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Period: Mid-20th Century
Period: 1950s
Period: 1940s
The Life of a Forgotten Magicians
Located in London, GB
The Life of a Forgotten Magicians
We are proud to offer a unique collection of one of London’s most unquestionably entertaining magicians known as Bernard and Ms Radar. A fascinating collection of 1940s-1960s items relating to the telepathic magic act 'Bernard and Miss Radar', a mind reading husband and wife duo, who extensively toured British theatres performing their telepathy based act and who were apparently the recipients of the 'World Convention of Magicians Award', which they received at the Magic Circle Convention in London in 1955. The collection comprises the basis for their act; 2 large handmade jigsaw puzzles, a “Radar” hat, top hat and other associated items with which they performed. There is also a large quantity (over 1000) of publicity photographs, theatre contracts, Magic Circle programmes, scrapbooks and other ephemera relating to their career, plus approximately fifteen original 1940s and 1950s theatre and other posters and several hand bills and flyers, all including Bernard and Miss Radar on the billing, along with other variety acts of the period. Some of the theatre posters included are; The Hippodrome, Eastbourne, Arcadia Theatre, Skegness, Commodore, Ryde, The Knightstone, Weston-Super-Mare and The Palace Theatre, Reading, which now all been framed to preserve them for display.
Dimensions in inches: (Poster sizes) H 32” x W 22” x D 2”
Origin: England
Condition: Aged through wear and tear is present across all the item, some fading across the posters however they are not torn or damp. Some of the hand painted items also show aged wear and light discolouration. Please take note that these items are over 70 years old and would have been used as part of this magician’s act, therefore its safe to say these items all show age, however, are very well preserved. Please review all the photos and propose questions were unsure of the condition to avoid any disappointment.
Over 1000 artifacts - most not pictured due to volume of items. Postage cost is high due to the weight (30kg) and volume of items in this lot, 10 posts mounted, 1 full box of archived material, top hat box...
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1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Grain Farmer Government Bread USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - First Bread Goes to the Government! - featuring a great image of a farmer holding a rope leading his horse drawn cart and sitting on the l...
Category
1940s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Film Poster One Million Years BC (French Release) Raquel Welch
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the French release of the fantasy adventure film One Million Years B.C. / Un Million D'Annees Avant J.C. set in a p...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Winter Sport Poster - Ice Skating For Fitness And Health
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet sport propaganda poster promoting ice skating for good health and physical exercise - On your skates! Great illustration showing a family ice skating, the smi...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Support The Legacy Of Our Fallen Navy Men WWII Dutch
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Support the legacy of our fallen Navy men / Steunt de nagelaten betrekkingen van onze gesneuvelde Marinemannen - featuring dramatic artwork by...
Category
1940s Dutch Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Hamburg Atlantic Line Hanseatic USA Cruise Ship
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel advertising poster for Hamburg Atlantic Line / Hamburg Atlantik Linie featuring an illustration of people as colourful silhouettes waving to and looking up at a ship named Hanseatic with the text in German below - das Schiff der guten Laune nach USA / the ship of good spirits to the USA. Hamburg Atlantik Linie (1958-1973; 1991-1997) operated ocean liner and cruise ship services from Hamburg Germany to New York America; the company changed its name to German Atlantic Line / Deutsche Atlantik Linie in 1966 and closed down in 1973; it was reestablished as Hanseatic Tours in 1991 then merged into Hapag-Lloyd Cruises in 1997. Launched in 1930 for Canadian Pacific Steamships as the RMS Empress of Japan and renamed RMS Empress of Scotland...
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1960s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Careless Talk Costs Lives No Harm Hitler Fougasse
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965), from the popular iconic Careless Talk...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
For A Few Dollars More (1967)
Located in London, GB
For A Few Dollars More (1967)
Original British Quad (30 X 40 Inches)
By far the rarest of the Clint Eastwood Man with No Name trilogy in the British Quad format, For a Few Dollars M...
Category
1960s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1960 Air France - Europe Hand Signed Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
With fabulous artwork from French painter Jacques Nathan Garamond, this poster promoting Air France routes to Europe was created in 1960. Air F...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Britain Is Pledged To Smash Japan Military War Tank
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Britain is Pledged to Smash Japan - featuring an image of a tank charging over a muddy hill and flying the Union Jack flag against the blue sk...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1968 Taj Mahal - Avalon Ballroom Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by the concert poster artists Paul Kagan and David Smith this beautiful poster was created in 1968 to promote a live concert of Taj Mahall at the world famous Avalon Ballroo...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1968 Taj Mahal - Avalon Ballroom Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by the concert poster artists Paul Kagan and David Smith this beautiful poster was created in 1968 to promote a live concert of Taj Mahal at the world famous Avalon Ballroom...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster New Jersey Seashore Pennsylvania Railroad Beach
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - New Jersey Seashore Go by train Pennsylvania Railroad - featuring a stunning image of people relaxing under colourful parasol umbrellas on a sandy be...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1967 Jimi Hendrix Experience & Country Joe and the Fish - Santa Barbara Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by concert poster artist Richard Tolmach, this beautiful poster was designed in 1967 to promote a live concert of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Country Joe and the Fish and S...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster BIF British Industries Fair London 1935 Art Deco Design
By Tom Purvis
Located in London, GB
Original vintage event poster for the BIF British Industries Fair held in London from 18 February to 3 March 1935 Engineering and Hardware sectio...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1967 Gerry Mulligan - Sam Smidt Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Gorgeous mid-century marvel with artwork by Sam Smidt as part of the Jazz Collectors Series depicting Gerry Mulligan was created in 1967. The great American multi-instrumentalist Mul...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Safe Working Load Limits Strength Pine Framed Poster
Located in New York, NY
Industrial wood framed poster of Safe Working Load Limits for Single and Double Sling Chains and Ropes. The glass is intact. Good condition with appropriate wear from age, with some ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Posters
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Poster British Airways BOAC BSAA BEA World Route Map Air Travel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster promoting British airline companies - BEA BOAC BSAA British European Overseas S American Airways - featuring a colourful graphic design showing three yellow and orange maps marked with flight routes and the respective company logo in white on black backgrounds. In 1949 BOAC British...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Czechoslovaks Carry On WWII Soldiers Army Flags War Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Czechoslovaks Carry On - featuring a dynamic image of a soldier holding a rifle gun in front of soldiers and flags against the deep...
Category
1940s Czech Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Gran Premio Pena Motorista Barcelona Montjuic
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster for the Gran Premio Pena Motorista Barcelona Circuito de Montjuich / Grand Prix Pena Motorista Barcelona Montjuic Circui...
Category
1940s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Located in London, GB
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Original British Quad (30 X 40 Inches)
This rare UK quad poster hails from the 1965 first UK release of David Lean’s epic masterpiece, Doctor Zhivago. A multi...
Category
1960s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Pursued / Notte Senza Fine
Located in London, GB
Exceptionally rare original Italian film poster for the 1947 western Pursued.
This film was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Teresa Wright and Robert Mitchum. To date no other exa...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Sveriges Grand Prix Kristianstad Sweden Race
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for Camping Bad TT Lopp VM Sveriges Grand Prix Skaneloppet Kristianstad / Swedish GP on 25-26 July featuring a dynamic motorsport illustration of a motorcycle...
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Ilfracombe Southern Railway Devon Coast
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for Ilfracombe On Glorious Devon's Ocean Coast by Southern Railway featuring scenic artwork by the British maritime artist Kenneth Denton Shoesmi...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes / Rififi
Located in London, GB
Original German film poster for Jules Dassin's fabulous 1955 Film Noir.
The artwork on this poster is unique to the films German poster.
This film starred Jean Servais, Carl Mohner...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Koln Cologne Cathedral Germany Mid-Century Modern
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Koln / Cologne featuring a stunning mid-century illustration by the German artist Werner Labbe (1909-1989) depicting the Cathedral Church of Saint ...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Post Office Savings Bank Save For The Child
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Think before spending Save for the child Post Office Savings Bank - featuring a black and white image of a hand reaching into a purse with a smi...
Category
1960s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Sport Poster Dameshockey Womens Hockey World Championship 1948
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster for the Women's Hockey World Championship held on 10-17 May 1948 in Amsterdam - Wereldkampioenschap Dameshockey 10-17 Mei 1948 Amsterdam - featuring col...
Category
1940s Dutch Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Poster Dartmouth Winter Carnival Ski Klondike
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski poster - Dartmouth Winter Carnival Klondike Kaleidoscope - held on 9, 10 and 11 February 1968 featuring a great graphic design depicting blue, red and yellow bir...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Winter Sports Go By Train British Railways Skiing Europe
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing poster - Winter Sports Go by Train - featuring a fun and colourful cartoon illustration of a smiling lady in a red jumper, a man wearing a bobble hat and smok...
Category
1960s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Jordan The Holy Land Al-Aqsa Mosque Old Jerusalem
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Jordan The Holy Land issued by the Jordan Tourism Authority featuring an illustration of one of the three holiest sites in Islam - the historic Al-...
Category
1960s Jordanian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster London Reisen Hamburg Sud Ottomar Anton
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise ship travel advertising poster promoting special fares from RM.65 Reichsmark offered by the Hamburg-South America Steamship company for 7 seven day trips from...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Greece Sail Boats Yachts Mosaic Hellenic Republic
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Greece - Griechenland - featuring a colourful mosaic style image depicting three sailing boats with a bright sun in the sky. Good condition, creasi...
Category
1960s Greek Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Glory Of The African Army French Foreign Legion Benigni
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for an Exhibition To The Glory of the African Army since 1830 / A La Gloire de l'Armee d'Afrique under the high patronage of the President of the ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Pop Art Poster " Jetzt Reichts Aber " By Lothar Gunther Buchheim, 1968
By Peter Max
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Mid Century Modern Psychedelic Pop Art Poster
" Jetzt Reichts Aber " By Lothar Gunther Buchheim, 1968
"Lothar-Günther Buchheim (February 6, 1918 – February 22, 2007) was a G...
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Military Recruitment Poster Britain's Commandos Royal Marines
Located in London, GB
Original vintage military recruitment poster for Britain's Commandos... The Royal Marines featuring artwork by the British poster designer Reginald Moun...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Bermuda Trans Canada Air Lines TCA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Bermuda by Trans-Canada Air Lines featuring a colourful illustration of sunglasses reflecting images of a couple sunbathing on a sandy ...
Category
1950s Canadian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Prien Am Chiemsee Spa Oberbayern Bavaria Germany
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Prien am Chiemsee Oberbayern Bavaria Germany featuring a smiling lady in a red swimming costume holding a large yellow beach ball above her head with a view over the...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Swiss Winter Sport Travel Poster Fribourg Alps Switzerland Hat
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport travel poster for the Fribourg Alps - Alpes Fribourgeoises Suisse Schweiz Switzerland Freiburger Alpen - featuring a fun illustration of a blue wool hat...
Category
1960s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Labour Management Strength Canada Victory War WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - This is our Strength Labour and Management are pooling their strength to give us the means for victory in war ... and progress in peace - feat...
Category
1940s Canadian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet War Poster Leningrad Workers WWII Rebuild The City
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Soviet home front propaganda poster - Трудящиеся Ленинграда! Восстановим наш город. Отремонтируeм дома и жилищa, приведем в порядок городское хозяйство...
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1940s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Military Poster Royal Scots Greys Scotland For Ever Armoured C.
Located in London, GB
Original vintage army recruitment poster featuring artwork by the Scottish commercial artist Tom Curr (1887-1958) depicting a man in military uniform on a horse in front of soldiers and tanks with flags on the regimental badge above reading Waterloo and Second to None on the banner, the bold title text in red and blue lettering with the information below: Royal Scots...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster 24 Heures Du Mans 1968 Motorcycle Car Race Le Mans Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motor sport poster for the 8eme Criterium International de Vitesse Motocycliste essais des voitures des 24 Heures du Mans sur les circuit des 24 heures les 6 et 7 Av...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster for Glorious Devon British Railways See Britain By Train
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Glorious Devon issued by British Railways featuring great artwork by the notable British artist Leslie Arthur Wilcox...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Regards Sur L'Afrique' Original Vintage Poster by Jacques Bonneaud, 1944
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Regards Sur L'Afrique' Original Vintage Poster by Jacques Bonneaud, 1944
This poster is an original poster from 1944, there are slight signs of age such a fold marks which is consi...
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Poster Merton Of The Movies Tyrone Guthrie Theatre Comedy Play
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Merton of the Movies George S. Kaufman Marc Connelly Minnesota Theatre Company Tyrone Guthrie Theatre featuring a stun...
Category
1960s American Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Shiga Kogen Resort Nagano Electric Railway Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Shiga Kogen Mountain resort in Japan issued by the Nagano Electric Railway featuring scenic artwork showing a cable car in red over a picturesq...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Open Air Plays Szeged Hungary Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Open Air Plays in Szeged Hungary from 28 July to 15 August 1939 including Aida The Tragedy of Man Hungarian Passion Play Byzantium Turando...
Category
1930s Hungarian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Hong Kong Fly Northwest Orient Airlines Asia Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Hong Kong Fly Northwest Orient Airlines featuring a colourful illustration of a fisherman sitting in the foreground...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1967 Jefferson Airplane - Denver Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by concert poster artist Alton Kelley, this beautiful poster was created in 1967 to promote a live concert of Jefferson Airplane in Denver, Colorado. The event was part of t...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Fill That Gap WWII Armament Work Training
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster Fill That Gap featuring an image of gentlemen walking alongside a blank silhouette with an illustration of a worker holding a wrench in front of...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Orient Line Australia McKnight Kauffer Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Orient Line to Australia - featuring a great design by one of the most renowned poster artists of the 20th century Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Dolomites Holiday Italy Franz Lenhart
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster in French - Pour vos vacances Sud Tirol Italie Dolomites / For your holidays South Tyrol Italy Dolomites - mountain range located in north eastern Italy. Colourful illustration by Franz Lenhart (1898-1992) depicting a pair of glasses next to a pot of alpine country flowers...
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1940s Italian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Blanket Design Of The Haida Indians Alaska San Francisco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage exhibition poster featuring artwork by Louis Siegriest (1899-1990) depicting a Blanket Design of the Haida Indians Alaska in red against a black background with the ...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Luci del Varieta / Variety Lights
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1950 Italian film Luci del Varieta / Variety Lights. This film starred Peppino De Filippo Carla Del Poggio and Giulietta Masina.
This poster is c...
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1950s Italian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Les Diablerets Switzerland Cable Car Swiss Alps Devil
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Les Diablerets 1200-3000m Suisse Schweiz Switzerland featuring an updated version of the 1947 poster by the Swiss poster...
Category
1960s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Spielbank-Affare 1963 Russia Film Movie Poster, Lukyanov
Located in Bath, Somerset
We love this Russian film poster from 1963 for German high stakes flick Spielbank-Affare. Fabulous artwork by Lukyanov.
This original vintage mo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Russian Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Vacation Book Vacantie Boek Sky Jan Wijga
By Jan Wijga
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Holiday with a Book / Vacantie... met 'n Boek - designed by Jan Wijga (1902-1978) featuring a relaxed man wearing a green jacket and chequered t...
Category
1950s Dutch 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.)
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