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Posters For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1920s
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
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 Vintage Travel Poster Rhodesia Pictorial Map Southern Africa Zimbabwe
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - A Pictorial Map of Rhodesia (Southern & Northern) - featuring a colourful map of the region with the railway and road routes and illustrations of bui...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Zeebrugge Museum Belgium HMS Vindictive
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Zeebrugge Museum Belgium featuring a colourful bold design by Maurice Sieron (1879-1970) of the cruiser steamship H.M.S. Vindictive sailing in...
Category
1930s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Kyoto Hotel Japan Kansai Honshu Nippon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Asia travel poster promoting the Kyoto Hotel in Kyoto Japan featuring an elegant image of a lady in a traditional Japanese kimono dress with a floral pattern on it a...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Germany Berlin Art Deco Dzubas Deutschland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Germany Berlin - by the German artist Wilhelm 'Willy' Dzubas (b. 1887) for the country's capital city featuring a stunning Art Deco painting depictin...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster It's Beautiful Now In New York State Travel Hiking Fall
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - It's Beautiful Now In ... New York State The State That Has Everything, featuring a stunning design in late summer early fall autumn colors of deep red, orange and brown shades, yellow and green, depicting the silhouette of a couple hiking in the New York countryside with a tree framing the image next to the man holding one arm in the air and lady holding a hiking stick...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1930s Futurist Watercolor of a Motorbike Race by Italian Artist Aris Bacci
Located in London, GB
A 1930s futurist watercolor painting of a motorbike race by Italian futurist artist Aris Bacci. Mounted in original geometric cream mottled frame, with stun...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Wood, 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
Madame Butterfly
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the 1932 drama, romance.
This is an exceptionally rare piece that has only surfaced a few times.
The artwork is unique to the films first release i...
Category
1930s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Fly By Imperial Airways Paris Prague
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Fly By Imperial Airways London to Paris while you lunch Prague 6 hours Vienna 7 1/2 hours Budapest 9 hours - featuring colourful artwork ...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Waterproof Tarpaulin Ettore Moretti Milano
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Copertoni Impermeabili Ettore Moretti Milano - for waterproof fabric covers manufactured by Ettore Moretti Milan Italy featuring a great design ...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster At London's Service London Transport Epping Forest Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport travel poster - At London's Service - featuring a colourful illustration by the British poster designer and artist Clive Gardiner (1891-1960) depicting a scenic view of the historic Epping Forest...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Saturday Evening Post Clown Pooch Dog
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the 3 June 1939 issue of The Saturday Evening Post illustrated magazine featuring a clown in a blue and red polka dot outfit teaching a dog tr...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
What Price Hollywood
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster used in cinemas in America when the film was first,
released in 1932 This American pre-Hays Code (censorship) film was directed by George Cukor and produced ...
Category
1930s American 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
Original Vintage Military Poster Troupes Metropolitaines Cavalry Arc De Triomphe
Located in London, GB
Original vintage military recruitment poster issued by the Ministry of War of the French Republic - Join re-join the Metropolitan Troops / Republique Francaise Ministere de la Guerre Engagez-vous Rengagez-vous dans les Troupes Metropolitaines - featuring artwork by the French war correspondent and illustrator Georges Scott (1873-1943) depicting cavalry soldiers on horses riding next to army motorcyclists and a tank driving past army troops and flags in front of the historic Arc de Triomphe in Paris...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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
Original Vintage Travel Poster Victoria Falls Waterfall Southern Rhodesia Africa
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Victoria Falls more than a mile wide Southern Rhodesia - featuring scenic artwork by William George Bevington (1881-1953) depicting a rainbow emerging from the cascading water at the base of the Victoria Falls waterfall with trees and bushes in the foreground, the bold white and orange lettering in the grey border below. Located in Africa on the Zambezi River...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Victory Cigarettes Advertisement Poster, c. 1930
Located in Chicago, IL
This poster from the 1930s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography and a side of risque. Posters like this one, influenced by ...
Category
1930s Chinese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paint, Paper
Original Vintage Polish State Railways Travel Poster Krakow Festival Poland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Polish State Railways train travel poster advertising the Krakow Festival in Poland / Pologne Fetes de Cracovie on 3-24 June 1939 featuring a colourful design depict...
Category
1930s Polish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Alcala University Madrid Spain PNT Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by the Spanish national tourist board Patronato Nacional del Turismo PNT - Alcala de Henares Cradle of Cervantes Renaissance University / Cuna D...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage 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
Bellenger, Original Art Deco Motorcycle Poster, Favor Bicycle, Mechanic, 1937
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Art Deco Poster created by Bellenger for Cycle Favor in 1937.
Artist: Bellenger Jacques et Pierre
Title : Favor - De la belle mécanique ! Cycles - Motos
Date: 1937
Size: 23...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Australia Koala Bears Eucalyptus Tourist Oceania
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Australia For The Tourist - featuring a great photo collage design showing three koalas sitting on the branches of a gum tree with eucalyptus leaves ...
Category
1930s Australian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Shell Bristol Bombays RAF Carl Felkel
By Carl Felkel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - For High Performance Lubrication by Shell - featuring a dynamic design by Carl Felkel (1896-1973) depicting a scenic view of three Royal Air For...
Category
1930s British Vintage 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
Framed Advertising Poster for the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris
Located in Ulm, DE
Advertising poster for the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris
Framed advertising poster
"exposition internationale 1937 PARIS"
Printed by Julis Simon S.A. Paris
original Art Deco, Fran...
Category
1930s French Mid-Century Modern 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
Original Vintage London Underground Poster To The Fields Betty Swanwick TfL
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster - To the Fields - featuring colourful spring time artwork by the English artist, novelist, art teacher and head of illustration at Goldsmiths...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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
Old Art Deco Advertising Poster, 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
- Original poster (no replica), framed,
- 1930s
- Marked by author.
Category
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Glass, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Pologne Poland Upper Silesia Industrial Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Art Deco design travel poster for Poland Upper Silesia / Pologne Haute Silesie featuring a factory and rig with an industrial chimney on a grey background. The histo...
Category
1930s Polish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster North West England LMS Railway F Marston
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster issued by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway - LMS North West England - featuring scenic artwork of the Lake District by the British painte...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Jesse James / Le Brigand bien-Aime
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1939 Western. This film was directed by Henry King, and stars Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott. The film is broadly based on the life of the notorious outlaw Jesse James...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Le Cafe Paul Fouquet Vintage Lithographic Poster Archivally Framed and Glazed
Located in San Francisco, CA
An original French lithographic advertising poster for Cafe Paul Fouquet, circa 1925-1930. Now archivally framed and glazed with UV resistant plexiglass. Provenance: Sarah Stocking, ...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Avec Le Sourire / with a Smile
Located in London, GB
Original French movie poster for Avec le Sourire / with a smile, 1936
staring Maurice Chevalier. The wonderful art work is by Jean-Adrien Mercier (1899-1995) one of Frances most res...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Located in London, GB
This is an extremely rare and beautiful original US title card for the 1935 fantasy film A Midsummer Night's Dream.
This film starred James Cagney, Dick Powell and Olivia de Havilla...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Auch Im Winter Deutsche Lufthansa Also In Winter
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Deutsche Lufthansa Also in Winter / Auch Im Winter Deutsche Lufthansa featuring a scenic view of a pr...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Megeve Ski France SNCF Railways Art Alps Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Megeve issued by the state owned French National Railways (SNCF Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; founded 1938) featuring a view of tr...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Dubrovnik Jugoslavia Gem Of The Adriatic Coast
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Dubrovnik The Gem of the Jugoslav Adriatic featuring a stunning scenic view of the historic city on the clear blue sea with palm trees in the foreground and hills in the distance. Artwork by Hans Wagula (1894-1964). Dubrovnik is an ancient walled...
Category
1930s Croatian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Rail Travel Poster The Algerian South Camel Art Algeria Africa
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for The Algerian South / Le Sud Algerien featuring a stunning image set in the north Africa desert of a man on a camel with buildings on the horizon, a...
Category
1930s Algerian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Scandinavia Travel Poster Summer Night In Norway Deer G Jynge
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Summer Night In Norway - featuring stunning artwork by the Norwegian painter and illustrator Gert Jynge (1904-1994) depicting two deer grazing on the...
Category
1930s Norwegian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Spanish Travel Poster Gran Canaria Art Deco Continent Miniature
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Spanish travel poster - Gran Canaria a continent in miniature - featuring a scenic view of ocean liners and other sailing boats an...
Category
1930s Spanish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Original Vintage Poster, 'LIBERIA CYCLING', 1934
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Art Deco Original Vintage Poster, 'LIBERIA CYCLING', 1934
This is an original vintage poster from 1934 advertising the French road bike frame, Liberia. Th...
Category
1930s French Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Sport Poster Olympic Games Berlin 1936 Franz Wurbel English
By Franz Würbel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Summer Olympic Games poster for the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin from 1-16 August published by the German Railways Head Office for Tourist Traffic and the Propa...
Category
1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Soviet Propaganda We Stand For Peace Air Force Military
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - We Stand For Peace - featuring a great design depicting a squadron of military planes with red stars on the wings flying in the blue sky a...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage 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
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster Cunard The Connecting Link Europe America
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster advertising Cunard The Connecting Link Europe America featuring a great design depicting a Cunard Line ocean liner...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Air France Paris Rome Ala Littoria Albert Solon
By Albert Solon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Air France Paris Rome Ala Littoria featuring a stunning design by Albert Solon (1897-1973) depicting ancient stone pill...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Marihuana' Original Vintage US One Sheet Movie Poster, 1930s
Located in Devon, GB
Claiming to be a "Daring Drug Expose!", this early exploitation film evaded strict censorship of its lurid content ("Weird Orgies, Wild Parties, Unleashed Passions!") by claiming to ...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage 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
Giant French Horse Racing Poster Mural by Jacquot, circa 1930s
By Michel Jacquot
Located in Essex, MA
A rare, giant original French horse racing poster or mural, lithograph on paper, mounted on linen, in four panels joined to form one large image b...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage French Art Deco Poster, 'Gourdant' by D Frapojut, Paris, 1933
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Artist:
D Frapojut
Year:
1933
Dimensions:
130 x 85cm
Condition:
Good condition
Format:
Linen backed.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
City Lights
Located in London, GB
This is a rare and desirable original US lobby card for the one of Charlie Chaplin's greatest films. It was released in 1931 when sound had already been out for a few years. Chaplin...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Anti Religion Soviet Propaganda Poster Cross And Tractor Farmer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage anti-religious communist propaganda poster entitled Крест и Трактор / Cross and Tractor featuring a cartoon style design b...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Villard De Lans Paradise Art Deco Roger Broders
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Villard de Lans Children's Paradise / Le Paradis Des Enfants featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the notable French artist Roger Broders (1883-...
Category
1930s French Art Deco 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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