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Posters For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1880s
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Mercedes Benz Victory ADAC 1955 300SLR Fangio
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster celebrating the Mercedes-Benz victory at the XVIII Internat. ADAC Eifelrennen 1955 der Sportwagen (300 SL...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Ladykillers
Located in London, GB
Original 1955 trade advertisement from Kinematograph weekly December 8th 1955. This was part of the advertising Campaign in the UK for the Classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage British Railways Train Travel Poster Devon Pictorial Map UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Travel By Train British Railways poster - Devon Third largest county of England famous for its cream and cider its varied natural scenery and lovely resorts - featur...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
North by Northwest / La Mort aux Trousses
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful original Belgium film poster US from the first release of this Classic Hitchcock in Belgium in 1959.
This piece in unfolded and conservation linen backed it would...
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Caribbean BOAC Dance Airways Hayes
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for The Caribbean fly there by BOAC featuring a colourful image of a smiling Caribbean lady dancing in a traditional dress and wearing a headscarf, necklaces, bracelets and hoop earrings, her skirt sweeping around against the yellow and white background with the stylised title text above. British Overseas...
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1950s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Royal Windsor British Railways Fred Taylor
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster - Royal Windsor - featuring a scenic view of a troop of royal guards marching in their red uniforms past the Round Tower in the grounds of the hi...
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1950s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Scotland Loch Achray Ben Venue Porteous Wood UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Scotland Where You Are Always Welcome featuring a colourful scenic painting by the watercolour artist and designer James Porteous Wood ...
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1950s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Music Poster Jazz At Chelsea Mike Daniels Delta Jazzmen Beatty
Located in London, GB
Original vintage music poster advertising a Jazz At Chelsea performance by Mike Daniels Delta Jazzmen featuring Doreen Beatty with an Interval Ban...
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1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1950 Perugina Chocolates Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Founded in 1907 and named after the town in which it is based, Perugina is an Italian chocolate and confectionary company that continues to trade to this day.
This beautiful art d...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Africa Travel Poster Belgian Congo Ruanda Urundi Tribal Dress
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Africa travel poster issued by the Information and Documentation Centre of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi in Brussels with the logo and text in French and Germa...
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Poster Nicolas Rin Galerie Chardin Abstract
Located in London, GB
Original vintage art exhibition poster - Rin Galerie Chardin - held in Paris from 18 to 31 December 1959, featuring a colourful abstract paintin...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
”Garden Of Evil” Original US Film Poster, 1954
Located in Stockholm, SE
Original US version of this Garden Of Evil film poster. Numbered on lower right hand corner, 54/268. Some minor ware as seen on last picture. Garden of Evil (1954) is a Western film, directed by Henry Hathaway, about three somewhat disreputable 19th century soldiers of fortune, played by Gary Cooper as an ex-lawman, Richard Widmark as a gambler, and Cameron Mitchell as a bounty hunter, who are randomly hired by a woman, portrayed by Susan Hayward...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Skiing Poster Wengen Berner Oberland Switzerland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster for Wengen Berner Oberland Switzerland featuring a great black and white photo design showing skiers skiing at speed...
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1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Recruitment Poster Regular Army Guardians Of Peace Hong Kong
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British military recruitment poster - Soldiers of the Queen The Regular Army Guardians of Peace - featuring an illustration of a smiling soldier in uniform disembark...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
No Greater Sin or Le Plus Grand Peche
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the 1941 Exploitation film directed by William high and starring LeonAmes, Launa Walters.
The film would not have been released in Belgium until aft...
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Posters
Original Vintage Travel Poster Beirut Lebanon PanAm Airline Middle East Gateway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Gateway to the Middle East and the Holy Land Beirut Lebanon by Clipper Pan American World Airways World's Most Experien...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Wrong Man / Il Ladro
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Alfred Hitchcock's ‘The Wrong Man’, 1956.
This poster was created by Luigi Martinati (1893-1984) for the film's first I...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Philippines Northwest Orient Airlines Asia Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Asia travel poster for the Philippines Fly Northwest Orient Airlines featuring illustrations depicting a farmer walking next to his o...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Incredible Shrinking Man / Radiazioni, B, 'X' Distruzione Uomo
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1957 Science fiction film The Incredible Shrinking Man.
This poster would have been used outside the cinema in a display case at the time of the ...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Sunset Boulevard
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 6 for the American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. The film stars William Holden, Gl...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage General Dynamics Poster Solar Dynamics Atoms for Peace Nitsche
By Erik Nitsche
Located in London, GB
Original vintage General Dynamics poster promoting El Atomo Para La Paz Solar Dynamics by the illustrator, typographer and graphic designer Erik Nitsche (...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Funny Face" Original Japanese Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese movie poster. This design was created only for this first release Japanese poster. It is exceptionally rare and is the only exa...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Earth Versus the Flying Saucers / La Terra Contro I Dischi Volanti
Located in London, GB
Original Italian posters for the 1956 science fiction film Earth Versus the Flying Saucers.
This wonderful poster is by the renowned Italian poster artist Anselmo Ballester...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster Scottish Cream Blended Scotch Whisky
Located in London, GB
Original vintage alcohol drink advertising poster stand - Scottish Cream Blended Scotch Whisky An Inspiring Spirit The Kinloch Distillery Co Ltd Glasgo...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
White Heat / La Furia Umana
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for White Heat, 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney w...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Post Office Advertising Poster Richmond Yorkshire Midcentury
Located in London, GB
Original vintage post office advertising poster featuring a great artwork by a British artist Richard Eurich (1903-1992) depicting a man looking at...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Visit Newfoundland Canada Playground Harbour Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Visit Newfoundland Canada's Newest Playground - featuring a colourful view of sailing boats anchored in a harbour with sea...
Category
1950s Canadian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage French Railway Travel Riviera Cote d'Azur French Railways SNCF
Located in London, GB
Original vintage French railway travel advertising poster in German - durch Frankreich mit der Bahn Riviera Cote d'Azur Franzosische Eisenbahnen / through France by train - featuring fun artwork...
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1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
North by Northwest
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card from the first release of this Classic Hitchcock film in the US in 1959.
The artwork on this lobby card featuring the crop dust...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Wrong Man
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Alfred Hitchcock's 1957 based on a true story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal. The art work on this poster is by Luigi Martinati (1893-198...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Leipzig Trade Fair MM DDR Germany Travel Advertising Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Leipzig Trade Fair featuring a colourful image depicting people walking to the fair between parked cars in the foreground with flags of the event with the blue MM initials and of the East German Democratic Republic...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage historical wall map of Europe around 1812, Belgium 1950s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 1950 / school map Europe 1812 / canvas, wood / Mid-century / vintage
Beautiful vintage wall-mounted historical map of Europe around 1812, designed by Inst. J.B. Wolters Mi...
Category
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Original Vintage Travel Poster SAS Scandinavian Airlines System Olle Svensson
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for SAS Scandinavian Airlines System featuring a colourful design depicting a plane flying around the globe with the flags of Sweden, Norwa...
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Advertising Poster See Britain By Train Scotland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel advertising poster - See Britain by Train - featuring a colourful illustration of a Scottish piper in uniform playing mu...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Air France Proche Orient Middle East Airline Art
By Jean Even
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Middle East / Proche Orient Air France (Near East) featuring a colourful illustration by the French artist Jean Even (1910-1986) depicting people in white...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Pickup" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster from the 1951 film Pickup. Hugo Haas (1901-1968) was an acknowledged master of bad girl films. He was born in Czechoslovakia, wher...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Car Racing Poster Mercedes Benz Tourist Trophy Ireland 1955
Located in London, GB
Original vintage car racing poster issued by Mercedes Benz to commemorate their triple victory at the Tourist Trophy Irland / Ireland races in 1955 w...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Anatomical Human Internal Organs Structure Chart, 1951, Germany
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Vintage pull-down anatomical human chart, print of a painting for Dr. Neues & Co Kempen, Germany. The chart is part of the series: Biologisch-hygienisches Unterichtswerk des Deutsche...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster Vins De Bordeaux Anchor French Wine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Vins de Bordeaux / Bordeaux wines of France featuring a bright and colourful design by the French poster artist Herve Moran (1917-1980) ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Young and Wild
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1958 Exploitation film Young and Wild.
This film was directed by William Witney and starred Gene Evans and Scott Marlowe.
It is one of those cases w...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Ryndam Maasdam Holland America Line Poseidon Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - A New Concept in Tourist Travel New Twins Ryndam Maasdam Comfort with Economy Holland-America Line - featuring a great design by the Dutch gra...
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1950s Dutch Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Lake Biwa Japan Bus Tour Nippon Midcentury
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Lake Biwa in Japan advertising group trips to the swimming lake by comfortable tour bus featuring a smiling lad...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster General Dynamics Electrodynamics Atomic Energy Map Light
By Erik Nitsche
Located in London, GB
Original vintage General Dynamics poster by the illustrator, typographer and graphic designer Erik Nitsche (1908-1998) promoting Electrodynamic...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Les Vignobles d'Alsace Vineyards French Wine Map Rhine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster promoting French wines - Les vignobles d'Alsace Diffuse par le Centre d'information du vin d'Alsace Colmar-France / The Vineyards of Alsace Distri...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Montreal The Paris Of North America Fly TCA Air Canada
Located in London, GB
Original vintage air travel poster - Montreal the Paris of North America Fly TCA Trans-Canada Air Lines - featuring a great illustration depicting a city view showing people at a covered terrace restaurant with a carriage and a policeman on a horse by the trees and buildings and a hill in the distance, all lit up by a decorative street light...
Category
1950s Canadian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Rich Harvest Of Flax Belarus USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster featuring an illustration of a lady in a field holding a bunch of flax plants in front of other farm workers behind her, pulling up the flax...
Category
1950s Belarusian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Service To Industry Brick Making British Railways Train
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways poster - Service to Industry Brick Making - featuring industrial artwork by the English painter Charles Cundall (1...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Tom And Jerry (1955)
Located in London, GB
Tom And Jerry (1955)
Original US One Sheet (27 X 41 Inches)
This vibrant Cinemascope stock sheet showcases the timeless antics of Hanna-Barbera's beloved cat and mouse duo. Designed...
Category
1950s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Fantastic Collection of 8 Original and Rare Mexican Wrestling Movie Posters
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this Fantastic Set of 8 original and rare Mexican Wrestling Movie Posters from 1950-1960, with the most iconic Mexican wrestling icon Santo, Blue Demon...
Category
1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1959
Located in Devon, GB
A sultry Elizabeth Taylor smoulders on this extremely rare and seductive Japanese B2 poster for the original release of MGM's 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' in Japan. In a legendary pairing...
Category
1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Recruitment Poster Join The Regular Army Scottish Piper
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Army recruitment poster - It's a real man's life Join the Regular Army - featuring a Scottish Regiment soldier of the Scots Guards in traditional Scottish ta...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Not of This Earth' Original Us One Sheet Movie Poster by Albert Kallis, 1957
By Albert Kallis
Located in Devon, GB
A Classic US one sheet poster for the 1957 B-movie thriller 'Not Of This Earth,' one of the earliest sci-fi movies made by prolific low-budget producer/director Roger Corman in what ...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Olivetti Graphika Typewriter Design Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Graphika typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting letters of the alphabet on typewriter keys...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
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Paper
The Tales of Hoffmann
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for The Tales of Hoffmann 1951.
This film was directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and stars Moira Shearerand Robert Rounseville.
This po...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Plane Travel Poster Fly TWA Jetstream Airline Frank Soltesz
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Trans World Airlines - Fly TWA Jetstream - featuring a stunning design by the notable poster artist Frank Soltesz (1898-1972) depicting...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Ski Travel Poster St Moritz Piz Nair Hausamann Modernist Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster for St Moritz Piz Nair Schweiz Suisse Switzerland Svizzera featuring a fantastic modernist design by Wolfgang Hausamann (1914-1994) depicting a red...
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1950s Swiss Modern Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Travel Poster Austria Love Ski Poles Hofmann Snow
By Walter Hofmann
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport and skiing travel poster for Austria. Great design depicting a fun and romantic image of a pair of ski poles leaning into each other with the faces of a smiling man and lady on the handles at the top, the lady featuring a love heart shaped mouth with her eyes closed and the pole straps wrapped around each other like a couple hugging...
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1950s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Audrey Hepburn 'Funny Face' Original Vintage British Quad Movie Poster, 1957
Located in Devon, GB
With the quippy tagline 'Audrey's Hep!' (jazz slang for a real cool cat), an effervescent Audrey Hepburn takes centre stage on this exceedingly rare British Quad poster for the origi...
Category
1950s British Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
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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