 in. 1-sheet poster for Minnelli's second Best Pict...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Roman Holiday (1953)
Located in London, GB
Roman Holiday (1953)
Original US One Sheet (27 X 41 Inches)
Graceful Audrey Hepburn is perfectly cast as Princess Anne, a young woman who longs to escape her royal duties and have s...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Mexico Sabena Belgian Airlines
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Mexico by Sabena Belgian World Airlines featuring a man with a moustache wearing a wide brimmed hat in front of a colourful background ...
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Turkey Sabena Belgian Airlines Eynde
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Turkey by Sabena Belgian World Airlines - featuring a colourful stylised image of a lady dancing in a traditional dress and man playing m...
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for Vittorio De Sica's 1951 Drama, Fantasy starring Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa.
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
Walt Disney 'Bambi' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1957
Located in Devon, GB
An incredibly rare and charming B2 poster for a 1957 Japanese re-release of the beloved Walt Disney classic 'Bambi.' The touching tale of a young fawn destined to be Prince of the Forest was the fifth feature-length animated picture to be released by Disney and was critically acclaimed for its graceful animation and lush hand painted forest scenes. Generations of viewers might cite the shocking death of Bambi’s mother at the hands of an anonymous hunter, symbolizing Man's cruel destruction of nature, as their lasting association with the film, yet the story endures as a celebration of life and the cycle of nature. In 2008, the American film Institute named Bambi the third best film in the animation genre.
Featuring a lush full-bleed forest scene from the animation, this delightful poster was issued for a dubbed 1957 re-release, following the first Japanese release of the film in 1951, when Hollywood films were screened widely throughout the country during the US occupation. Along with 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' the feature length Disney animation had a marked influence on a generation of Japanese animators, most notably the "Father of Manga" Osamu Tezuka...
Category
1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Original Vintage Soviet Travel Poster USSR In Winter Intourist Snowman URSS
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet Intourist travel poster - Visit the USSR in Winter / Visitez l'URSS en Hiver - featuring a fun illustration of people in colourful clothing building a snowman...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Anatomical Human Front Muscular Structure Chart, 1950s, Germany
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Vintage pull-down anatomical human chart, print of a painting for Tanck & Wegelin, Germany. The chart is part of the series: Naturalien und Lehrmittel Anatomie und Biologie, Hamburg....
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
The Tales of Hoffmann
Located in London, GB
Original British photographic production still used to promote the 1951 drama The Tales of Hoffmann. This film was directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and starred Moira...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
James Dean Story, The (1957)
Located in London, GB
James Dean Story, The (1957)
Original One Sheet (27 X 41 Inches)
This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean's death, looks at Dean's life through the use of still ...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster General Dynamics Astrodynamics UN Atomic Energy Plane
By Erik Nitsche
Located in London, GB
Original vintage General Dynamics poster by the illustrator, typographer and graphic designer Erik Nitsche (1908-1998) promoting Astrodynamics....
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Panama Braniff International Airways Fishing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Latin America travel poster for Panama issued by Braniff International Airways featuring a fun image of a smiling man in a red and white top standing with a swordfis...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Umberto D
Located in London, GB
Original German film poster from the former East Germany.
The atmospheric poster was designed by Werner Klemke (1917-1994) for the films first East German release in 1955 the artwork...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Visit London See Britain By Rail British Railways
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways travel poster - Visit London See Britain by Rail - featuring colourful artwork by Gordon Nicoll (1888-1959) depicting a procession of Horse Guards r...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster American Airlines To New England McKnight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - American Airlines to New England - designed by one of the most renowned poster artists of the 20th century Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Funny Face
Located in London, GB
Original US colour production still for Stanley Donen's 1957 comedy, musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.
The piece is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in a Tulip ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Deadly is the Female / Gun Crazy
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1950 film Deadly is the Female.
This American film noir was directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stars Peggy Cummins and John Dall. It tells the story of a...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Problem Girls
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1953 Exploitation film Problem Girls.
This film starred Helen Walker and Ross Elliot and was directed by Ewald Andre Dupont.
This poster is conserva...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster American Airlines Lockheed L188 Electra II Bomar
Located in London, GB
Original vintage airline travel advertising poster - American Airlines Electra II - promoting the addition of the new aircraft to their fleet featuring a colourful and bold midcentur...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Ship Poster Australia P&O Travel In Comfort Kangaroo
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise ship travel poster - Australia travel in comfort P&O - featuring a great illustration of a smiling kangaroo with a joey in its pouch jumping over tufts of gra...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soft Drink Advertising Poster Dr Pepper Frosty Man Soda Pop
Located in London, GB
Original vintage soft drink advertising poster for Dr Pepper - frosty, man - frosty! The friendly "Pepper-Upper" - featuring a fun image of a smilin...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster San Fermin Running Of The Bulls Pamplona Spain Encierro
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the 1954 San Fermin festival in Pamplona Spain on 6-20 July / San Fermin de 1954 Ferias y Fiestas del 6 al 20...
Category
1950s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Brigitte Bardot
Located in London, GB
Original French photograph by Angelo Frontoni 1929 - 2002 taken on the beach during the 1955 Cannes film festival.
There is a perspex window on the bac...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Prince and the Showgirl
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Laurence Olivier’s 1957 romantic comedy starring
himself and Marilyn Monroe.
This poster is conservation linen backed.
This piece is in excellent conditio...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
High Society
Located in London, GB
Original candid photographic production still for the 1956 classic comedy, musical starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong The film was remake of the 1940 T...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Varna Bulgaria Black Sea Coast Summer Travel Beach Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Varna Bulgaria issued by Balkantourist (the oldest Bulgarian tourism company founded in 1948) featuring people swimming in the sea and sunbathing with children playing on a sandy beach curving around the coast past a wooden boat with buildings, trees and hills in the distance, a deck chair under a red and white striped sun umbrella with sandals, a sombrero hat and shells on the sand in the foreground. The ancient city of Varna is a popular seaside resort located on the Black Sea Coast...
Category
1950s Bulgarian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
From Here to Eternity
Located in London, GB
Original American candid photographic production still from the film From Here to Eternity 1953.
The image is of Frank Sinatra relaxing on set between takes.
This photo was taken buy...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Rio Brazil S. America Sugarloaf Cable Car Braniff
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Rio de Janeiro issued by Braniff International Airways featuring a colourful cartoon illustration of tourists on a red cable car with people enjoyi...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Lexicon Hispano Olivetti Typewriter Graphic Design Bird
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Avant Garde advertising poster for the Lexicon Hispano Olivetti 80 typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting a colourful bird flying above a photograph of a new Olivetti typewriter...
Category
1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage ENIT Skiing Poster Advertising Santo Stefano d'avesta Italy
By Mario Puppo
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Vintage poster illustrated by Mario Puppo in the fifties for advertising on skiing in the Italian mountains, the Santo Stefano D'Aveto.
Mario Puppo w...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1955 TWA Disneyland Original Vintage Poster
By David Klein
Located in Winchester, GB
This poster was created in 1955 for Howard Hughes’ Trans World Airlines promoting their routes to Disneyland in California, USA. Illustrated by influential American artist David Klei...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, 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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