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Rope
Rope

Rope

$404

Rope

Located in London, GB

Original gloss finish studio photographs, gloss for Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 thriller Rope. This classic Hitchcock film starred James Stewart, J. Dall and Farley Granger. This piece...

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1940s American Vintage Posters

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The Glass Key
The Glass Key

The Glass Key

Located in London, GB

Original US lobby card for the 1942 Film Noir The Glass Key. This film starred Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. This lobby card is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in an Obeche w...

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1940s American Vintage Posters

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1971 Rolling Stones, UK Tour Original Vintage Poster
1971 Rolling Stones, UK Tour Original Vintage Poster

1971 Rolling Stones, UK Tour Original Vintage Poster

By John Pasche

Located in Winchester, GB

Known as the "Farewell to England" tour, the Rolling Stones 1971 UK Tour took place across 10 days in March 1971 across 9 cities and saw the Stones at their absolute peak. They released the iconic "Sticky Fingers" a few weeks after the tour. After being commissioned to create the 1970 European Tour poster, and in turn, creating the iconic Stones tongue and lip logo, British designer John Pasche was recruited to create this iconic poster. Featuring an old car driving down the countryside roads...

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1970s British Vintage Posters

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"For Defense, Buy United States Savings Bonds and Stamps." Vintage WWII Poster
"For Defense, Buy United States Savings Bonds and Stamps." Vintage WWII Poster

"For Defense, Buy United States Savings Bonds and Stamps." Vintage WWII Poster

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

This is a vintage savings bond poster from WWII, dating to 1941. The poster reads "For Defense. Buy United States Savings Bonds and Stamps. Ask About Our Pay Roll Allotment Plan" in dark green, teal, and red lettering. The poster was published in Washington, D.C. by the U. S. Government Printing Office. It depicts the Concord Minute Man...

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1940s American Vintage Posters

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1972 Carpano Original Vintage Poster
1972 Carpano Original Vintage Poster

1972 Carpano Original Vintage Poster

By Achille Luciano Mauzan

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 hours a day to cope with demand. The Carpano brand is still produced today, nearly 250 years later. The piece has fantastic artwork from French poster artist Achille Luciano Mauzan...

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1970s Vintage Posters

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Paper

Wissembourg Jester Original Vintage Lithograph c. 1880
Wissembourg Jester Original Vintage Lithograph c. 1880

Wissembourg Jester Original Vintage Lithograph c. 1880

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

This poster was created in the 1880’s in the own of Wissembourg. Each poster in the series was created by the C. Burckardt printing firm in the 1880s. All posters in this series hav...

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Early 1800s French Belle Époque Antique Posters

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Paper

Dead Reckoning
Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

Located in London, GB

Original candid photographic production still for the 1947 Film Noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott. This film was directed by John Cromwe...

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1940s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

1965 Air France, South America Original Vintage Poster
1965 Air France, South America Original Vintage Poster

1965 Air France, South America Original Vintage Poster

By Jacques Nathan-Garamond

Located in Winchester, GB

With fabulous artwork from French artist Nathan (Jacques Nathan-Garamond) who worked on several Air France posters of the era, this poster promoting the airlines routes to South Amer...

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1960s French Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster To The Merchant Navy Thank You WWII Thumbs Up Artwork
Original Vintage Poster To The Merchant Navy Thank You WWII Thumbs Up Artwork

Original Vintage Poster To The Merchant Navy Thank You WWII Thumbs Up Artwork

Located in London, GB

Original vintage World War Two poster - To the Merchant Navy Thank You! - featuring two men wearing suits and hats and holding briefcases, one smoking a pipe, showing their thumbs up...

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1940s British Vintage Posters

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Paper

Early 20th Century Human Anatomy Educational Poster
Early 20th Century Human Anatomy Educational Poster

Early 20th Century Human Anatomy Educational Poster

Located in Hook, Hampshire

Early 20th Century Human Anatomy Educational Poster Early 20th Century Human Anatomy Educational Poster. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall...

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Early 20th Century Czech Posters

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Victor Moscoso, Signed Vintage Exhibition Poster ‘Trippy World’
Victor Moscoso, Signed Vintage Exhibition Poster ‘Trippy World’

Victor Moscoso, Signed Vintage Exhibition Poster ‘Trippy World’

By Victor Moscoso

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Signed vintage Victor Moscoso exhibition poster Published in conjunction with 'Trippy World' - a 1999 exhibition held at Baron/Boisante gallery, New York. Off-set lithograph Measures: 16 x 20 inches Hand signed in pencil (lower right). Very good to excellent overall condition Signed First printing; 1999; acquired directly from Baron/Boisante. Victor Moscoso was among the most gifted and influential artists to emerge from the '60s counterculture, pioneering not only the psychedelic concert poster designs made famous during San Francisco's Summer of Love, but also making his mark in underground comix. Born in Spain and raised in Brooklyn, Moscoso attended Cooper Union Art School before studying at the Yale School of Art; he arrived on the west coast in 1959 to enroll at the San Francisco Art Institute, and after graduation remained at the school for another five years to teach lithography. Alongside Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, and Alton Kelley...

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1960s Bohemian Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster For Canada By Sabena Airlines RCMP Mountie Design
Original Vintage Travel Poster For Canada By Sabena Airlines RCMP Mountie Design

Original Vintage Travel Poster For Canada By Sabena Airlines RCMP Mountie Design

By Gaston van den Eynde

Located in London, GB

Original vintage travel advertising poster - verso il Canada con la Sabena / to Canada with Sabena (the national airline of Belgium from 1923-2001) - featuring a colourful mid-century design showing a smiling Canadian Mounted Police officer wearing the iconic red jacket and brown hat looking towards a traditional carved totem pole...

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1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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Original Exhibition Poster, ROUAULT ‘MUSEE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC’, 1956
Original Exhibition Poster, ROUAULT ‘MUSEE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC’, 1956

Original Exhibition Poster, ROUAULT ‘MUSEE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC’, 1956

By Mourlot

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

Artist  Rouault Year 1956 Dimensions  73 x 53 cm Condition  Good Format Unlinen backed Printer Mourlot.  

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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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Paper

'The Thomas Crown Affair' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968
'The Thomas Crown Affair' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968

'The Thomas Crown Affair' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968

Located in Devon, GB

Starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunawaye, Norman Jewison's stylish 1968 caper 'The Thomas Crown Affair' saw debonair bank executive and multi-million dollar heist mastermind Thomas C...

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1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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Paper, Linen

Original Vintage Poster Morocco North Africa Exhibition Sale Galeries Modernes
Original Vintage Poster Morocco North Africa Exhibition Sale Galeries Modernes

Original Vintage Poster Morocco North Africa Exhibition Sale Galeries Modernes

Located in London, GB

Original vintage advertising poster for a Morocco exhibition and sale of works from 20 March to 15 April at the Galeries Modernes in Utrecht / Marocco Tentoonstelling (tevens verkoop) featuring a great illustration of a lady in a white niqab headdress with examples of traditional Moroccan architecture...

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1950s Dutch Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Poster Cyrk Polish Circus Art Acrobat Clown Cyclist Bicycle Act
Original Vintage Poster Cyrk Polish Circus Art Acrobat Clown Cyclist Bicycle Act

Original Vintage Poster Cyrk Polish Circus Art Acrobat Clown Cyclist Bicycle Act

Located in London, GB

Original vintage Polish circus advertising poster - Cyrk - featuring a fun and colourful image of an acrobat clown performing a balancing act backwards on a bike with his head on the...

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1960s Polish Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Be A Real Eastern Skier USEASA Amateur Ski Association
Original Vintage Poster Be A Real Eastern Skier USEASA Amateur Ski Association

Original Vintage Poster Be A Real Eastern Skier USEASA Amateur Ski Association

Located in London, GB

Original vintage American skiing poster - Be A Real Eastern Skier / Support USEASA United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association (founded 1922) - featuring a colourful image of a smi...

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1950s American Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Poster-Lee Kerry-chester-angleterre-pays De Galles, 1953
Original Vintage Poster-Lee Kerry-chester-angleterre-pays De Galles, 1953

Original Vintage Poster-Lee Kerry-chester-angleterre-pays De Galles, 1953

Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR

Original Vintage Poster-Lee Kerry-Chester-Angleterre-Pays De Galles, 1953 Poster for the ancient Roman walled city of Chester located near Wales on the River Dee showing the historical and medieval buildings within the wall boundary, including Chester cathedral and the towers and gates of the wall, a horse racing on Chester Racecourse (the oldest racecourse in England), a Roman Centurion, a Civil War soldier firing a canon, a fisherman and small town on the other side of the river linked by bridges, monks farming, the English flag...

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20th Century French Art Deco Posters

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1955 TWA Disneyland Original Vintage Poster
1955 TWA Disneyland Original Vintage Poster

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...

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1950s American Vintage Posters

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Linen, Paper

Leonetto Cappiello "Thermogene" Original Vintage Poster
Leonetto Cappiello "Thermogene" Original Vintage Poster

Leonetto Cappiello "Thermogene" Original Vintage Poster

By Leonetto Cappiello

Located in Linkebeek, BE

Leonetto Cappiello "Thermogene" Original Vintage Poster Vintage advertising poster - object of curiosity Measures : 75x2,5cm H:101cm Material : Paper - Plexi - Metal Frame Caption ...

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20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Posters

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Metal

Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi

Located in London, GB

Original US film poster for the 1983 Third Star Wars film. Staring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher. The Art work is Tim Reamer (dates unknown) This in near mint condition u...

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1980s American Vintage Posters

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Joan Miro / Christies Contemporary Lithograph "Bonjour Max Ernst" Art Poster
Joan Miro / Christies Contemporary Lithograph "Bonjour Max Ernst" Art Poster

Joan Miro / Christies Contemporary Lithograph "Bonjour Max Ernst" Art Poster

By Joan Miró, Christie's

Located in San Diego, CA

Highly collectible mid-century Joan Miro / Christies Contemporary lithograph art poster, circa 1980s. The poster, which is a reproduction of a "Bonjour Max Ernst" portfolio piece, is presented in a simple black metal frame and measures 22" x 28"; it is signed by Miro in the plate and is composed of a beautiful abstract image with vibrant and crisp colors and lettering. Sorry about the shadows and glare in the photos; the piece is in great shape and the background is a crisp white with no shadows or discoloration. #2677 Posters as an art form were invented by Jules Chéret in Paris in the 1860’s. Their proliferation and refinement were the result of advances in printing technology, a relaxation of laws regulating the press, and a booming demand for the advertisement of ‘modern’ products and of the Parisian lifestyle in the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914). In journals, books, theater programs...

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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Posters

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Paper

Savignac, Original Vintage Poster, Maurice Baquet, Cello, Rainbow, Actor, 1980
Savignac, Original Vintage Poster, Maurice Baquet, Cello, Rainbow, Actor, 1980

Savignac, Original Vintage Poster, Maurice Baquet, Cello, Rainbow, Actor, 1980

By Raymond Savignac

Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR

The Maurice Baquet poster was created by the French graphic designer Raymond Savignac in the 1980s. Artist: Raymond Savignac (1907-2002) Title : Maurice Baquet Date: circa 1980 Size...

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20th Century French Modern Posters

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Paper

Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

Located in London, GB

Original British lobby card for the 1948 Thriller Brighton Rock. This film was directed by John Boulting and starred Richard Attenborough, Hermonie Baddeley, William Hartnell. This ...

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1940s British Vintage Posters

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Paper

1982 Bally - Pink Shoes Original Vintage Poster
1982 Bally - Pink Shoes Original Vintage Poster

1982 Bally - Pink Shoes Original Vintage Poster

By Bernard Villemot

Located in Winchester, GB

One of the most iconic and sought after designs of the 20th Century, the collaborations between Bernard Villemot and Bally showcase the crossover between advertisement and fine art. ...

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1980s Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Film Poster, Mon Oncle with Jacques Tati 1959
Original Vintage Film Poster, Mon Oncle with Jacques Tati 1959

Original Vintage Film Poster, Mon Oncle with Jacques Tati 1959

By P. Etaix

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

Original vintage film poster, Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati 1959 A bumbling Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) loves his top-floor apartment in a France. ...

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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Poster Northumberland Holidays Rail Travel Map Golf Roman Wall
Original Antique Poster Northumberland Holidays Rail Travel Map Golf Roman Wall

Original Antique Poster Northumberland Holidays Rail Travel Map Golf Roman Wall

By Frank Henry Mason

Located in London, GB

Original antique train travel poster issued by NER North Eastern Railway - Northumberland for the Holidays Coast Dale & Borderland Ancient Castles & The Roman Wall - featuring a pictorial map illustration by the English artist Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965) depicting an aerial view over North East England with buildings, roads, rivers and hills and various places of interest including The Cheviots (the Cheviot Hills range of uplands on the Anglo-Scottish border...

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1920s British Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Africa Travel Advertising Poster Air Atlas Morocco Map Hainaut
Original Vintage Africa Travel Advertising Poster Air Atlas Morocco Map Hainaut

Original Vintage Africa Travel Advertising Poster Air Atlas Morocco Map Hainaut

Located in London, GB

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Le Maroc par Air Atlas / Morocco by Air Atlas - featuring a colourful pictorial design depicting a propeller plane flying above an illust...

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1940s Moroccan Vintage Posters

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Paper

1969 Bullitt Original Vintage Daybill Poster
1969 Bullitt Original Vintage Daybill Poster

1969 Bullitt Original Vintage Daybill Poster

Located in Winchester, GB

This rare and vibrant pink style Daybill poster for "Bullitt" depicts the iconic image of McQueen in the titular role and is a treasure from the mid-century. Released in 1968, Peter...

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1960s Australian Vintage Posters

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Paper

1969 Disneyland - Rainbow Caverns - Frontierland Original Vintage Poster
1969 Disneyland - Rainbow Caverns - Frontierland Original Vintage Poster

1969 Disneyland - Rainbow Caverns - Frontierland Original Vintage Poster

Located in Winchester, GB

Stunning & exceptionally rare attraction poster from 1969 promoting the Rainbow Caverns attraction in Frontierland at Disneyland. Opening in 1955 in Anaheim, California, Disneyland w...

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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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'E.T. The Extra Terrestrial' Original Vintage Japanese Movie Poster, 1982
'E.T. The Extra Terrestrial' Original Vintage Japanese Movie Poster, 1982

'E.T. The Extra Terrestrial' Original Vintage Japanese Movie Poster, 1982

Located in Devon, GB

Steven Spielberg's timeless tear jerking tale of a young boy's friendship with a stranded extraterrestrial was both widely critically acclaimed and enormously commercially successful...

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1980s Japanese Modern Vintage Posters

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Paper

L’Uomo che Sapeva Troppo (The Man Who Knew Too Much), 1956
L’Uomo che Sapeva Troppo (The Man Who Knew Too Much), 1956

L’Uomo che Sapeva Troppo (The Man Who Knew Too Much), 1956

Located in Roma, IT

Italian 2-Foglio (100 × 140 cm), Paramount. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Painted artwork by Alfredo Capitani, juxtaposing a dramatic Hitchcock ...

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1950s Italian Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster For The Irkutsk Football League In Siberia Russia Sport
Original Vintage Poster For The Irkutsk Football League In Siberia Russia Sport

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...

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1920s Russian Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Summer in Davos Switzerland Europe's Sun Terrace
Original Vintage Travel Poster Summer in Davos Switzerland Europe's Sun Terrace

Original Vintage Travel Poster Summer in Davos Switzerland Europe's Sun Terrace

By Willy Trapp

Located in London, GB

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Summer in Davos, Europe's Sun Terrace, Switzerland or Sommer in Davos Europas Sonnenterrasse Schweiz. Bright and colourful image of a t...

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1940s Swiss Vintage Posters

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Paper

King Kong R1970s French Grande Film Poster
King Kong R1970s French Grande Film Poster

King Kong R1970s French Grande Film Poster

Located in Bath, Somerset

The king of monsters at Grande scale. This French re-release poster for the original King Kong uses huge hand-painted lettering, jungle action and a wonderfully dramatic image of Kon...

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20th Century French Posters

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Paper

1980 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Original Vintage Poster
1980 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Original Vintage Poster

1980 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Original Vintage Poster

Located in Winchester, GB

Inspired by the late great Ian Curtis' struggles with mental illness and with his marriage, the era-defining single Love Will Tear Us Apart was released in 1980 as a standalone song....

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1980s British Vintage Posters

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Paper

Bath The Georgian City 1955 British Railways Travel Poster, Gordon Nicoll
Bath The Georgian City 1955 British Railways Travel Poster, Gordon Nicoll

Bath The Georgian City 1955 British Railways Travel Poster, Gordon Nicoll

Located in Bath, Somerset

This is Bath in full Georgian colour. Gordon Nicoll packs the 1955 British Railways poster with architecture, street life and a horse-drawn carriage, turning the city into a lively p...

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20th Century British Posters

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Paper

Cabaret 1973 Original Polish Film Poster, Wiktor Górka
Cabaret 1973 Original Polish Film Poster, Wiktor Górka

Cabaret 1973 Original Polish Film Poster, Wiktor Górka

By Wiktor Gorka

Located in Bath, Somerset

Arguably one of the most iconic Polish film posters. Bold, striking, confrontational and about as avant-garde a design as you could ever get. The end of the Second World War marked the dawn of a new period in the development of Polish poster art, which became known as the Polish School of Posters...

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20th Century Polish Posters

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Linen, Paper

Steve McQueen 'The Blob' Original Vintage Japanese B2 Movie Poster, 1965
Steve McQueen 'The Blob' Original Vintage Japanese B2 Movie Poster, 1965

Steve McQueen 'The Blob' Original Vintage Japanese B2 Movie Poster, 1965

Located in Devon, GB

A young Steve McQueen is pitched as the main event on this incredibly rare B2 poster for the first Japanese release of the cult drive-in era classic ‘The Blob’ in 1965, cashing in on the king of cool’s box office draw at the height of his popularity. A relative unknown only seven years prior, McQueen had not been pictured on anything but the theatrical lobby cards at the time of the original US release in 1958 and was credited as ‘Steven McQueen.’ Perfectly epitomising the schlock sci-fi B movie, ‘The Blob’ starred a 28-year old McQueen in his first leading role as a rebel teen who discovers the gelatinous alien invader wreaking havoc throughout his small Pennsylvania community and tries to warn the sceptical townspeople before it is too late. Distributed by Paramount as the B movie to ‘I Married a Monster...

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1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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Paper

YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL - DARLEY ABBEY Original Vintage British Travel Poster
YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL - DARLEY ABBEY Original Vintage British Travel Poster

YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL - DARLEY ABBEY Original Vintage British Travel Poster

Located in Chicago, IL

TO VISIT BRITAIN'S LANDMARKS - YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL FOLLY HOUSES, DARLEY ABBEY Rare authentic original vintage British travel and tourism poster Artist: Rowland Suddaby Condition...

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1930s Vintage Posters

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Richard Ranft, Original Vintage Poster, Salon des Cent, Exhibition, Paris, 1894
Richard Ranft, Original Vintage Poster, Salon des Cent, Exhibition, Paris, 1894

Richard Ranft, Original Vintage Poster, Salon des Cent, Exhibition, Paris, 1894

By Richard Ranft 1

Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR

Original Vintage Poster-Richard Ranft-Salon des Cent-The Feather, 1894 Poster for the 6th edition of the Salon des Cent in November 1894. A woman lying on a sofa is reading La Plume newspaper. The interior decorated with wallpaper with a white mice pattern is not present in this proof. The Salon des Cent (also known as "Salon de la Plume") is an exhibition of French art designed by Léon Deschamps, launched in Paris in February 1894 in the lobby of the journal La Plume. The idea was to exhibit and sell prints...

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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters

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Philippe Sommer, Original Wine Poster, Saint Emilion, Chateau Lapeyre, 1995
Philippe Sommer, Original Wine Poster, Saint Emilion, Chateau Lapeyre, 1995

Philippe Sommer, Original Wine Poster, Saint Emilion, Chateau Lapeyre, 1995

By Philippe Sommer

Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR

Original Poster-Philippe Sommer-Saint Emilion-Chateau Lapeyre-Wine, 1995 Poster to promote the french wine St Emilion – Chateau Lapeyre. This poster of Châ...

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20th Century French Modern Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Oxford GWR Railway Poster Oxford University Church Classic Cars
Original Vintage Oxford GWR Railway Poster Oxford University Church Classic Cars

Original Vintage Oxford GWR Railway Poster Oxford University Church Classic Cars

Located in London, GB

Original vintage railway poster published by GWR Great Western Railway featuring a stunning sketch illustration by Fred Taylor (1875-1963) of the Oxford University Church of St Mary ...

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1920s British Vintage Posters

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Leonetto Cappiello, Original Vintage Poster for Vodka Relsky from 1911, Cossack
Leonetto Cappiello, Original Vintage Poster for Vodka Relsky from 1911, Cossack

Leonetto Cappiello, Original Vintage Poster for Vodka Relsky from 1911, Cossack

By Leonetto Cappiello

Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR

Original Vintage Poster for Vodka Relsy by Leonetto Cappiello dating from 1911. Leonetto Cappiello (1875 - 1942), the artist, was born in Livorno, Italy, and spent most of his adult life in Paris where he became one of the most prolific poster artists of all time (he created more than 500 different poster designs for many of the most famous brands of the period). This poster depicts an eccentric red haired and bearded Russian Cossack wearing a Chapka who symbolizes a Russian bon vivant who loves Caviar and Vodka...

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20th Century French Art Nouveau Posters

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Lawrence of Arabia 1962 French Grande Style B Film Poster, Georges Kerfyser
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 French Grande Style B Film Poster, Georges Kerfyser

Lawrence of Arabia 1962 French Grande Style B Film Poster, Georges Kerfyser

Located in Bath, Somerset

David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia deserves a poster with scale, and this French Grande certainly delivers. Georges Kerfyser builds the design around blazing desert reds, sweeping caval...

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20th Century French Posters

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Linen, Paper

Top Gun
Top Gun

Top Gun

$1,617

Top Gun

Located in London, GB

Original US film poster for the 1986 Blockbuster Top Gun starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Tim Robbins, Val Kilmer and Michael Ironside. This film was d...

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1980s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

Antique and Vintage Posters

Add a welcome personal touch to your space and tie your distinctive interior scheme together by introducing antique and vintage posters to any and every room of your home.

In the late 19th century, following the advent of text-heavy posters printed from woodblocks for use in taverns and shop windows, hand-drawn poster art had become commonplace in regions such as France, England and the United States. Well-known illustrators were commissioned to produce decorative posters to advertise political campaigns, theatrical events, books, household goods and other items. Early poster artists used a printmaking technique called lithography, which sees drawings or paintings created on a stone (or metal) surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The image is eventually affixed to the surface by means of a chemical reaction, and ink adheres to certain sections of the surface while non–image areas are made to repel the ink.

If you wanted a color lithograph in the early days, the number of stones prepared had to match the number of colors you commissioned for the poster. French painter Jules Chéret, widely known as the father of the modern poster, designed some of history's most popular lithographic posters that featured color. Today, Chéret’s art is highly collectible, along with original works by Czech painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha, whose posters advertising theatrical productions helped define Art Nouveau.

Over time, poster artists transitioned to more advanced techniques. Using silkscreens, woodblocks and photolithography, painters and illustrators printed larger quantities at a faster rate.

If you’ve finally tracked down that vintage movie poster, mid-century modern promotional travel poster or other work and you’re looking to find out if it is valuable, distinguishing between an original poster and a reproduction can be complicated. A professional appraiser can work with you on factors such as rarity, assessing the physical condition of your poster and authenticating your piece. For now, take care of your new acquisition because conserving posters is essential in helping them retain their value. A practical conservation method is to have the work mounted on archival, acid-free paper and thin artist’s canvas, then enclosing it in a sturdy frame. (And here is a primer on how to hang wall art, be it arranged gallery-style or otherwise.)

On 1stDibs, find all kinds of posters for your home today.