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Posters For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1890s
Original Antique Advertising Poster A La Place Clichy Sumer Season Fashion Paris
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the Parisian department store A La Place Clichy promoting its special fashion Summer Sale on Monday 1 April - A La...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Old Mural Countrycore Pull-Down Wallchart Scenery with Cobras Snake Poster Print
Located in Berghuelen, DE
An old rollable wall chart depicting a fighting scenery of two cobras and a third snake arriving in the background. Colorful print on paper reinforced with canvas. Published around t...
Category
1920s German Country Vintage Posters
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Workplace Motivation Poster Teamwork Means Goals Football Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage workplace motivational poster - Teamwork means goals! Combined effort seldom loses Join in Help win Be in Bill Jones - featuring a d...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Shall We Be More Tender with Our Dollar" Vintage WWI 2nd Liberty Loan Poster
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This original WWI poster was issued as part of the Second Liberty Loan run and dates to 1917. The poster depicts a young soldier holding an American flag in one hand and his uniformed hat in the other. Next to him, a sailor holds a leaflet outstretched toward the viewer. The leaflet is printed with an emblem of the Statue of Liberty and says “We Depend On You.” At the top of the poster is a quote by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, “Shall we be more tender with our dollars than we are with the lives of our sons?” The quote is printed in white block letters on a red field. Below, the poster encourages viewers to “Buy A United States Government Bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917” in white block letters on a blue field. The poster was printed for the U.S. Treasury by Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co. in Chicago.
The poster encourages Americans to help with the war effort by purchasing bonds to finance the war. Each of the four Liberty Loan campaigns (two in 1917, two in 1918) and the Victory Loan campaign of early 1919 aimed for rapid subscription in the loan and bond programs, to generate quick funding of the war effort. Subscribing to the bonds became a symbol of patriotic duty in the United States and introduced the idea of financial securities to many citizens for the first time.
Working Americans could buy bonds...
Category
1910s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Winter In Spain Malaga Balearic Islands Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster - L'hiver en Espagne / Winter in Spain - featuring a stunning Art Deco design depicting two people wearing backpacks, one holding a walking stick, stan...
Category
1920s Spanish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Weiluc Chocolate Vinay Poster Very Large
Located in New York, NY
Weiluc chocolat vinay poster
Great condition
Framed (frame is not in photo)
Category
Early 1900s Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Harvard Radios vs. Princeton Aviators Vintage Football Poster, circa 1918
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a very scarce WWI Work Relief Fund poster featuring the Harvard Radios competing against the Princeton Aviators. The game, held on November 23, 1918, was a benefit football game to raise money for the war effort.
The poster dynamically depicts two football players mid-action. Below, the names of the teams are printed in yellow, with the date, location of the game, and ticket information printed in contrasting white. The United War Work Campaign’s logo is printed at bottom center. The logo is composed of a black star and the number 7, with the text “United War Work Campaign” encircling the star in a yellow ring. The poster was illustrated by the artist J. Liello. His signature is printed in stone, visible on the left side of the composition.
The following was written about the match in the November 23, 1918 issue of The New York Times: “Today marks the climax of the most irregular football season the gridiron sport has ever known… Here in New York there will be an unusually attractive football bill. First of all the war fund benefit at the Polo Grounds...
Category
1910s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique War Bond Poster Kriegsanleihe War Loan Soldier WWI Austria
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war bond poster for the 3rd War Loan featuring an illustration by the Viennese artist Erwin Puchinger (1875-1944) depict...
Category
1910s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Firmit Washing Powder Soap Girl Cat Laundry
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Firmit washing powder and soap cleaners featuring a great image of a girl in a red dress and blue apron with a red r...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Underground Poster The Londoner's Transport Throughout The Ages
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster promoting London Overground and London Underground public transport services - The Londoner's Transport Throughout the Ages - by the notable artist and poster designer Richard T. Cooper (1884-1957), who worked for the Underground Group from 1924 to 1935. Fantastic design featuring colorful historic illustrations showing Some of the Means of transport in London from A.D. 327 to 1927 with stylized text below, starting with Shank's Pony (walking) and a Roman Litter...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Luchon Pyrenees Orleans Midi Railways Soubie Art
By Roger Soubie
Located in London, GB
Original antique railway travel poster by the French poster artist Roger Soubie (1898-1984) for the Orleans and Midi Railways Luchon Queen of the Pyrenees ...
Category
1920s Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Northumberland Holidays Rail Travel Map Golf Roman Wall
Located in London, GB
Original antique train travel poster issued by NER North Eastern Railway - Northumberland for the Holidays Coast Dale & Borderland Ancient Castles & The Roman Wall - featuring a pictorial map illustration by the English artist Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965) depicting an aerial view over North East England with buildings, roads, rivers and hills and various places of interest including The Cheviots (the Cheviot Hills range of uplands on the Anglo-Scottish border...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Calcutta Kolkata India Eastern Bengal Railway
Located in London, GB
Original antique Asia travel poster for Mullick Ghat Calcutta / Kolkata in India featuring artwork by the British artist Dorothy Newsome (1900-1980) showing people, some families and children socialising and washing on the ghats, the steps leading down to the Hooghly River...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1926 Art Deco Publicity Poster by Erberto Carboni
Located in Weesp, NL
This rare 1926 publicity poster designed by Erberto Carboni is a captivating piece of early 20th-century advertising art. Created to promote the Boschi Luigi & F.lli (Brothers) brand of tomato preserves, the poster stands as an iconic example of the vibrant visual language that defined Italian advertising during the early days of modern graphic design.
Erberto Carboni was a renowned Italian designer, recognized for his bold use of color and minimalistic yet impactful compositions. His work was instrumental in shaping modern advertising in Italy, contributing significantly to the fields of graphic design and corporate identity. Born in 1899, Carboni became famous for his sleek, futuristic designs, which perfectly encapsulated the optimism and modernity of the post-war period. In this 1926 poster...
Category
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Wood, Paper
Original Antique Wwi Poster 7 Austrian War Loan Osterreich Kriegsanleihe Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One war bond poster for the 7th Austrian War Loan draw / Zeichnet 7. Oesterr. Kriegsanleihe featuring a Silhouette of a soldier...
Category
1910s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Straits China Japan By P&O Cruise Ship Travel To Asia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise ship travel poster to Asia - Straits China Japan by P&O - featuring a stunning design depicting a man wearing a wide brimmed hat and pushing people sitting on...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Political Propaganda Poster Greet The Dawn Give Labour Chance
Located in London, GB
Original vintage political propaganda poster for the 1929 United Kingdom general election - Greet the Dawn: Give Labour It's Chance - featuring an illustration of a man with his arms...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Cunard Europe America Aquitania Ocean Liner Ship
By Odin Rosenvinge
Located in London, GB
Original antique cruise travel advertising poster for Cunard Line Europe-America featuring a stunning illustration by Odin Rosenvinge (1880-1957) of a f...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original French color lithograph poster for Saxoléïne by Jules Chéret, 1900
By Jules Chéret
Located in North Bergen, NJ
Original vintage French Art Nouveau color lithograph poster for Saxoléïne by Jules Chéret, 1900 (green dress)
Catalogue raisonné: Lucy Broido, "The Posters of Jules Chéret," entry 9...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Posters
Original Antique Poster Transport Maritimes Algeria South America Cruise Travel
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster advertising cruise holidays to Algeria in north Africa from Marseilles France and to Dakar Bresil / Brazil and La Plata South America with the General ...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Victorian French Original Advertising Poster, "Brasserie Schneider"
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
19th Century French Original Advertising Poster, "Brasserie Schneider"
Fabrique de boissons gazeuses Specialite de sodas
Soft drinks factory Specialty sodas
This is an original po...
Category
Early 1900s French Early Victorian Antique Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Antique Poster WWI War Loan For Victory Russian Cossack Cavalry Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One poster - War Loan The aim of the loan is to speed victory over the enemy Take part in the loan subscription without delay - featuring the stylised lett...
Category
1910s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Antique Jung Koch Quentell Rollable Wall Chart European Mole Cricket Gryllotapla
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A cottagecore antique pull-down wall chart by Jung Koch Quentell showing the life cycle of an European mole cricket (gryllotalpa gryllotalpa). Published...
Category
Early 20th Century German Country Posters
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paper
Original Antique Drink Poster J. Petit Laroche & Co Bordeaux Wine France Medoc
Located in London, GB
Original antique drink advertising poster for J. Petit Laroche & Co Bordeaux Societe des Entrepots de Moulis Medoc featuring the title text of the wine makers in bold and rest of the...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Nice Reine De La Cote D'Azur French Riviera Travel Sport
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel advertising poster for Nice Reine de la Cote D'Azur Fetes Sports Tourisme / Queen of the French Riviera Holidays Sports Tourism featuring scenic artwork by Pi...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster French Infantry In Battle WWI Hindenburg Line Europe Map
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One poster - French Infantry In Battle / L'Infanterie Francais Dans La Bataille - featuring an image of a French soldier in uniform wearing a winter coat a...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Franco Canadian Allan Shipping Line Havre
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the Ligne Allan Service Postal Franco Canadien Havre Canada. Great design depicting an ocean liner a...
Category
1910s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Car and Motorcycle Racing Poster for RAMCH Royal Automoto Club
Located in London, GB
Original vintage car and motorcycle racing poster for the Royal Auto-Moto Club du Hainaut RAMCH in Tournai. Fantastic Art Deco image featuring five racing drivers wearing goggles and...
Category
1920s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Liberal Party An Awkward Reminder Food Tax Tariff Reform
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election propaganda poster issued by the Liberal Party - An Awkward Reminder - featuring an illustration of two men on a street, one wearing a suit and top hat with a sandwich board sign marked We Want Tariff Reform...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
1940s Signed Lithograph of Maurice Chevalier by French artist Charles Kiffer
Located in New York, NY
A lithograph from the 1940s of the singer and actor Maurice Chevalier . The artist was Charles Kiffer . Kiffer began to draw and paint caricatures of actors while attending the Ecole...
Category
Early 20th Century French Beaux Arts Posters
Materials
Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Carnival Poster Quodlibet Masken-Ball Casino Basel Masked Ball
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Quodlibet Masken-Ball / Masquerade Masked Ball at the Basel lent carnival in Switzerland held at the Casino-Basel on the evening of Monday...
Category
1920s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Le Lac Majeur Dijon Vallorbe Le Simplon PLM Rail
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster for Lake Maggiore / Le Lac Majeur par Dijon Vallorbe Le Simplon issued by the Chemins de Fer Paris Lyon Mediterranee PLM railway featuring a scenic coa...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Konarak See India Bengal Nagpur Railway The Black Pagoda
Located in London, GB
Original antique railway poster for Konarak See India Bengal Nagpur Railway featuring stunning artwork of The Black Pagoda with ruins in the fo...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Steady Does It Save Regularly Buy Savings Certificates
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster - Steady does it Save regularly Buy Savings Certificates at any bank post office or through a savings association - featuring a dynamic illustration of worker...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'For Heaven's Sake' Original Vintage Movie Poster by Eric Rohman, Swedish, 1926
By Eric Rohman
Located in Devon, GB
Printed in stunning stone lithography, this extremely rare poster was designed by prolific poster artist Eric Rohman for the original Swedish release of the action-packed 1926 American silent comedy 'For Heaven's Sake,' starring Harold Lloyd - one of the biggest stars of the silent era. After several years at Pathé, Lloyd made his debut at Paramount with this delightful slapstick classic, in which his trademark go-getting 'glasses' character appears as Uptown Boy J. Harold Manners, a millionaire playboy who falls for a Downtown Girl. With a dazzling finale featuring a double-decker bus careering through the city streets, the comedy of thrills was one of Lloyd's most successful films and the 12th highest grossing film of the silent era.
Rohman's whimsical lunar poster design was inspired by a charming scene in which Harold woos his Downtown Girl (Jobyna Ralston) by the romantic light of a crescent moon - which is then revealed to be part of a neon sign for Crescent Laundry! Lushly printed in lapis blue, black and a contrasting orange, the enchanting Art Deco style artwork pictures the loved up...
Category
1920s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Henri Cassiers Fishermen Belgium Dutch Harbour
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster for Belgium featuring an illustration by Henri Cassiers (1858-1944) depicting three fishermen standing to...
Category
Early 1900s Belgian Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Renault Billancourt Seine Classic Car Models
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the French automobile manufacturer Renault featuring a great design showing different car models produced at their Billancourt (Seine) factory...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique French Poster Banque Maritime Bank France Navy Emprunt National
By Ernest-Louis Lessieux
Located in London, GB
Original antique French poster - Emprunt National 1920 Banque Maritime 28 Rue de Laborde Paris / National Loan 1920 Maritime Bank - featuring a design by Er...
Category
1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Swiss Skiing Poster Adelboden Switzerland Ski Jump Winter Sport
By Willy Trapp
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing and winter sport travel poster for the Swiss alpine village in the Bernese Oberland region - Adelboden Suisse 1400m - featuring a dynamic design by Willy Trap...
Category
1920s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique War Poster Our Day British Red Cross Society WWI Tom Purvis
By Tom Purvis
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One poster - Our Day To Help at the Front our wounded from Home & Overseas - issued by The British Red Cross Society & Order of St John for an event on 21 October 1915. Great artwork by Tom Purvis (1888-1959) showing a group of men in different military uniform from the armed forces looking towards the viewer, one with bandages around his head, another wearing a sling and one wearing an eye patch...
Category
1910s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Event Poster Duisburg Art Deco Catholic Journeymens Association
Located in London, GB
Original vintage event poster - To Duisburg on the Rhine for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Catholic Journeymen's Association / Nach Dui...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Wroclaw Festival Week Breslauer Festwoche
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the Breslauer Festwoche Sport Spiel Kunst Festwiese im Scheitniger Park / Wroclaw Festival Week Sport Games Art Fairground in the Szczytnicki ...
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1910s German Jugendstil Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Russian Anti Tsarist Civil War Poster Deceived Brothers Apsit
Located in London, GB
Original antique Russian anti-Tsarist Civil War propaganda poster - To the Deceived Brothers (In the White Guard Trenches) First Message from Demyan Bedny / Обманутым братьям (В белогвардейских окопах) Первое послание Демьяна Бедного - featuring an illustration by one of the founders and leading masters of the Soviet political revolutionary poster Alexander Apsit (1880-1944) depicting a giant proletarian man in a red tunic...
Category
1910s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Navy Week Portsmouth HMS Nelson Victory Ship
Located in London, GB
Original vintage maritime event advertising poster for the Navy Week Portsmouth 1-8 August featuring an illustration depicting the Royal Navy battlesh...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Framed French Art Deco Panel showing a Scene with Elephants in a Jungle Pattern
Located in Ulm, DE
Jungle scene with elephants, framed
Dimensions:
Width: 108 cm
Height: 74 cm
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Posters
Materials
Wood
Large French Art Deco Movie Poster of Stella Dargis Poster by Dola
By Georges Dola
Located in Chicago, IL
This original 1931 lithograph poster depicts Stella Dargis, a French actress know for the films La Merveilleuse Journée (1929) and Le Juif Errant (1926). The actress peeks coyly from...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Posters
Materials
Acrylic, Pine, Paper
Original Antique WWI Poster Reality Of War At Sea Ship Submarine Guerre Sur Mer
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One poster - The Realities of War at Sea / Les Realites de la Guerre Sur Mer - depicting images of military ships and submarines with a maritime map...
Category
1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Affiche on Board, Embossed, for Horrockses Long Clothes, Ca 1910
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: Horrockses Flannelettes (Grand Prix, London 1908) See "Horrockses" on Selvedge.
Very rare vintage board.
Small Lithographic affiche on boar...
Category
Early 20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Lithograph on Board, Dutch Promotion for Paint, ca.1935
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: ALSA speciaale verfstof : voor gordijnen storen en kantwerken. 'bestand tegen wassching en licht'
This promotion board shows a lady in Art Deco style washing a textile in t...
Category
Early 20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Triumph Cycles Coventry Bicycle Art Design
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Triumph Cycles Coventry featuring an illustration of a gentleman in a suit and cap riding a bicycle on a country road in front of another cycl...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Horse Race Jockey Equestrian Sport Artwork Finish Post
Located in London, GB
Original antique equestrian sport poster for horse racing featuring an illustration by the painter Albert Mantelet (Albert Mantelet-Goguet; 1858-1958) depicting jockeys riding horses...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique French Advertising Poster The Frisco Theatre Play Louis Galice
By Louis Galice
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for a play - The Frisco - featuring artwork by the French artist Louis Galice (1864-1935) of a lady in a fashionable red dress and white hat carry...
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Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Isle Of Man For Happy Holidays Golf Douglas Bay
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Isle of Man for Happy Holidays - featuring a great design depicting people enjoying the scenic view over Douglas Bay with sailing boats and steamship...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Federal Building Chicago Rapid Transit Illinois
By Willard Frederic Elmes
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Federal Building by the Chicago Rapid Transit - featuring great artwork by Willard Frederick Elms (1900-1956) depicting silhouettes of people walking...
Category
1920s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique War Era Advertising Poster Austrian War Welfare Exhibition WWI
By Josef V. Diveky
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One era advertising poster - Offizielle Kriegsfursorge Ausstellung Kriegsgraphik Osterreichisches Museum fur Kunst und Industrie Stubenring 5 / Official War Welfare Exhibition War Graphics at the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (opened 1864; now the Museum of Applied Arts MAK) from 10 March to 22 April. Great design featuring an illustration of a warrior in a helmet holding a spear and shield with his shadow against the yellow background, the bold stylised title text above and on a diagonal box below with further information on the side. Artwork by the poster designer and theatre artist Jozsef Diveky / Joseph Diveky (1887-1951), a member of the Wiener Werkstatte group (the Vienna Workshop...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Poland Krakow Krakau Ancient Royal Town Polska
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster for Krakau / Krakow in Poland featuring artwork of the historic 14th century royal Wawel Castle in the medieval old town (a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...
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1920s Polish Vintage Posters
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Paper
Large University Anatomical Chart “Muscles” by Turner
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Large university anatomical chart “Muscles” by Turner
W&A K Johnston’s Charts of Anatomy and Physiology by Dr William Turner, Professor of Anatomy University of Edinburgh/A J Nystrom & Co US Agents Chicago
This is Plate 3, Muscles, by Turner, it is large lithograph set...
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Early 20th Century Steampunk Posters
Materials
Linen
Original Vintage 1920s Poster by Anita Parkhurst - The Friendly Road - YWCA
By Anita Parkhurst Willcox
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster entitled The Friendly Road published by and for the Bureau of Social Education National Board of the Young Women Christian As...
Category
1920s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Antique and Vintage Posters
Add a welcome personal touch to your space and tie your distinctive interior scheme together by introducing antique and vintage posters to any and every room of your home.
In the late 19th century, following the advent of text-heavy posters printed from woodblocks for use in taverns and shop windows, hand-drawn poster art had become commonplace in regions such as France, England and the United States. Well-known illustrators were commissioned to produce decorative posters to advertise political campaigns, theatrical events, books, household goods and other items. Early poster artists used a printmaking technique called lithography, which sees drawings or paintings created on a stone (or metal) surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The image is eventually affixed to the surface by means of a chemical reaction, and ink adheres to certain sections of the surface while non–image areas are made to repel the ink.
If you wanted a color lithograph in the early days, the number of stones prepared had to match the number of colors you commissioned for the poster. French painter Jules Chéret, widely known as the father of the modern poster, designed some of history's most popular lithographic posters that featured color. Today, Chéret’s art is highly collectible, along with original works by Czech painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha, whose posters advertising theatrical productions helped define Art Nouveau.
Over time, poster artists transitioned to more advanced techniques. Using silkscreens, woodblocks and photolithography, painters and illustrators printed larger quantities at a faster rate.
If you’ve finally tracked down that vintage movie poster, mid-century modern promotional travel poster or other work and you’re looking to find out if it is valuable, distinguishing between an original poster and a reproduction can be complicated. A professional appraiser can work with you on factors such as rarity, assessing the physical condition of your poster and authenticating your piece. For now, take care of your new acquisition because conserving posters is essential in helping them retain their value. A practical conservation method is to have the work mounted on archival, acid-free paper and thin artist’s canvas, then enclosing it in a sturdy frame. (And here is a primer on how to hang wall art, be it arranged gallery-style or otherwise.)
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