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Posters For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: Early 1900s
Original Vintage WWII Poster London Blitz Bombarded Street War Office Training
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Street Scenes Series Fig. 2 (to be viewed at 4-5 yards) - issued by the War Office and intended for rifle shooting directional training featuring artwork by Beric Young (1902-1963) depicting a war torn London street scene with damaged buildings and broken windows, fallen pylons, a tank under rubble from a bank, a double decker bus on its side and an ambulance crashed into a bomb crater in the road, the colourful image including trees, factories and chimneys, a Co-Op Cooperative Stores shop and a hospital on the hills in the background, London Underground stations and a clock tower in the centre, a teashop, church spire, camouflage tank, railway train signals...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster A La Place Clichy Sumer Season Fashion Paris
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the Parisian department store A La Place Clichy promoting its special fashion Summer Sale on Monday 1 April - A La...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Henri Cassiers Fishermen Belgium Dutch Harbour
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster for Belgium featuring an illustration by Henri Cassiers (1858-1944) depicting three fishermen standing to...
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Early 1900s Belgian Antique Posters
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Paper
"Night at the Follies" 1947 Original Linen Backed Theatrical Poster Evelyn West
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
"Night at the Follies" 1947 an original vintage linen backed one-sheet theatrical film movie poster. Size is 30 X 44 with the linen added.
A Night at the Follies, the 1947 W. Merle Connell burlesque documentary ("Daring!"; "Gorgeous Girls Great comedians Glamorous dancers"; "You've heard about it! You've read about it! Now see Big Time Burlesque Just as presented at the world famous follies theatre in Los Angeles"; "Something new in entertainment!"; "Evelyn West...
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1940s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster Danny Gurtler Munchner Hof Cabaret Artist Munich Theatre
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster - Munchner Hof Danny Gurtler - featuring an image of a moustached man wearing a hat and holding a hammer over his shoulder in black and white, his shirt in re...
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Early 1900s German Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Michelin Man Tyres Bibendum Bicycle Cigar
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Michelin tyres featuring a great illustration showing the trademark Bibendum character - the iconic Michelin Man figure made from tyres - smok...
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Early 1900s Belgian Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Back Them WWII Up Hudsons Coastal Command
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Back Them Up! A raid by "Hudsons" of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aelesund Norway in which eleven ships were hit - fea...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage WWII Travel Poster Good Old Days Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two travel poster - Back to the Good Old Days! ...National needs come first! Travel only when you must! - issued by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIP...
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1940s Indian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Silence Enemy Watching Paul Colin WWII
By Paul Colin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster Silence - The Enemy is Watching for your confidences / Silence, l'Ennemi guette vos confidences - Design by Paul Colin (1892-1985) features two ...
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1940s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Quiet Stop Needless Noise WWII Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two warning poster - Quiet! Stop needless noise Noise wastes energy, dissipates manpower, slows war production - featuring a dynamic image of a man in a he...
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1940s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sports Poster Kandersteg Schweiz Suisse Switzerland Ski
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sports poster for the Swiss alpine resort of Kandersteg Schweiz Suisse Switzerland located in the Bernese Oberlan...
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1940s Swiss Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Share Sugar WWII Modernism US Rationing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Propaganda poster Share Sugar - It's war-scarce its war-necessary - Design features a box of sugar on a yellow background with bold black lettering. Is...
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1940s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Africa Travel Poster Belgian Congo Congo Belge Illustrated Map
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Africa travel poster for the Belgian Congo / Congo Belge including a pictorial map of French Equatorial Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Tanganyika, Rhodesia and Angola. Desig...
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1940s Belgian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Britain Pan Am Airline Clipper Mark Von Arenburg
Located in London, GB
Original vintage PanAm travel poster - Fly to Britain by Clipper Pan American World Airways The System of the Flying Clippers - featuring colourful artwork depicting a Royal Coldstre...
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1940s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Lick Them Over There WWII Canada Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Lick Them Over There! Come On Canada! - featuring a dramatic image depicting soldier in uniform holding a bayonet rifle gun in one hand and lo...
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1940s Canadian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Journey into Fear
Located in London, GB
Original American photographic production still.
For the 1942 Film Noir Journey into Fear. The film starred Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles ...
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1940s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Circuit Des Ardennes Belge 1906 Arthur Duray
Located in London, GB
Original antique motorsport poster promoting Circuit Des Ardennes Belge 1906 race winner Arthur Duray - Design features red and green cars racing on ...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Skiing Poster Dartmouth College Winter Carnival 1941 Ski USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing poster for the Dartmouth Winter Carnival held on 7-8 February 1941 featuring a dynamic design by Stanley Samuelson Pratt Institute depicting a skier wearing a...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster SSAFA Soldiers Sailors Airmen Families Association
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - SSAFA Soldiers' Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association - The Fighting Man's link with his home. For Forces' Families Flag Day, September 3rd...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Sport Travel Poster Come To Britain For Golf Rowland Hilder UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport themed travel poster - Come to Britain for Golf - Artwork by the notable British painter Rowland Hilder (1905-1933) featuring four men playing golf alongside a...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Royal Leamington Spa Claude Henry Buckle
By Connor Buckley
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Royal Leamington Spa issued by British Railways featuring a great design by Claude Henry Buckle (1905-1973) depicting the Jephson Gardens Victorian...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster BEA Lineas Aereas Britanicas London
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster issued by BEA - Lineas Aereas Britanicas - featuring a stunning design showing a plane flying from Madrid in Spain to Londres / London in E...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Speed Your Message Imperial Radio Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Art Deco poster advertising British radio telecommunication services - Speed your message via Imperial Eastern Empiradio or Marconi - featuring a stunning geometric ...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Train Travel Poster Scottish National Exhibition Edinburgh
Located in London, GB
Original antique train travel advertising poster for Scotland - Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest & de Brighton / Western and Brighton Railways Scottish National Exhibition Edinburgh May to ...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster British Railways Handle Party Outing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Let British Railways Handle Your Party Outing - featuring a great graphic design of colourful hands holding a cut out paper chain of peop...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Chemins De Fer De l'Etat Et De Brighton Toussaint
Located in London, GB
Original antique train travel poster - Chemins de Fer de l'Etat et de Brighton Paris a Londres par Rouen Dieppe & Newhaven departs tous les jours matin et soir de la Gare St. Lazare ...
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Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique French Advertising Poster Cottereau Misti Dijon Belle Epoque
Located in London, GB
Original antique French advertising poster for Cottereau & Cie Dijon featuring Belle Epoque artwork by Misti (Ferdinand Mifliez; 186...
Category
Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Brixen Bressanone Dolomiti Dolomites Tyrol Italy
By Filippo Romoli
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Bressanone m.560 Dolomiti Italy / Brixen in the Dolomites featuring a colourful design by Filippo Romoli (1901-1969) depicting a smilin...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage 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...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Original Vintage Guinness Poster My Goodness Where's The Guinness Goose
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage Guinness poster - My Goodness where's the Guinness? - featuring fun artwork by the British graphic designer Alfred Ambrose Chew L...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
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
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Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster The Enemy Is Listening Careless Talk Secretary
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster issued in Nazi Germany - Hans schreibt seine Division kommt nach... pst! Feind hort mit! / Hans writes his division comes after... psst! The ene...
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1940s German Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Make Do And Mend Save Buying New Clothing Rationing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Make do and mend Save buying new - issued in support of the government campaign encouraging people to repair reuse and reimagine their clothes...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Sports Poster Olympic Games Helsinki 1940 Finland Athlete
By Ilmari Sysimetsa
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sports poster for the 1940 Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki Finland featuring a dynamic image depicting the sculpture ...
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1940s Finnish Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Lago Di Como Lake Lariana Italy Belle Epoque
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster for Lago di Como featuring elegant Belle Epoque artwork depicting a lady in a floral pink rose dress with a flower in he...
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Early 1900s Italian Belle Époque Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage London County Council Poster Election Vote Conservative Union
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London County Council poster - LCC Election Thursday 7 March 1946 We've had enough socialist promises Now let's have houses Vo...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Weymouth GWR SR Railway Map Express Train
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster advertising Weymouth and District Frequent Express Trains and Cheap Fares GWR Great Western Railway SR Southern Railway featuring a pictorial map of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis with significant locations and historical events marked on the map including illustrations in Weymouth Bay of sailing boats near the shore, navy battle ships, fishing boats and an angling description, the Shambles light ship, and the captions Weymouth ships captured two galleons from the Spanish Armada / Weymouth furnished 20 ships and 265 mariners for the Siege of Calais in 1345, as well as places of interest and sporting activities on land such as Roman remains and villa, the grave of Lawrence of Arabia, golf, people on horses, steam trains on routes marked in red through the hills, rivers, trees and towns, sub-tropical gardens, bird sanctuary, churches, the Race at Portland Bill...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Airspan Travel Corsica Awaits You
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Airspan Travel Limited Corsica Awaits You... featuring an image of a plane flying above a map of Corsica island with a smiling lady in a red headscarf and Ajaccio marked on the map set...
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1940s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage London County Council Poster Freedom Vote Conservative Election
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London County Council poster - LCC Election Thursday 7 March You fought for freedom Break that link Vote Conservative - featur...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage London County Council Poster Election Give Best Chance In Life
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London County Council poster - LCC Election Thursday 7 March Give them the best chance in life Vote Conservative - featuring an illustration of a school boy making a...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster Lady Driver Classic Car Art Nouveau Automobile Artwork
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster featuring an Art Nouveau style depiction of a lady with blue eyes wearing a coat and driving gloves holding a car wheel, her headscarf on her hat fluttering in the wind as she looks towards the viewer, driving behind the wheel of a classic automobile...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Pan Am Travel Map Poster South America Continent Of Contrasts
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Pan Am travel advertising map poster - South America Continent of Contrasts served by Pan American World Airways and Pan American Grace ...
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1940s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Civil Defence Women Wanted For Evacuation Service
By Jack Mathew
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster: Civil Defence, Women wanted for Evacuation Service, offer your services to your local council or any branch of Women's Voluntary Services. Imag...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Leonetto Cappiello, Original Vintage Alcohol Poster, Cognac Pellisson, 1907
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for Cognac Pellisson by Leonetto Cappiello dating from 1907.
This is the larger version of the two posters printed by Leonett...
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Mexico Alfonso X Pena Midcentury Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Mexico featuring stunning artwork by the Mexican artist Alfonso X Pena (1903-1964) depicting a lady holding yellow, pink a...
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1940s Mexican Vintage Posters
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Paper
Large Early Original Antique Drink Advertising Poster - Bitter Campari Aperitif
By Adolfo Hohenstein
Located in London, GB
Original antique three panel drink advertising poster for the Italian bitter aperitif alcohol brand Campari featuring a striking oval framed Art Nouvea...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Posters
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Paper
Leonetto Cappiello, Original Vintage Poster, Champagne Delbeck, Reims, 1902
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Alcohol Poster for Champagne Delbeck dating from 1902 by Leonetto Cappiello.
Artist: Leonetto Cappiello (1875 - 1942)
Title: Champagne Delbeck
Date: 1902
Size...
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Posters
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Paper
WW2 Factory Safety Poster Circa 1940s
Located in Gloucester, GB
WW2 Factory Safety Poster Circa 1940s
- Original litho poster
- Designed by Bruce Angrave
- Framed in a black wooden frame with glass
- English ~ 1940s
- 52cm wide x 78.5cm tall
B...
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1940s English Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster GPO 8 Million Telephone Calls Modernism Pat Keely Post
By Pat Keely
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster published by the General Post Office GPO - 8,000,000 telephone calls a day - featuring a great graphic design by the notable British artist Pat Keely (Patrick...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Fruits Of Victory National Savings WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - To Enjoy the Fruits of Victory Save Now - featuring a countryside illustration From the original by Rowland Hilder (1905-1993) depicting a rur...
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1940s Vintage Posters
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Paper
Robys, Original Vintage Wine Poster, Monsoleil, Wine, Grape, Hat, Sun, 1940
By Robys
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for Monsoleil, Wine poster, created by Robys in 1940.
Artist: Robys (Robert Wolff 1916-1995)
Title: Monsoleil – Les bons vins...
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1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Skiing Travel Poster Alpes And Jura PLM Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport and skiing travel poster - Alpes & Jura Eight days of winter sports A whole year of health / Huit jours de sports d'hiver Toute une annee de sante - fea...
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1940s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Skiing Poster Ski France Frankenreich Winter Sport Jean Leger
By Jean Leger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing poster advertising Winter Sports in France / Wintersport in Frankreich - featuring a great design depicting a couple on skis enjoying the view of the snowy mo...
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1940s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Transatlantique French Line Le Havre Southampton
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - Cie Gle Transatlantique French Line Le Havre Southampton New York - featuring artwork by the French artist Albert Brenet (1903-2005) depicting an ocean liner sailing at sea with the stylised title text above and against the choppy white waves below. Founded in 1861 (having been established in 1855 by the brothers Emile and Issac Pereire), the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique CGT was a French shipping company known as French Line and Transat; it merged with Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes...
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1940s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Rare Original Vintage WWII Poster British Soviet Handshake Nazi Berlin USSR
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage World War Two poster with a short poem written by the Soviet writer, translator and poet Samuil Marshak (1887-1964): The brotherly nations have appointed a date...
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1940s Russian 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
Mr Chad WW2 National Savings Poster Circa 1940s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Mr Chad WW2 National Savings Poster Circa 1940s
- Original WW2 national savings poster
- Features one of the first illustrations of Mr Chad
- Framed in a Black wooden frame with gla...
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1940s English Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Great Northern Railway Ireland Hotels Bundoran
Located in London, GB
Original antique northern Ireland travel poster - Hotels Bundoran Rostrevor County Donegal & County Down Ireland - features two picturesque views depicting holiday makers enjoying the sandy beach at the seaside with beach huts and walks along the cliffs in front the grand hotels and hills in the background, the title with the Great Northern Railway Ireland...
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Early 1900s British Antique 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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