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Posters For Sale
1969 Disneyland - 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning & exceptionally rare attraction poster from 1969 promoting the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea attraction in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Opening in 1955 in Anaheim, California,...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Patrick Nagel Playboy Portfolio II Poster Framed Signed by Playboy Dated Rare
Located in San Diego, CA
1989 rare framed poster for Playboy portfolio signed in the back and dated 1989, printed in cardboard framed, these pieces are more rare and collectible we removed the frame and clea...
Category
20th Century American Post-Modern Posters
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Paper
Framed Print of Adolfo Hohenstein's Poster for Puccini's Tosca
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A framed print Adolfo Hohenstein's poster for the 1900 premiere of Puccini's Tosca. Printed in Italy. Professionally matted and framed with acid free paper and museum quality, anti-r...
Category
2010s Italian Art Nouveau Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Army Of Book Lovers Children Reading Knowledge Education
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet education poster - Reading is the best teaching! - featuring advice by the notable Russian author Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov; 1868-1936): Love a B...
Category
1980s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1947 Film Noir starring Lawrence Tierney and Ted North and directed by Felix E. Feist.
This poster is conservation paper backed and it would be shipp...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Hunger
Located in London, GB
Original American film poster for the 1983 Vampire film starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. This film was directed by Tony Scott.
This poster is unfolded and ...
Category
1980s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster The Army Of Today's All Right British Army Recruitment
Located in London, GB
Original antique military recruitment poster - The Army of Today's All Right! - featuring a great design of a smiling soldier smoking a pipe on a blue background with the stylised bo...
Category
1910s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Original French Film Poster Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is an original vintage poster promoting the American film, Stranger Than Paradise directed by Jim Jarmusch.
SYNOPSIS
New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
1970 Maserati - Donna II - Rene Gruau Original Vintage Poster
By René Gruau
Located in Winchester, GB
A beautifully illustrated poster for luxury car manufacturer Maserati, "Donna II", with artwork created by iconic poster designer Rene Gruau. Gruau was well known for his collaborati...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Pulp Fiction
Located in London, GB
Original pair of black and white photographic production stills for Quentin Tarantino Classic, 1994 cult thriller starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Harvey Ke...
Category
Late 20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
1959 Cannes Film Festival Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
This poster for the 6th Cannes International Film Festival in 1959, held from June 9th to 13th in Cannes, France. The beautiful design is vibrant in colour with wonderful mid century...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1983 Scarface Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Directed by Brian De Palma, "Scarface" was released in 1983 and has gone on to become one of the most iconic and imitated gangster films of the past 40 ...
Category
1980s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Citizen Kane
Located in London, GB
Original American double weight glossy finish studio photograph for the 1941 film Citizen Kane This film starred Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and was directed by Orson Welles.
Ther...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Film Poster They Were Not Divided Tank Division Modernism
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two movie poster - A Two Cities Film They Were Not Divided The British film of every man who served - about the real life experiences of the Welsh Guards t...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1986 Laputa Castle In The Sky (Japanese) Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Castle in the Sky, known as Laputa: Castle in the Sky in Europe and Australia, is a 1986 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was the f...
Category
1980s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage 1936 Travel Advertising Poster for 7 Days London by Hamburg Sud
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Seven Day London Travel with M.S. Monte Rosa in August and September 1936 from RM 65 full catering included Hambu...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Railways Poster England Stately Homes Newby Yorkshire
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by British Railways - England's Stately Homes - featuring colourful artwork of Newby Hall in Yorkshire with a view from the River Ure of people ...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Fine Art Exhibition Poster MODIGLIANI DEPUIS BONNARD, 1957
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage Fine art exhibition poster MODIGLIANI DEPUIS BONNARD, 1957
This is an original vintage poster from 1957
Artist
Modi...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Back Them Up WWII Battle Artillery Coastal Battery Cuneo
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Back Them Up! - featuring dramatic artwork by the notable British artist Terence Tenison Cuneo (1907-1996) showing five soldiers in uniform loading and firing a cannon gun from the shore with another artillery gun firing...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Rolls Royce Silver Shadow Olympic Stadium Munich Germany
Located in London, GB
Original vintage car advertising poster for Rolls Royce The best car in Germany - featuring a photo of a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow car on cobblestones wi...
Category
1970s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster For The Irkutsk Football League In Siberia Russia Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster promoting the Football League in Irkutsk Russia featuring a great design depicting a footballer wearing striped shorts and kicking a ball with the styli...
Category
1920s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Underground Poster Hercules Nemean Lion Greek Mythology
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by the Underground Electric Railway Company Ltd.: Overcome the difficulty of the journey travel by underground. Stunning black and white design by Frederick Charles Herrick (1887-1970) of a muscular man fighting and slaying the Nemean lion under the title - Hercules - depicting the first of the Twelve Labors of Hercules from Greek mythology - with the stylized text below. The London Electric Railway (LER; 1910-1933) operated three lines on the London Underground until it was merged into the London Passenger Transport Board. Printed by Sanders and Phillips Co...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Miles Aldridge Scream #4 2011 Poster, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Poster of Miles Aldridges' work Scream #4, 2011 featuring a woman on a retro pink telephone, red-lipsticked mouth open in a provocative gasp or mock scr...
Category
2010s Posters
Materials
Paper
1971 Robert Indiana - Love - Stable Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Typically vibrant and precise, this great poster depicts the iconic "Love in Blue and green" by American Pop Artist Robert Indiana, promoting his exhibition at the Stable Gallery in ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Deco Poster For Bally Shoes - So Cheap And Yet A Bally Shoe
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Bally Shoes - So cheap and yet a Bally shoe / So billig und doch ein Bally schuh. Great Art Deco image featuring a smartly dressed gentleman i...
Category
1930s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1969 The Who - Premier of Tommy - Ronnie Scotts Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Iconic poster for a legendary gig, this beautiful piece of music history was created in 1969 to promote The Who's live premiere of their fourth album "Tommy". Featuring fantastic art...
Category
1960s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Air France Fleche D'Orient Winged Arrow Design Travel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Air France Fleche D'Orient featuring a dynamic winged arrow design by the Italian artist Paolo Federico Garretto (1903-1991) listing the places served by the airline in white letters with wings flying on the sides - Paris, Strasbourg, Nuremberg, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Bucharest, Istanbul - against the deep blue sky and pale yellow corner...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Map of Ireland Showing Places of Note & Interest
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster - Map of Ireland showing places of note and interest. Colorful illustrated map of Ireland by David William Burley (1901-1990) including images of historic arc...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Loose Talk Can Cost Lives Don't Be A Dope WWII Warning
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Loose Talk Can Cost Lives Don't Be a Dope and Spread Inside Dope - featuring great artwork by the American commercial illustrator a...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Star Wars US 1 Sheet US INTERNATIONAL STYLE Cl Film Movie Poster, 1977, CHANTREL
Located in Bath, Somerset
Probably the most iconic imagery and poster for Star Wars.The US 1 sheet style C film poster - a key item for any serious Star Wars collector. This one is in incredible, very rare RO...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
"Teammates in Mankind's Greatest Adventure" Signed Poster by National Geographic
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is an original autographed poster from a 1973 issue of National Geographic magazine, celebrating the historic Apollo missions from the fir...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Russian Civil War Poster For The Red Army There Are No Barriers
Located in London, GB
Original antique Soviet propaganda poster - For The Red Army There Are No Barriers! - featuring a great illustration of Soviet soldiers in uniform with rifle guns climbing over a rough hilly terrain with soldiers holding up red flags as the troops march towards a beaming red star shaped sun in the distance, the stylised text in Russian above. Rare early poster printed during the Russian Civil War...
Category
1910s Ukrainian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Railway Poster - In War and Peace We Serve GWR LMS LNER SR
By Reginald Mayes
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two travel advertising poster - In War and Peace We Serve - published by the Big Four railway companies of the time (1923-1947): Great Western Railway GWR,...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1966 Buffalo Springfield - Avalon Ballroom Original Vintage poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by concert poster artist Ned Lamont, this beautiful poster was created in 1966 to promote a live concert of Buffalo Springfield at the world famous Avalon Ballroom in San Fr...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Train of Events" Original British Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1949 Ealing Studios drama starring Valerie Hobson, Jack Warner,Gladys Henson. The film was directed by Sidney Cole, Ch...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
2001 Martini - Andy Warhol Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by the legendary Andy Warhol in 1958, this poster for "Martini" depicts a stylised glass with ice reading "Sweetest thing on the rocks!". Beginning in the mid-19th Century i...
Category
Early 2000s Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Sri Lanka Ceylon Tea Poster for Thé Kooh-i-Noor Thé De Ceylan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage tea drink advertising poster for a black tea produced in Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Kooh-i-Noor Ceylon Tea / Thé Kooh-i-Noor Thé de Ceylan. Great illustration of a man wear...
Category
1920s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Marilyn Monroe "Bus Stop" 1956 Original Linen Backed Theatrical Poster
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Bus Stop 1956 full-length poster of cowboy Don Murray holding a very sexy Marilyn Monroe beside a bus stop sign. An original vintage linen backed o...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Posters
Materials
Paper
1973 David Bowie, Aladdin Sane Original Vintage Poster
By David Bowie
Located in Winchester, GB
One of the most iconic & recognisable album artworks of all-time, this beautiful poster for David Bowie's sixth album "Aladdin Sane" was created in 1973....
Category
1970s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Silent Movie Poster Lucky Horseshoe Monty Banks Russian Release
Located in London, GB
Original vintage silent movie poster for the Russian release of a film Lucky Horseshoe / Подкова Счастья starring the great comedy actor and film director Monty Banks (Mario Bianchi / Montague Banks; 1897-1950). Colourful design featuring a gentleman with a moustache looking out to the viewer, wearing a purple jacket and tie with checked trousers...
Category
1920s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original 1935 Art Deco London Transport Horse Racing Poster Epsom Spring Meeting
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sports poster issued by London Transport for the 1935 Epsom Horse Race - Epsom Spring Meeting April 20 21 and 22 Buses every 2 minutes from Morden Station to the Rac...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1978 Rolling Stones - Some Girls Original Vintage Poster
By Peter Corriston
Located in Winchester, GB
"Some Girls" was released by The Rolling Stones in 1978 and was a major critical and commercial success, also marking Ronnie Wood's debut album as a full time member of the band. Fea...
Category
1970s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Margaritten Tag Dresden Daisy Flowers Child Charity Day
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster advertising the Marguerites Daisies Day in Dresden / Margaritten Tag Zu Dresden on 13 May 1911 featuring a great image of a young child sitting inside a wreath of yellow and white Marguerite daisy flowers catching gold coins falling from the centre of the ring above, set against a dark background with the bold stylised lettering below. Blumentag / Flower Days were held in Germany from 1910-1914 in support of child and baby nursery...
Category
1910s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Henri Matisse, 'Musee National D’art Moderne' Original Exhibition Poster, 1956
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Between 1900 and 1905, Matisse painted in the style called Fauves (French for “wild beasts”). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906. Matisse developed ...
Category
1950s French Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage 1950s French Government Tourism Poster 'Champs-Elysees'
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage 1950s French Government Tourism poster 'Champs-Elysees'
This is an original vintage travel tourism poster, it was printed and publis...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Other
Original Vintage Poster A Friend To The Farmer Shell Tractor Oil Wrens Farm View
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Shell Tractor Lubrication - A Friend to the Farmer Shell Tractor Oil - featuring colorful artwork depicting two wrens foraging for food in the grass next to muddy tractor tyre tracks by an open gate with one bird on the stone wall ledge...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Shell Poster Film Stars Use Shell You Can Be Sure Of Shell
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Film Stars Use Shell You Can Be Sure Of Shell - featuring colourful artwork by Cathleen Sabine Mann (189...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Late 19th Century Original French Poster, 'Samaritaine; c. 1883
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Late 19th Century Original French Poster, 'Samaritaine; c. 1883
This is an original poster which has been linen backed for preservation, the overall condition is very good.
ARTIST...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Ludwig Oswald Wenckebach 1924 Dutch Poster for Leiden University
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A striking poster by the Dutch artist Ludwig Oswald Wenckebach in 1924, designed for the production of an avant-garde nocturnal play on the of the 70th anniversary lustrum of Leiden ...
Category
1920s Dutch Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Godzilla vs Monster Zero R1971 Japanese B2 Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
The fantastic country-of-origin Japanese poster for Godzilla vs Monster Zero (aka Invasion of Astro Monster). Beautiful colours.
Japanese design typically features wonderful montage...
Category
20th Century Japanese Posters
Materials
Paper
The Italian Job 1969 US 1 Sheet Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
We love the design that features on this original first-year-of-release US 1 Sheet film poster for 60s classic The Italian Job. A design that truly blows the bloody doors off any room you put it in! A rare, highly collectible poster.
The Italian Job poster...
Category
20th Century American Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Antique Adriatic Exhibition Poster Coast Design Ft Ships Knight Mermaid
By Kurt Libesny
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel advertising poster for Adria Ausstellung / The Adriatic Exhibition featuring a stunning illustration by Kurt Libesny (1892-1938) of a knight in armour holding...
Category
1910s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1959 Pablo Picasso - Musee Cantini Marseille Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Featuring a typical cubist portrait painting "Still Life with Bull Skull" from 1942, this stunning and rare poster was created in 1959 for a Pablo Picasso exhibition...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage French Theatre and Cabaret Poster by René Gruau, 1966
By René Gruau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage French theatre and cabaret poster by René Gruau, 1966
René Gruau was a fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion d...
Category
1960s French International Style Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Midcentury French 'Campari Soda' Poster by Mingozzi, 1950
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage midcentury French 'Campari Soda' poster by Mingozzi, 1950
This original vintage lithograph poster epitomizes the opulent 1950s era. Th...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Other
Original Vintage GWR Great Western Railway Travel Poster for Cornwall by Train
Located in London, GB
Original vintage GWR Great Western Railway travel advertising poster for Cornwall featuring a great illustration by the artist, metal worker and designer Gregory Brown (Frederic Greg...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1981 An American Werewolf in London Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The John Landis directed "An American Werewolf in London" was released in 1981 to great critical and commercial success. Starring David Naughton as the unlucky backpacker who becomes...
Category
1980s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Ww2 American Airlines Poster, It Takes 2 to Make a Fight for Victory
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two American Airlines poster, It Takes 2 To Make A Fight For Victory, American Airlines AA, We are American. Image...
Category
1940s American 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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