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Posters For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1920s
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Guinness Chestnut Tree Irish Dry Stout Beer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Guinness poster - Under the spreading chestnut tree A glass of Guinness stood. The smith, a mightier man is he His Guinness d...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Moonlight and Pretzels / Sensation Pa Broadway
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare original Swedish film poster for the 1933 Musical romance film Moonlight and Pretzels
This film starred Leo Carrillo and Mary Brian and was directed by Karl Freu...
Category
1930s Swedish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
SS. COTE D'AZUR 1931 Chemin de Fer du Nord Travel Poster Litho by Adolphe Mouron
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is a large-scale French Travel Lithograph Poster, designed by Graphic Designer Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron under his well-known pseudonym ‚...
Category
1930s French Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Shell British Landmarks London Temple
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster issued by Shell - To Visit Britain's Landmarks You Can Be Sure Of Shell - featuring a view of the historic Temple Bar gate by the English p...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Deco Poster Advertising the French Bicycle Company Automoto
By Maurice Lauro
Located in London, GB
Original vintage adverting poster for the French manufacturer of bicycles automoto featuring a stunning Art Deco style artwork by Maurice Lauro (...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Bray County Wicklow Ireland Better Holidays
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster - Bray for Better Holidays See Ireland First - featuring people enjoying a walk along the seafront promenade and beach in the resort town of Bray in County Wicklow Ireland...
Category
1930s Irish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Golf In Deutschland Germany Sport Travel Golfer Artwork
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport travel poster - Golf in Deutschland - featuring stunning artwork by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) of a golfer in full swing on ...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Deco Travel Poster Nice PLM Railway Paris Lyon Mediterranee
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Art Deco travel poster issued by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway for Nice featuring stunning artwork depicting an elegant lady relaxing on a balcony with a v...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
French Art Deco Chimney Sweep Lithograph Poster
Located in Atlanta, GA
French Art Deco chimney sweep lithograph poster, France or Brussels, circa 1930s. It measures an impressive 63" height x 48" width. It has been professio...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Antique Propaganda Election Poster German Democratic Party Train List 6
Located in London, GB
Original antique propaganda election poster for the German Democratic Party / Deutsche Demokratische Partei - featuring a dynamic design depicting a steam train travelling at speed o...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Warszawa Warsaw Mermaid Fountain Saxon Palace Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Warszawa Varsovie Warschau Warsaw Pologne Polen Poland - featuring historical architectural landmarks in the Saxon Garden / Ogrod Saski public park i...
Category
1930s Polish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster Opening Time Is Guinness Time Toucan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Guinness advertising poster - Opening Time is Guinness Time - featuring an iconic design depicting the trademark smiling ...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Theatre Festival Moscow 1935 Intourist N Zhukov
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster to promote the Moscow Theatre Festival 1-10 September 1935 issued by the Soviet state travel company Intourist for display in travel agencies and USSR ...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Large Vintage Hunt's 3 Ring Circus Date Poster 28" x 42", circa 1920's
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Hunt's Three Ring Circus Date Poster
28" x 41 5/8"
September 11th, circa 1920's
"poster / circus is from the northeast"
"large original circus date poster"
"in very good vintage as...
Category
1920s American American Classical Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Down With Guinness Then You'll Feel Better Beer Drink Ad
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster featuring text in bold red and black letters framed by a green line border: Down With Guinness! - then you'll feel better. One of the world'...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original French Lithographic Theatre Poster, 'Les Grandes Manoeuvres'
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original French Lithographic Theatre Poster, 'Les Grandes Manoeuvres'
This is an original poster which has been linen backed for preservation, the overall condition is very good.
...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937.
This piece features Tenggren art.
This piece would have been ...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Brain Antique Anatomical Plate by Lehrmittelverlag Hageman Düsseldorf 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
Anatomical didactic plate of the 1930s on canvas paper depicting the brain, the spinal column and the sense organs, mounted on two black painted wooden sticks. Signed Lehrmittelverla...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Aeromaritime West Coast Africa Albert Brenet
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Aeromaritime - to the West coast of Africa, from Dakar in Senegal to Pointe Noire - Design by Albert Brenet (1903-2005) features an African Tribesm...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1930s Italian antique Sketch of a Campaign to Fight Tuberculosis
Located in Milan, IT
Sketch of a futurist poster, 1930’s, campaign against tuberculosis with united strength 10 cents for poor sicks with tuberculosis, for the national campaign to inform people about th...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Aperitif Liqueur Drink Advertising Poster Balsam Sledge Belgium
Located in London, GB
Original antique aperitif liqueur drink advertising poster for Balsam featuring great artwork of a happy couple wearing warm winter clothes smiling at the viewer whilst sledging down...
Category
1920s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Train Travel Poster Scotland By LMS The Trossachs Loch
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London, Midland and Scottish railway train travel poster - Scotland by LMS The Best Way to The Trossachs - featuring a painting by Reginald Green (1884-1971) depicti...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Jaeger For Christmas British Fashion Brand
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Jaeger for Christmas - featuring an elegantly dressed lady in a purple trouser suit with a red scarf and red sandals sitting by a window and hol...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Recruitment Poster Territorial Army For England And Freedom UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage military recruitment propaganda poster - For England and Freedom! Join the Territorial Army - featuring a colourful design by the painter Lance Cattermole (1898-1992...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Suisse Ligne Electrifiee Du Gothard Electric Rail
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel advertising poster - Switzerland The St. Gothard Electric Railway / Suisse Ligne Electrifiee Du Gothard - featuring scenic artwork by Daniele Buzzi (b. 1890) ...
Category
1920s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Messageries Maritimes Far East Shipping English
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel to Asia poster - Visit the Far East by Messageries Maritimes - featuring artwork by Bernard Lachevre (1885-1950) of an ocean liner at night with the on...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Sport Poster Physical Education Day Leningrad USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet sport poster - Все на праздник физкультуры Ленинградской Области - All to the Leningrad Region Festival of Physical Education held on 22 to 29 July 1928 - fea...
Category
1920s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Gone with the Wind
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the landmark, 1939 film starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood. Original posters on this legendary t...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage German Railways Travel Poster Germany Black Forest Schwarzwald
Located in London, GB
Original vintage German Railways travel poster featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the German artist Wilhelm 'Willy' Dzubas (b. 1887) depicting a steam train running along a high...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Aviation Festival Henry Farman Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Mourmelon Le Grand 2 Juillet 1939 Inauguration du Monument Henry Farman Grande Fete Aerienne Toute l'Aviation Francaise a la Honneur pour le Pre...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Road Safety Poster By Breaking Traffic Laws You Risk Your Life
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Russian avant-garde road safety poster designed by V. Klimashin. Amazingly dynamic image of a careless tram rider jumping off in fr...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Air France Airways In All Skies Roger De Valerio
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Dans Tous Les Ciels Air France / In All Skies - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Roger de Valerio (1886-1951) depicting a propeller plane flyi...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Film Poster Fire Ogon Evenki People Mark Donskoy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet film poster for a 1931 black and white drama movie directed by Mark Donskoy - Fire / Огонь - about the fight against the remnants of the patriarchal-clan syst...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Lavocat Energy Products Rugby Strength Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport themed advertising poster - Strength Energy by Lavocat Products irradiated food / Force Energie par les Produits Lavocat aliments irradies - featuring dynamic ...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique London Underground Poster Hyde Park Stage Of London Life Bawden
By Edward Bawden
Located in London, GB
Original antique London Underground poster for Hyde Park The Stage of London Life Free Orators, Free Flower Shows, Free Bands, Free Air, Free Society featuring artwork by the English...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Italian Medical Futurist Sketch of a Poster of a Campaing to Fight Tuberculosis
Located in Milan, IT
Sketch for a Futurist poster, 1930s, "National Campaign against tuberculosis," made using a mixed technique of pastel and watercolor for the Italian National Campaign to fight tuberc...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Uzbek Film Poster Bread From Stones Constructivism USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet film poster for a black and white silent film directed by Ignatov - Bread from Stones / Хлеб из камней (Khleb iz kamnej) / Toshlardan Olingan Non - featuring ...
Category
1920s Uzbek Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Drink Advertising Poster Cognac Quevedo Alcohol Cat Spain VO
Located in London, GB
Original antique drink advertising poster for Quevedo Cognac Espanol featuring a fun illustration of dapper cat in a smart red suit and red and white polka dot tie winking at the vie...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Train Travel Poster Canadian National Railways Steam Locomotive
Located in London, GB
Original antique train travel advertising poster - Canadian National Railways A great railway in a great land - featuring a Canadian National 6122 steam loc...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Transport Poster At London's Service Chalfont St Giles
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster - At London's Service - featuring colourful artwork by Walter E. Spradbery (1889-1969) of the historic village of Chalfont St Giles...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Cooking Event Advertising Poster Culinary Arts Exhibition Chef
Located in London, GB
Original antique cooking event advertising poster - Austellung fur Kochskunst und Verwandte Gewerbe Dresden 1922 / Exhibition for Culinary Arts and Related Trades 25 to 18 March - fe...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Travel Poster Winter In The USSR Intourist Skiing Zhukov
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet travel poster by Intourist - Winter in the USSR - featuring an illustration by the notable artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973) of skiers skiing down a slope at ...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Beware Of Spies Achtung Spione Germany WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda poster - Beware of spies be careful when talking! / Achtung Spione Vorsicht bei Gesprachen! - featuring an illustration of two soldiers talking over a bee...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster USSR Voyage Into A New World Intourist
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise ship travel poster designed by the notable Soviet artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973) featuring a great image of an ocean liner sailing into the distance with t...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Broadway Melody
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish film poster for The Broadway Melody 1929.
This film was directed by Harry Beaumont. It tells the story of two Vaudeville sisters trying to get a break on Broadway. This was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first musical, which won them an Oscar for Best Film.
This beautiful Swedish poster...
Category
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Der Mittag Uberall Newspaper Electricity Aviation Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage newspaper advertising poster for Der Mittag Uberall featuring an Art Deco design depicting the figure of a man against a blue shaded sky background with crossed elec...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique North Africa Travel Poster Meknes Morocco Bab Mansour Brondy
Located in London, GB
Original antique North Africa travel poster for Meknes Ancient Residence Of The Sultans Of Morocco / Antique Residence Des Sultans Du Maroc featuring artwork by Matteo Brondy (1866-1...
Category
1920s Algerian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Rodi Rhodes Aphrodite ENIT Greece Erberto Carboni
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Rhodes / Rodi issued by the Italian State Travel Agency ENIT featuring a design by Erberto Carboni (1899-1984) depicting a photo of the ancient Aph...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Transport Poster Museums Kensington Map Fred Taylor Art
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster - the Museums Kensington - featuring detailed artwork by Fred Taylor (1875-1963) depicting an aerial map view of the V&A Victoria and Albert Museum (founded 1852), the Natural History Museum (founded 1881) and the Science Museum (founded 1857) located along Exhibition Road leading from South Kensington towards the Royal Albert Hall (opened 1871) and the Albert Memorial (opened 1872) in Hyde Park surrounded by trees, the title text between two London Transport roundels below. Printed by The Dangerfield Printing Co...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Jugoslavia Putnik Beograd Tourism Yugoslavia Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Putnik Jugoslavia / Yugoslavia featuring a stunning view of the historic buildings over the blue sea with hills in the distance and plants in the f...
Category
1930s Macedonian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Jura Pontarlier Roger Broders PLM Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Jura Environs De Pontarlier / Surroundings of Pontarlier - issued by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway featuring a stunning design by the notab...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Vins De France Sante Gaiete Esperance French Wine Cheer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Vins de France Sante Gaiete Esperance / Wines of France Health Cheerfulness Hope featuring great artwork b...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage PLM Railway Travel Poster Allevard Les Bains Thermal Spa Alps
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Allevard Les Bains Station Thermale Centre D'Excursions / Thermal Spa Excursions Centre issued by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway featuring colourful artwork by Jean Julien...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Empire Produce From Home And Overseas EMB
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board to encourage the buying of British goods to help the economy following the Great Depression in America - Buy ...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
I'm No Angel
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 19343 Musical comedy romance I'm No Angel.
This film starred May West, Cary Grant and Gregory Ratoff and was directed by Wesle...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Spanish Civil War Poster Cnt Hail Heroes Arturo Ballester
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Spanish Civil War propaganda poster - C.N.T Loor a los Heroes! / CNT Hail to the Heroes! Dynamic design by the Spanish artist Arturo Ballester Marco (1892-1981) depi...
Category
1930s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Brescia ENIT Palazzo Broletto Lombardy Italy
By Vincenzo Alicandri
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Brescia issued by the Italian Tourism Board ENIT featuring a flock of birds flying around the stone tower of the histori...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
G-Men
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1935 Gangster film G-Men.
This film starred James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay and Ann Dvorak and was directed by William Keighl...
Category
1930s 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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