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Posters For Sale
Original Vintage Poster Pamplona San Fermin 1953 Ferias Y Fiestas Festival Spain
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the 1953 San Fermin festival in Pamplona Spain on 6-20 July / Pamplona San Fermin de 1953 del 6 al 20 de Juli...
Category
1950s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Newspaper Advertising Poster The Weekly Telegraph On The Road
By John Hassall
Located in London, GB
Original antique newspaper advertising poster - The Weekly Telegraph On The Road - featuring an illustration of a smiling man in a long white coat, ...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Posters
Materials
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...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Osaka Castle Japan Bus Tours Sakura Cherry
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Japan travel poster advertising Osaka sightseeing bus tours featuring a stunning view of the historic and culturally signi...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster EMB Buy Canadian Apples Empire Marketing Board Bison UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board EMB - Buy Canadian Apples - featuring a great design by Frederick Charles Herrick (1887-1970) depicting a bis...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Pompeii Dancing Faun Vesuvius Ancient Roman City
By Mario Puppo
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Pompei / Pompeii Italy featuring colourful artwork by the Italian graphic artist Mario Puppo (1913-1989) depicting the ancient horned Roman god statue...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Fly To The Caribbean By BOAC Wootton
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Fly to the Caribbean by BOAC - featuring a colourful illustration by the notable British painter and illustrator Frank Wootton (1911-1998...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
DR. No
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962) Staring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress. This film was directed by Terence Young. This poster was used for the films ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Long Live Chinese People's Liberation Army
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Chinese Communist Party propaganda poster - Long live the great Chinese People's Liberation Army / 伟大的中国人民解放军万岁！- featuring a soldier in military uniform holding a g...
Category
1970s Chinese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Winter Sports Poster Autriche Austria Hans Ebner Skiing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel and winter sports poster for Austria / Autriche featuring a great image of a skier leaning against a doorway holding his ski poles with his skis against the d...
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster Guinness Is Good For You Lullaby Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster - Guinness is Good for You - featuring a fun and colourful cartoon style image of the iconic smiling Guinness face reflected from the top of a pint glass with a smiling moon in a starry night sky above, the slogan in red below and a poem based on the popular children's lullaby Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1971 The Fight - Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
With fantastic artwork by the great Swiss graphic designer and poster artist Celestino Piatti, this brilliant poster was created to promote "The Fight" or "The Fight of the Century" ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Guinness Him Strong Native American Canoe
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for the iconic Irish stout beer with the caption: Guinness - Him Strong! Fun image of Native Americans in a canoe marked with a pint of Guin...
Category
1960s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Trilysin Hair Tonic Cosmetic Beauty Oil Advertising Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Day after day Trilysin The biological hair tonic that helps! The dandruff disappears The hair loss stops The hair grows again. Scientific hair care with Trilysin and Trilysin Oil - featuring a great design by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) featuring a smiling lady wearing a colourful outfit putting some hair care on her blonde hair, a man standing behind her ready to help, and an image showing the cosmetic beauty bottles...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1962 Lawrence of Arabia Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
One of the greatest and most influential films of all time, Lawrence of Arabia was originally released in 1962. Based on the life of T.E. Lawrence, the film was directed by David Lea...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Set of 57 Bellarminus Biblical Sunday School Posters in Canvas Pouches, 1950
Located in Haarlem, NL
A unique set of 57 educational bible school posters printed on canvas for Sunday School.
This set from Bellarminus came from a church in the south of Hol...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Posters
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Original Vintage WWII Poster Attack Factory Owen Stanley Mountains Pacific War
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - The Attack Begins in the Factory - depicting soldiers working together to pull heavy artillery guns up a hill with ropes and pulleys in the ju...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Wwi Poster 7 Austrian War Loan Osterreich Kriegsanleihe Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war bond poster for the 7th Austrian War Loan draw / Zeichnet 7. Oesterr. Kriegsanleihe featuring a Silhouette of a soldier...
Category
1910s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Large Original Vintage Art Deco Automobile Advertising Poster for Priceless Oil
By H. de Laurencin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for priceless oil: Motorists! Here is Priceless-Oil Use it! and your engines will be forever young / Automobilistes! ...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Ski Poster Sverige Vintersportlandet Sweden Winter Sports Dog
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski and winter sport poster - Sverige Vintersportlandet - featuring a great design by Anders Beckman (1907-1967) depicting a black and white photograph of a Norwegian Elkhound or husky...
Category
1930s Swedish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Movie Poster for the Film Taxi Driver Starring Robert De Niro
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the award winning American drama voted Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival 1976 (also Oscar nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Pi...
Category
1970s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Star Wars R1982 Japanese B2 Film Poster, Noriyoshi Ohrai
Located in Bath, Somerset
Star Wars the American epic space Sci-Fi created by George Lucas, advertised epically on this Japanese film poster by artist Noriyoshi Ohrai. This poster was created in commemoration...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Moscow Olympics Arm Wrestling Nike Goddess Of Victory
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sports poster issued for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow Russia featuring a black and white photograph of two strong arms interlocked in an arm wrestle representing the arm wrestling tournament with an illustration of a Gold Medal featuring Nike the Goddess of Victory...
Category
1970s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Saturday Evening Post Frog Jacob Abbott
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for The Saturday Evening Post magazine issue 10 June 1939 featuring wildlife artwork by the watercolour painter Jacob Bates Abbott (1895-1950) of a frog swimming in a pond and looking at a dragonfly on a lily pad with the title text above and contents promotion below - An illustrated weekly founded AD 1728 by Benj. Franklin 5c. / Below the Belt by Stephen Early...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Army Air Service "Over There!" WW I Recruitment Poster by Louis Fancher, 1918
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Offered is a 1918 WWI recruitment poster by Louis Fancher. This U.S. Army Signal Corps Recruitment Poster features an army serviceman raising one hand and...
Category
1910s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1968 Aretha Franklin - Milton Glaser Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Celebrated graphic designer Milton Glaser was commissioned to create this special poster depicting the "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin which was featured in Eye magazine in 1968.
T...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Australian Daybill Film Poster, Ohrai, Star Wars
Located in Bath, Somerset
Extremely rare first-year-of-release Australian Daybill film poster for The Empire Strikes Back. Arguably the best film of the Star Wars franchise, Nori...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Film Poster The War Of The Worlds H. G. Wells Belgian Release
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cinema advertising poster for the Belgian release of the American science fiction thriller film based on the 1898 book by H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells; 1866-1946) - The War of the Worlds / La Guerre Des Mondes - directed by Byron Haskin and produced by George Pal featuring a colourful dynamic sci-fi design showing the atomic scientist Dr Clayton Forrester played by Gene Barry hugging the terrified library science instructor Sylvia Van Buren played by Ann Robinson...
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Run DMC Photograph 'Run DMC Rushtown'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Run DMC Photograph (Run DMC Rushtown Management):
Rare vintage original Run DMC press/promotional photograph published by Rushtown Management. Circa early 1980's.
Dimensi...
Category
1980s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster by Hohlwein for Munich Zoo - Zoologischer Garten Munchen
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Munich Zoo Park / Zoologischer Garten Munchen by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949...
Category
1910s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Taiwan Republic Of China Taipei Cheongsam
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Taiwan Republic of China issued by the Taiwan Visitors Association featuring a colourful design depicting a lady wearing a traditional cheongsam dr...
Category
1960s Taiwanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Loterie Nationale' Original Vintage French Lithograph Poster, by Brenot, 1965
By Brenot
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Loterie Nationale' original vintage French lithograph poster, by Brenot, 1965
Pierre-Laurent Brenot, was a French painter who also...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Smash Japanese Aggression WWII Glosters
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - The Gloucesters, a famous regiment from Great Britain, raided Letpadan and drove the Japanese from the town, inflicting heavy casua...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Andre Giroux ABC Poster for A. Binet Auto Parts Productions
Located in Stockholm, SE
Mid-Century Andre Giroux ABC Poster for A. Binet Auto Parts Productions. Printed in France. "All the auto parts you need can be found at Productions, A. B...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Travel Poster Osterreich Austria Skiing Sunbathing Photo
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport travel poster for Osterreich Autriche Austria featuring skiers relaxing and sunbathing on deck chairs in the thick snow wearing t-shirts and ski boots...
Category
1970s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Large Vintage Laurel & Hardy Poster, "The Dancing Masters"
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A rare version of the original theatrical release poster for the black and white 1943 movie by 20th century fox. The frame obscures a name lower right.
This one is the same image as...
Category
1940s Hollywood Regency Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1972 Carpano Vermouth Original Vintage Poster
By Marcello Dudovich
Located in Winchester, GB
Carpano is named after Antonio Benedetto Carpano who, in 1786, invented the modern day vermouth in Turin. This Carpano vermouth was so popular that the store needed to be open 24 hou...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1987 Keith Haring Lucky Strike Set of Three Original Vintage Posters
By Keith Haring
Located in Winchester, GB
Cigarette brand Lucky Strike commissioned Keith Haring to design a series of posters & advertisements for them in 1987. In turn, Haring submitted 10 p...
Category
1980s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Very Rare Pan American World Airways Porcelain / Enamel Aviation Sign
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Rare mid-20th century / vintage Pan American World Airways Porcelain / Enamel Sign. This sign is for Pan American World Airways. The sign’s colors are ligh...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Messageries Maritimes Far East Map H Baille
By Hervé Baille
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Messageries Maritimes Viet-Nam / Vietnam Cambodge / Cambodia Laos Courriers d'Extreme Orient / Far East featuring a fantastic illustrated map ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Auvergne Visit France SNCF Rhone Alps Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster - Visit France Auvergne Use the Trains and Motor Coaches of French National Railroads - featuring a scenic view of ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"The Great Escape" US Film Poster, Frank McCarthy, 1963
Located in Bath, Somerset
Smashing country-of-origin poster for John Sturges classic The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough. Fantastic design by Frank McCarthy.
This v...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Ski Sport Travel Poster Winter In Austria KLM Skiers Airline
By Atelier Hofmann
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster - Winter in Austria Fly There by KLM The Skier's Airline - featuring an image of a smiling girl in a traditional hat holding ski poles with her ski...
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Nice Reine De La Cote D'Azur French Riviera Travel Sport
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel advertising poster for Nice Reine de la Cote D'Azur Fetes Sports Tourisme / Queen of the French Riviera Holidays Sports Tourism featuring scenic artwork by Pi...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Motorpsycho' Original Vintage Movie Poster, American, 1965
Located in Devon, GB
"Cyclemaniacs assaulting and killing for thrills! Bike riding hoodlums flat-out on their murder cycles."
A motorcycle blasts through the newspaper headlines on this explosive US O...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage War Home Front Recycling Poster Bones Make Explosives WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Home Front recycling poster - Bones Make Explosives Put Out All Bones For Salvage - featuring a great modernist graphic design by Reginald Mount (1906-...
Category
1940s British Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Come To Britain Windsor Castle London Cornwall
By Xenia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster published by the British Travel and Holidays Association to promote the various traditional historic and other tourist attractions for visitors - Come to...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'The Ipcress File' Original Vintage Movie Poster, South African, 1965
Located in Devon, GB
An exceedingly rare poster for the South African release of the 1965 British espionage thriller 'The Ipcress File' starring Michael Caine as agent Harry P...
Category
1960s South African Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Original Vintage London Underground Poster Whitechapel Art Gallery Bruce McLean
By Bruce McLean
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Underground poster - Whitechapel Art Gallery next door to Aldgate East station - featuring an abstract design by the Scottish sculptor and painter Bruce McLean...
Category
1980s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Getaway (1979r)
Located in London, GB
The Getaway (1979r)
Original British Quad (30 X 40 Inches)
Original 1979 re-release British Quad
The artwork by Putzu for the 1979 re-release of The Getaway in the UK was far bette...
Category
1970s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Dover Castle British Rail Reginald Lander
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster - Visit Dover Castle - featuring artwork by the notable commercial artist and poster designer Reginald Montague Lander (1913-1980) depicting a fa...
Category
1970s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Sonia Delaunay Exhibition 1968 Original Vintage Poster
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Exhibition poster for Sonia Delaunay printed by legendary printmakers Mourlot. This poster is framed in natural oak, please see photos.
Category
1960s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Music Poster Mr Felix Brass Band South Border Jazz Club Dixie
Located in London, GB
Original vintage music advertising poster for Mr Felix Brass Band at the South Border Jazz Club in Bad Honnef on Saturday 20 May featuring a black and white design with a trumpet in ...
Category
1970s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Japanese Travel Poster Hotel Rakuyo Kyoto Station Japan Asia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Hotel Rakuyo In front of Kyoto Station featuring an illustration of the hotel with cars and buses parked outside, the bold title text and information in Japanese around the image with details that the hotel is fully equipped with air conditioning...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Lluminated Advertisement Coca-Cola 80s, Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
Good original condition
Case is from bakelite, picture is under glass
Advertisement lights on 2 bulbs
Fully working.
Category
1980s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Glass, Bakelite
Original Vintage Soviet Sports Poster Volleyball World Championship USSR Moscow
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sports poster for the Second World Championship Men's Volleyball / Второе Первенство Мира по Волеиболу для Мужских Команд held at the D...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Gion Festival Kyoto Float Procession Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising the Gion Festival Float Procession in Kyoto on 17 and 25 July featuring artwork depicting a large traditional float mounted on a wooden car...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Poland Sekowa Gothic Wooden Catholic Church
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Visit Poland / Visitez la Pologne l'Eglise en Boise a Sekowa 1540 - featuring an illustration in pink and purple of the historic Gothic wooden church of St Philip...
Category
1950s Polish Vintage Posters
Materials
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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