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Posters For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1890s
3 Original Vintage PLM Railway Travel Posters Vers Le Mont Blanc Day Night Dusk
By Geo Dorival
Located in London, GB
Set of three original vintage travel advertising posters published by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway company and the TMB Mont Blanc Tramway for Mont Blanc (the highest mountain in Europe), via St Gervais...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Baby Mine / Barnet-Mitt
Located in London, GB
Incredibly rare original Swedish film poster for 1917 silent comedy.
This one hundred and seven year old film poster is exceptionally rare, and has only surfaced a few times.
This ea...
Category
1910s Swedish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Steam Ship Cruise Travel Poster Cie Gle Transatlantique Espagne
Located in London, GB
Original vintage steam ship cruise travel poster for Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (founded 1861) Cuba Mexico Estados Unidos Vapores Correos Franceses Vapores Lafayette Espagne ...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Art Nouveau Poster GSWRailway Paris In London 1902 Imre Kiralfy
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster - Great Southern & Western Railway (GS&WR) - Paris in London - Imre Kiralfy Director General - Earls Court - May to October 1902. Stunning Art Nouveau style i...
Category
Early 1900s British Art Nouveau Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover, August 1936
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a fabulous original Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover, August 1936.
The cover of Fortune Magazine for August 1936, framed a...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Tanger Morocco Chemins De Fer Du Midi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster advertising the Chemins de Fer du Midi railway company to Tanger / Tangier in Morocco featuring a colourful illustration of a lady and man in tra...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Train Travel Poster Normandy Brittany French Western Railway
Located in London, GB
Original antique train travel poster for Normandy and Brittany by Western Railway - Normandie & Bretagne par Chemin de Fer de l'Ouest - featuring a...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Drink Advertising Poster Vilajuiga Mineral Water Cappiello Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique drink advertising poster for bottled mineral water from Vilajuiga Spain proclaiming its medicinal health benefits - Agua de Vilajuiga / ...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1928 Campari Viola, Fortunato Depero Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Iconic Italian liqueur brand Campari collaborated with Futurist artist Fortunato Depero many times, beginning their relationship in 1924.
Campari was formed in 1860 by Gaspare Cam...
Category
1920s Italian Futurist Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Italian WWI War Bond Poster by G. Capranesi (1852 - 1925)
By G. Capranesi
Located in Hanover, MA
Italian World War I Poster "Sottoscrivete Al Prestito" by artist G. Capranesi. Printed 1917 by Del'Istituto Itlaiano D'Arti Grafiche-Bergamo, 54...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Beaux Arts Posters
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Leon Houard Fabrique Nationale Motorcycles
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Fabrique Nationale Motorcycles featuring an Art Deco design by the Italian artist Marcello Nizzoli (1887-1969) depicting a motorbike rider as ...
Category
1920s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Tamagno, Original Art Nouveau Poster, Rooster, Gaz, Charcoal, Coke, Chimney 1910
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Poster by Fransisco Tamagno created around 1910 for the Montpellier Gas Company.
Artist: Fransisco Tamagno (1862-1933)
Title: Cie du Gaz de Montpellier (before the letter)
Date: ci...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Posters
Materials
Paper
Vinci, Original Air France Poster, Paris Stockholm, Brussels, Copenhagen, 1935
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Air France poster created by Vinci in 1935 to promote tourism between Paris and Northern Europe.
Artist: Vinci
Title: Air France – Paris - Stockhol...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Southern Railway Travel Poster Featuring Windsor Castle England
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Windsor Castle – Frequent Trains to Windsor from London (Waterloo) and other stations by Southern Railway. Great image featuring a colo...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Early 20th c. England and Wales Perrier Motor Map c.1910
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Large bright vivid color-printed Perrier Motor Map, featuring the motoring roads of England and Wales. Segmented in two sections and mounted to original linen back, folded int...
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Vintage Boss Hog Limited Edition Signed Coop Concert Poster #362/600
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This vintge limited edition concert poster was done by Coop of the United States in approximately 1990 in a modern cartoon style. The poster is likely done by silkscreen on paper and...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motivation Poster Arbeitszeit Not During Work Hours Doval Quote
Located in London, GB
Original vintage German motivational workplace poster issued by the Parker-Holladay company in Berlin featuring an illustration of a worker reading the sports pages of a newspaper in...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Working Steadily, " Very Rare Art Deco Poster w/ Semi-Nude Steel Worker, 1920s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Highly rare and full of rich, dramatic color, this poster depicting three steelworkers, their bodies rosy from the glow of molten steel at their fingertips, was issued by the National Service...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Large University Anatomical Chart “Ligamnets” by Turner
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Large University Anatomical chart “Ligamnets” by Turner
W&A K Johnston’s Charts of Anatomy and Physiology By Dr William Turner, Professor of Anatomy University of Edinburgh/A J Nystrom & Co US Agents Chicago
This is Plate 2, Ligaments, by Turner, it is large lithograph set...
Category
Early 20th Century International Style Posters
Materials
Linen
Original Vintage Travel Poster Le Mont Revard Grand Hotel PLM Roger Broders
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Le Mont Revard Grand Hotel PLM 1550m d'Altitude issued by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway featuring a stunning design by the notable French...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Dance Poster for the Munich Fasching Carnival at the Cherubin
By Viktor O. Stolz
Located in London, GB
Original vintage German advertising poster for the Munich Fasching Lent Carnival at the Cherubin on 7-8 January 1928 featuring a colourful illustrat...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Antique Anatomical Chart Architecture of the Human Anatomy by E. Hoelemann
Located in Atlanta, GA
A great antique anatomical chart depicting the different sense organs. the chart is sheet number VI as part of the architecture of human anato...
Category
Early 1900s Scandinavian Modern Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Fundraising Poster French Sailors Fund France Marins Francais
Located in London, GB
Original antique fundraising poster commemorating French sailors and promoting donations - Donnes tous a l'oeuvre du souvenir de la France a ses Marins / Everyone give to the fund in...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Garretto, Original Air France Poster, Fleche d'Orient, Pegasus Europe Paris 1936
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Air France poster, Fleche d’Orient produced by Paolo-Frederico Garretto in 1936.
Artist: Paolo-Federico Garretto (1903-1989)
Title: Air France – Flèche d'Orient
Date: 1936
Size: 11...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Mich, Original Vintage Poster, Circuit Francais Peugeot, Bike Race, Lion, 1911
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for Circuit Francais Peugeot created by Mich in 1911.
Artist: Mich (1881-1923)
Title: Circuit Français Peugeot
Date: 1911
Size: 63 x 46.9 in. / 160 x 11...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau 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
Materials
Paper
Hallelujah
Located in London, GB
Original US Trade advertisement for the 1929 pre-Code Musical Hallelujah directed by King Vidor and starring Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney and William Fountaine.
The wonderful...
Category
1920s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "May Milton" Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Executed with a Degas-like sight-line and with a clear influence of the Japanese woodblock prints that so fascinated him, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created this incredible lithograph, composed of deep contrasts at the behest of the performer whose name appears on the print, "May Milton...
Category
1890s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Underground Poster Shop By Underground Off Peak Travel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Underground poster by the notable illustrator and commercial artist Austin Cooper (1890-1964) to promote off peak travel on the Tube featuring a colourful image of a smiling golly doll with the Underground logo and text in stylised lettering on the side and below - Shop by Underground but shop by Underground between 10 & 4. Published by Sanders Phillips and Co...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover, October 1937
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a fabulous original Art Deco Fortune Magazine cover, October 1937.
The cover of Fortune Magazine for October 1937, framed...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Bike Advertising Poster Omega Cycles Dorfinant Bicycle Design
By Dorfi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage bike advertising poster for Omega Cycles featuring scenic artwork by Dorfi (Albert Dorfinant; 1881-1976) depicting a man smoking a pipe a...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vinci, Original Air France Poster, Woman World Earth Travel Flags, Art Deco 1937
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Air France poster from 1937 produced by Vinci to promote global tourism by air.
Artist: Vinci
Title: Air France – Réseau Aérien Mondial
Date: 1935
Size: 23.6 x 39.2 in. / 60 x 99.6...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Rare Antique Advertising Poster Georges Irat Automobiles Art Deco Car
Located in London, GB
Rare early original antique advertising poster for a French car manufacturer Georges Irat (1921-1953) featuring a stylised Art Deco design depicting a Class...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique War Poster Emprunt National Loan WWI Algeria Tunisia Troop Ship
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One poster - For the Return of Troops Subscribe to the 4th National loan land credit of Algeria and Tunisia / Pour le Retour Souscrivez 4e Emprunt National...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Workplace Motivation Poster Out In Front Leaders Speed Boat
Located in London, GB
Original vintage workplace motivational poster - Out In Front Trailers lose what leaders win To get ahead be ahead - dynamic design featuring men racing speed boats across blue and g...
Category
1920s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Chinese Deco Advertisement Poster, c. 1930
Located in Chicago, IL
This commercial advertisement poster from 1930s Shanghai melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. Large companies often presented posters such as this to their clients to commemorate the Chinese New Year. This poster depicts a young woman luxuriously...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Maximilian Cafe Restaurant Afternoon Tea Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster advertising elegant afternoon tea at the Maximilian cafe restaurant with a dance band playing music in the afternoons and evenings - und dann ins Cafe Wein Re...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Deco Style Poster Aerotransport Swedish Airlines VI Flyver
By Ernst Mentze
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster: A.B. Aerotransport Swedish Air-Lines VI Flyver. Great image by Ernst Mentze showing an elegant lady wearing a f...
Category
1920s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Chinese Fertilizer Advertisement Poster
Located in Chicago, IL
Influenced by Western advertising, commercial posters featuring beautiful women in modern settings gained popularity in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Posters like this one came to symbolize prosperity and fortune and were often purchased by Chinese consumers to decorate their homes. This 1930s advertisement...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Wall Chart Lithograph Hydra by Paul Pfurtscheller for Martinus Nijhoff
Located in Oakville, CT
Antique educational wall chart lithograph - "Hydroza, Hydromedusae, Hydra" by Paul Pfurtscheller for Martinus Nijhoff. Wooden dowel measures 53" in...
Category
Early 20th Century European Posters
Materials
Wood, Paper, Linen
Original Antique Advertising Poster Mercerisin Silk Care Soap Laundry Design Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Mercerisin cleaning soap featuring a lady holding a packet of Mercerisin with her laundry in a washing bowl, the bold text in red and black re...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Subscribe 6th War Bond WWI Vienna Commercial Bank
Located in London, GB
Original Vintage World War One war bond poster - Subscribe to the 6th war loan - everyone should do their bit towards the good end! / Zeichnet die Sechste Kriegsanleihe Ein Jeder Lei...
Category
1910s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Political Propaganda Poster Industrial Prosperity Vote Labour
Located in London, GB
Original vintage political propaganda poster for the 1929 United Kingdom general election - Secure Industrial Prosperity Vote Labour - featuring artwork by the British graphic design...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Circus Advertising Poster Cycling The Air Bros Wichmann Design
Located in London, GB
Original antique circus advertising poster - Cycling The Air of the Bros. Wichmann - featuring a colourful design depicting two men performing tricks on...
Category
1890s German Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Political Propaganda Poster Cheapjack Ramsay MacDonald Dope
Located in London, GB
Original vintage political propaganda poster - The Cheapjack! Walk up, Walk up, Ladies & Gentlemen! Try my Marvellous Socialist Cure-all for Bad trade Swollen unemployment Broken time Agricultural depression Removes superfluous cash while you wait Luxuriant growth of new taxes guaranteed! - featuring a caricature image of Ramsay MacDonald portrayed as a snake oil...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Uricure Medicine Leonetto Cappiello Design
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster by the renowned poster artist Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942) for Uricure featuring a great design depicting a smiling e...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Save Britain's Coal Industry Vote Labour Party Elections
Located in London, GB
Original vintage political election poster - Save Britain's Coal Industry Vote Labour - featuring dynamic artwork by the British graphic designer and commercial poster artist Verney L. Danvers (Verney Lionel Danby Danvers; 1895-1973) depicting an industrial image of a miner working with a pick axe...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
French Art Deco Advertising Poster, By Ribet
Located in Norwood, NJ
Shopping for shoes in Paris with the family? Gilt framed antique French Art Deco advertising poster, "La Premiere Marque Du Monde", Chaussu...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Original French Poster, 'La Comete Liquor' c. 1920
By Joseph Hémard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Art Deco Original French Poster, 'La Comete Liquor' c. 1920
ARTIST
Joseph Hémard
CONDITION
Good
FORMAT
Linen Backed
DIMENSIONS
61 x 80 cm
YEAR
c. 1920
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover, December 1938
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a fabulous original Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover, December 1938.
The cover of Fortune Magazine for December 1938, fram...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Transport Poster By Tram To Hampton Court Royal Palace
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster promoting travel By Tram to Hampton Court featuring a colourful view from the gardens towards the historical royal palace depicting people enjoying their visit with flowers on both sides of a statue framed by trees, the bold title against the green grass background below. Printed by the Dangerfield Printing Co...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Teatre Intim Adria Gual Catalan Theatre
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the Barcelona theatre company - Teatre Intim Direccio Adria Gual Hiverno 1899 Tres Sessions d'Abono Al Lirich demaninse prospectes - featuring...
Category
1890s Spanish Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Election Poster Vote German Democratic DDP Inflation
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda election poster - Vote German Democratic Against new inflation for imperial unity and republic separation from our enemi...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster The World Of Dress Fashion London Paris Vienna New York
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster for The World of Dress edited by Mrs Aria Fashions of London Paris Vienna and New York New Year's number now ready Price 6d. Great design featuring an elegant...
Category
1890s British Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Lithograph Poster Hautier Automobile Ernest Montaut Car Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique lithograph poster for the French car manufacturer Hautier (1899-1905): Hautier Ebrayage Metallique Progressif Automobiles Ca...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover October 1936
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a fabulous original Art Deco Fortune magazine cover October 1936.
The cover of Fortune Magazine for October 1936, framed ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Drink Poster Cognac Ducauze Fama A Base De Calidad Fame Quality
Located in London, GB
Original antique drink advertising poster for Cognac Ducauze Fama A Base De Calidad / Fame Based On Quality featuring a vibrant and fun design of a smiling man in pirate or musketeer...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War One Recruitment Poster WWI It's Our Flag Fight for It
Located in London, GB
Original antique British world war One recruitment poster featuring a painting of the Union Jack flag inside a blue frame and green border, t...
Category
1910s British 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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