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Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1890s
Vintage Chinese Fashion Advertisement, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
In tandem with a growing number of newspapers and periodicals, print advertising proliferated during China’s Republic Era. A bathing beauty is the star attraction of this print ad fr...
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1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Original 20th Century French Bourin Poster
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Jacques and Pierre Bellenger designed this original vintage poster in 1936. This clever image shows that Bourin Quinquina is the perfect versatile bev...
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Early 20th Century Swedish Posters

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Original Vintage Poster For Julius Meinl Tee Asia Tea Drink Advertising Design
By Otto Exinger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Meinl Tee from Asia featuring a stylish image by Otto Exinger (1897-1957) of a man carrying two boxes of Meinl tea on a shoulder pole. Julius Meinl...
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1920s German Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Poster Goodrich Tires Master Of The Road Le Maitre De La Route
Located in London, GB
Original antique tire advertising poster for La Souple Corde Goodrich Le Maitre de la Route/The Master of the Roads featuring a great illustration depict...
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1920s French Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Political Poster Liberals Budget Tax Reason Why Worker Rich Man
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election propaganda poster issued by the Liberal Party - The Reason Why - featuring an illustration of two men, one wearing a suit and top hat clenching his fist and holding a paper that reads - The Budget Income tax Super tax - and the other man a worker carrying a basket of tools over his shoulder and holding a pipe in his hand, their conversation text as quotes below - Workman (to Rich Man...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters

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Original Antique Poster Eye Opener Tariff Reform Food Taxes German British Bread
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election propaganda poster issued by the Liberal Party in support of Tariff Reform - An Eye Opener - featuring an illustration of...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters

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Original Vintage Skiing Poster Winter Sport Germany Downhill Skier Artwork
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski poster entitled Wintersport featuring dynamic artwork by Karl Biebrach (b.1882) depicting a skier dressed in black skiing at speed down ...
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1920s German Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Poster Blackpool Lido Indoor Swimming Pool Seaside Resort Spa
Located in London, GB
Very large size original vintage travel advertising poster for the Lido indoor swimming pool Lytham Road S. Shore Blackpool featuring a stunning Art Deco design for the South Shore Lido (1923-1983) at the popular seaside resort...
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1920s British Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage French Cycle Bike Poster "De Dion Bouton" 1925 Art Deco
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original Vintage French Cycle Bike Poster "De Dion Bouton" 1925 Art Deco An original vintage poster from 1925, this Art Deco poster is in very good condition. It has been linen bac...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Poster Societe Marseillaise De Credit Post WWI Rebuilding Loan
Located in London, GB
Original antique post-World War One propaganda poster to help raise funds for the country's rebuilding efforts after the war - Societe Marseillaise De Credit Souscrivez a l'Emprunt Francais A l'Oeuvre! / To Work! Subscribe to the French Loan - featuring a great design by Auguste Leroux...
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1920s French Vintage Posters

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Set of San Mateo, CA House Blue Prints c.1923
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A set of four blue prints for a residence in San Mateo Park, San Mateo, California. Sold as a set only. CREATOR Herbert O. Alden, San Francisco, CA. DATE OF MANUFACT...
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Early 20th Century American Industrial Posters

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1900 Three-Sheet Theater Poster
By Russell-Morgan Co. 1
Located in Peekskill, NY
This was an estate find and part of a beautiful collection of rare excellent turn of the century posters. They were hidden away for over 100 years. This is a rare and impressive 3 sheet poster that is 7 foot tall. It make quite a statement. About the poster: You'd think that a play called "The New Baby" might feature said child in its promotional material. But here's the thing - there really isn't a baby at the centre of the comedy, and that's the crux of this entertainment. The plot concerns a husband who is so bored with country life that he dreams up the idea of having an illegitimate son in London as a way to get into town for an occasional 'night off'. When his wife decides that the child should be adopted, the expected comic tissue of falsehoods and misunderstandings frays and hilarity ensues. Adapted from German by A. Bourchier, the farce opened in London in 1896 to what a local critic termed 'much mirth'. Several years later, when the play had crossed the Atlantic and entered the repertory of David de Wolf cleverly called the Baby's chaperone on the poster and his troupe of traveling players, that understated review was translated into the more American howling success. The cast and director would've been totally unfamiliar with the British hinterlands, so this splendid design concentrates on the hi-jinks of the characters and their situation. At the start of the 20th century, America was in the full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy and optimism. In 1900 in New York there were 33 legitimate Broadway theaters...
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Early 1900s American American Craftsman Antique Posters

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Original Antique Poster Liberals Tory Promises Tariff Reform German & Uncle Sam
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election propaganda poster issued by the Liberal Party - Not Taking Any - featuring an illustration of two men, an American depicted as Uncle Sam wearing a striped suit and top hat and a German depicted as Deutscher Michel (Michael the German) wearing a green jacket, glasses and a cap, pointing and looking at a poster on a wall reading - no increase in the cost of living will take place owing to the effect of Tariff Reform...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters

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Original Antique Fashion Clothing Advertising Poster Hermann Scherrer Hohlwein
Located in London, GB
Original antique men's fashion and clothing advertising poster for Hermann Scherrer Breeches maker Sporting Tailor Munchen Neuhauser Strasse 32. Great artwork by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) featuring a man carrying a saddle and a horse whip...
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Early 1900s German Antique Posters

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Original Vintage Poster What Was It A Flight Into The Blue Belle Epoque Art Book
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for a new book from Eckstein's Illustrated Novel Library entitled Was war es? Ein flug ins blaue - What Was It? A Flight Into The Blue by Richard Nordhausen (1868-1941), also known by the pseudonyms Max Kempff and Caliban, with illustrations by F. Stassen - Neu erscheinen! Ecksteins Illustrierte Romanbibliothek Hier vorrathig! In stock here! - featuring an art nouveau style image of a young lady wearing a fashionable white and blue ruffle dress and long yellow gloves...
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1890s German Art Nouveau Antique Posters

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Original Vintage Poster Norway The Land Of The Midnight Sun Travel Fjord Puffins
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Norway The Land of the Midnight Sun Travel via Norwegian America Line featuring stunning artwork by Benjamin ...
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1920s Norwegian Vintage Posters

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"The First 100 Years" Original US Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US movie poster for the 1923 silent comedy staring Harry Langdon, Alice Day. This is a beautiful example of 1923 stone lithography printing.
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1920s American Vintage Posters

Original 1927 Constructivist Soviet Movie Poster Der Letzte Mann The Last Laugh
By Stenberg Brothers and Yakov Ruklevsky
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the Soviet release of a 1924 German silent film Der Letzte Mann (The Last Man) The Last Laugh about an aging doorman of a prestigious hotel who is d...
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1920s Russian Vintage Posters

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Rare Large Original Vintage Camera Advertising Poster Take A Kodak With You Sea
By Frederick Pegram
Located in London, GB
Rare and very large original vintage advertising poster - Take a Kodak with you - featuring the iconic Kodak Girl by the British artist Fred Pegram (Frede...
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1920s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Norwegian Railway Poster Norway Summer Season Travel Fjord View
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel advertising poster for Norway Summer Season June-September featuring great artwork by Benjamin Blessum (1877-1954) depicting a scenic fjord view of the Norwegian landscape showing a lake in the foreground with wooden cabins...
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1920s Norwegian Vintage Posters

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Richard Ranft, Original Vintage Poster, Salon des Cent, Exhibition, Paris, 1894
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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Original Vintage Food Advertising Poster Caramel Creme Klaus Swiss Chocolate Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage food advertising poster for a Swiss chocolate company - Caramel Mou a la Creme Klaus - featuring a great design by Gi...
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1920s Italian Vintage Posters

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Large Early Original Antique Drink Advertising Poster - Bitter Campari Aperitif
Located in London, GB
Original antique three panel drink advertising poster for the Italian bitter aperitif alcohol brand Campari featuring a striking oval framed Art Nouvea...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Posters

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Original Antique Advertising Poster Orientale Ballet Sergastchenko Dancing Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster - Orientale A Ballet Divertissement by Sergastchenko management of C. Talmage Culver A.E. Seymour director of tour - featuring a great illustratio...
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1920s American Vintage Posters

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So This Is College
Located in London, GB
Original Framed US film poster for ‘So This Is College” the 1929 comedy musical staring Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomery and directed by Sam Wood. The fabulous art work is by John Held Jr...
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1920s American Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Poster Tomorrow When Labour Rules UK Elections Party Politics
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election poster by Spencer Pryse (Gerald Spencer Pryse; 1882-1957): To-morrow - When Labour Rules featuring a great design depi...
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1920s British Vintage Posters

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They're Off / Arligt Spel
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish film poster for silent 1918 film. The film was directed by Roy William Neill starredEnid Bennett. This is an exceptionally rare 104 ye...
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1910s Swedish Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Advertising Poster Eureka Cigars PC Boon Havana Habana Tobacco
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Eureka superfine Cigars manufactured by P.C. Boon Havana Exportation - Granda Manufactura de Cigaros superfinos de P.C. Boon Habana Exportatio...
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1920s Belgian Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Poster Onwards For The Motherland Russia War Loan WWI Cavalry
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war loan poster - War Loan. Onwards, for Motherland! / ??????? ????. ??????, ?? ??????! - featuring a dynamic design depicting a soldier in armour riding forward into battle on a horse at speed with his cape flowing in the wind and his bow and arrows at his side, holding a flag flying in the background with the imperial Russian double headed eagle...
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1910s Russian Vintage Posters

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The Pinch Hitter / Bollklubbens Mascot
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish Movie poster for the 1917 film first released in Sweden in 1919. American sports / Comedy about Shy Joel Parker bound for nowhere...
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1910s Swedish Vintage Posters

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Fillol, Naval Combat, 1900 Universal Exhibition, Paris, Warships, Vintage Poster
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Poster produced for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris to promote an attraction on the sidelines of the Exhibition, namely a naval battle. ...
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Thonon Les Bains PLM Roger Broders Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage PLM travel poster for Thonon Les Bains ses eaux, le lac, la montagne / its waters, the lake, the mountain featuring a stunning art deco design by the notable French ...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Poster Britain's Strong Arm Enlist Now WWI Military Recruitment
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One military recruitment poster - Britain's Strong Arm and Yours Will Carry Us Through Enlist Now - featuring the bold white text on a blue background with...
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1910s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Train Travel Poster The Trossachs Scotland LNER Railway Cooper
Located in London, GB
Original vintage LNER train travel poster designed by one of England's leading poster artists Austin Cooper (1890-1964): The Trossachs Tour Scotland by London and North Eastern Railw...
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1920s British Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Art Exhibition Poster Goupil Gallery Andre Sinet France Sketch
By Andre Sinet
Located in London, GB
Original antique art exhibition poster - Now on view Pictures & sketches by M. Andre Sinet - held at the Goupil Gallery 5 Regent Street Pall Mall in London featuring artwork by the F...
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1890s British Antique Posters

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Annie-For-Spite / Lev Livet Leende!
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish film poster for silent 1917 drama. The film was directed by James Kirkwood starred Mary Miles Minter and George Fisher. This beautiful...
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1910s Swedish Vintage Posters

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Original ENIT Travel Poster - Roma Mercato di Traiano Trajan's Market Rome Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster published by the Italian tourist board ENIT to promote the Trajan's Market / Mercato di Traiano ruins in the city of Rome built in 100-110A...
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1920s Italian Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Poster Vicenza Italia Italy Travel Renaissance Basilica Piazza
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster published by the Italian Tourism Board ENIT to promote the historical city of Vicenza in the Veneto region of north eastern Italy featuring...
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1920s Italian Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Switzerland St Gothard Railway Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Switzerland The St. Gothard Electric Railway featuring scenic artwork by Daniele Buzzi (b 1890) depicting a locomotive train on a track...
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1920s Swiss Vintage Posters

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Richard Ranft, Original Vintage Poster, Salon des Cent, Exhibition, Mouse, 1894
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Richard Ranft-Salon des Cent-The Feather-Mouse, 1894 Poster for the 6th edition of the Salon des Cent in November 1894. A woma...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters

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Original Antique Poster Ruiter Ice Skating Factory Friesland Special Skates
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster advertising Ruiter's Schaatsenfabriek Akkrum Friesland Speciaal Schaatsen / Ruiter's Skating Factory Akkru Friesland's Special Skates featuring an illustratio...
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1920s Dutch Vintage Posters

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Original Antique British WWI Recruitment Poster Join At Once Fight For Flag
Located in London, GB
Original antique British World War One recruitment poster - Join At Once Fight For The Dear Old Flag - featuring an image of the Union Jack f...
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1910s British Vintage Posters

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Original Antique WWI Home Front War Loan Poster Make Your Dollars End The War
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One home front war loan poster featuring bold red and blue lettering - Make your dollars end the war Your liberty your forefathers died for is at stake If ...
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1910s American Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Travel Poster Skegness So Bracing GNR Fisherman John Hassall
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster - GNR Skegness is so Bracing - issued by the Great Northern Railway for the seaside town located on the North Sea in Lincolnshire featuring the fun and...
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1920s European Vintage Posters

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "Jane Avril" Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Aptly titled "Jane Avril," celebrated lithograph artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captures here, in static form, the very particular brand of motion Avril f...
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1890s French Antique Posters

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Giltwood, Paper

Original Antique Bicycle Advertising Poster by Chapellier - Cycles Rochet Amiens
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the French bicycle manufacturer Rochet usines & bureaux a Amiens Somme / factories and offices in Amiens. Great artwork showing a lion hol...
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Early 1900s French Antique Posters

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Original Antique Poster Tea Picking In Ceylon Sri Lanka Empire Marketing Board
Located in London, GB
Original antique Empire Marketing Board poster - Tea Picking in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) - featuring workers in a tea plantation filling their baskets with tea leaves in front of hills in ...
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1920s British Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Travel Poster Compagnie Franco Roumaine De Navigation Aerienne
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel advertising poster for the Compagnie Franco Roumaine de Navigation Aerienne / French Romanian Company for Air Transport featuring great artwork of a plane fly...
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1920s French Vintage Posters

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Original Antique War Bond Poster Austrian War Loan Viennese Bank Association WWI
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war bond poster - Subscribe to the War Loan Imperial and Royal Chartered Viennese Bank Association / Zeichnet Kriegsanleihe!...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Posters

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"Baby Mine, Barnet-Mitt, " Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish Movie poster for the American 1917 Comedy. The Artwork is by Eric Rohman (1891-1949) Eric Rohman was a pioneer in poster design....
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1910s Swedish Vintage Posters

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Shanghai Deco Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Poster, c. 1930
Located in Chicago, IL
This framed advertising poster for Nanyang Brothers Tobacco dates to the 1920-30s and melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the nuanced color and fine resolution of color lithography. Known as yuefenpai, or calendar posters, these advertisements depicted fashionable women and intriguing scenery alongside annual calendars and product placements. Evolved from traditional nianhua paintings (New Year pictures), these advertising posters were strongly influenced by the Art Deco movement in the west and recall the economic boom of early 20th century Shanghai, an international center of business and trade. In this example, a young woman dressed in fine clothing and jewelry strolls through a traditional courtyard garden, surrounded by stone statues and towering pagodas. In the lower left corner is an open pack of Golden Dragon Cigarettes and below an array of cigarette brands, each a product of Nanyang Brothers Tobacco. The scene is surrounded by trailing vine scrollwork and text suggesting the poster may have been given as a corporate gift...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Posters

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Original Vintage Art Deco Travel Poster Summer In Germany Sailing Verao Alemanha
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Art Deco travel poster - O Verao Na Alemanha / The Summer in Germany - featuring stunning artwork by the notable German poster artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) of a fashionable lady in a summer dress holding a red sun umbrella...
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1920s German Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Advertising Poster Kubelik Estoma Chanternelle Violin Strings
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster - Emplee solamente cuerdas Kubelik Estoma Chanternelle con esta marca de fabric / Use only Kubelik Stoma Chanternelle strings with this manufactur...
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1920s Spanish Vintage Posters

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Set of Nine Antique Teaching Posters from Litography A. Haase, Prague, 1900s
Located in Praha, CZ
- in good original condition - A HAAS Prague.
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1890s Antique Posters

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Original Antique War Bonds Poster War Savings Certificates Buy For Her WWI
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war bonds poster - For her! Buy War Savings Certificates £1 for 15'6 in 5 years You can get your money back any time - featuring an illustration of an elegant lady in a fashionable long black dress with flowers on her and a fur shawl around her shoulders, holding a paper in her gloved hand next to a soldier in uniform with his arm around her and a dog looking up at the happy couple, the text in bold red and black lettering in the background. Artwork by the notable British political...
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1910s British Vintage Posters

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Charlet, Original Vintage Poster, Fixine, Garment Dye, Bullfight, Bull, 1925
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for Fixine by Charlet in 1925. Artist: Charlet Title: Fixine, teinture ménagère pratique Date: 1925 Size: 46.3 x 62 in / 117,5 x 157,5 cm Printer : LES...
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1920s French Vintage Posters

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Original Antique Poster Le Glob' Trotter Cycles Paris Bicycle Lion Design Bike
Located in London, GB
Original antique bicycle advertising poster for Le Glob' Trotter Cycles Paris featuring great artwork of a lioness looking out to the viewer, her paws clawing on the top of a brick w...
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1890s French Antique Posters

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "L'Artisan Moderne" Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
A rare and well-sought variant of the celebrated poster "L'Artisan Moderne," by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this special lithograph includes a seldom seen addition of the text reading...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters

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Giltwood, 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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