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Posters For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1920s
Original Vintage Warning Poster Silence Noise Is Harmful Police Art Deco Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage health and safety poster featuring an Art Deco design depicting a policeman in uniform looking at the viewer and hol...
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1930s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
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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Paper
"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 Vintage Winter Sport Travel Poster Ski Austria Paul Kirnig Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport travel poster for Austria featuring a dynamic Art Deco design by the notable Austria artist and poster designer Paul Kirnig (1891-1959) depicting a skie...
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1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
Film Poster for, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (En Midsommarnatts Drom)
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish film poster from the first release of the film in Sweden in 1935 Less than five known surviving examples. This film starred James Cagney, Dick Powell and Olivia de H...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Posters
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Paper
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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Paper
Of Mice and Men
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 19339 adventure drama romance Of Mice and Men.
This film starred Lon Chaney, Burgess Meredith and Betty Field and was directed by Lewis Milestone.
This...
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1930s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage LNER Train Travel Poster Whitby Ancient Port Modern Resort
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London & North Eastern Railway train travel poster - Whitby An Ancient Port and Modern Resort It's Quicker by Rail - featuring artwork by the English artist and post...
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1930s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
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
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster In The Near East Cruise Ship Sailing Boats Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster featuring a colourful scenic artwork titled In The Near East painted by Jean Jacques Midderigh (1877-1970) showing men in rowi...
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1930s Dutch Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Ready for Love
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1934 comedy romance Ready for Love.
This film starred Ida Lupino and Richard Arlen and was directed by Marion Gering.
This lobby card is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in an Obeche wood frame with card mounts and UV plexiglass. The Size given is before framing. The piece would be shipped boxed...
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1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Election Poster Support National Government Team Work Football
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport themed 1935 General Election political propaganda poster for the British Conservative Party - It's Team Work That Counts Support Natio...
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1930s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Vacuum Oil Company Gargoyle 1931 Classic Car Plane Ship
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Vacuum Oil Company featuring a stunning Art Deco style design of a truck and classic car driving in front of industrial buildings with a steam ship at sea below a bi-plane in front of a map of the world as a sun in the background set within a decorative frame border, gargoyles perched on sides and the date 1931 below. Founded in 1866 by the inventors Mathew Erwing (1815-1874) and Hiram Bond Everest (1830-1913), the Vacuum Oil Company produced the Gargoyle steam cylinder motor oil brand; in 1931 the company merged with the Standard Oil...
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1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Abschiedswalzer / Farewell Waltz / Avskedsvalsen, Swedish Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish movie poster for the German 1934 film Abschiedswalzer the film about the 19th century Polish composer Frederic Chopin. The film was di...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Posters
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Duco Dulox Enamel Paint Italy Ducotone
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Duco Dulox enamel paints - Prodotti insuperabili totalmente Italiani / Unsurpassed, totally Italian products - featuring a great illustration ...
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1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster For Austria Vorarlberg Autriche Osterreich Alps Travel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Austria Vorarlberg / Autriche Osterreich featuring a smiling lady in traditional dress holding flowers with red and white ribbons representing the Austrian flag...
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1930s Austrian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Duco Enamel Art Deco Painter Lacquer France
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Duco a quick dry enamel lacquer Already Dry! / Duco Laque-Email A Sechage Rapide Deja Sec! Great design featuring a smiling painter sitting ba...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / Blanche Neige
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .The artwork on this poster is unique to the films Belgian release...
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1930s Belgian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Monte Generoso Lago Di Lugano Switzerland Koller
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Monte Generoso featuring a stunning view of the Alps by Louis Koller (1904-1978), depicting the old Hotel Kulm and Ristorante Vetta restaurant buil...
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1930s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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
Materials
Paper
Three Texas Steers
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for John Wayne's 1939 Western Three Texas Steers.
This film was directed by George Sherman.
This piece is conse...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Advertising CSD Czechoslovak State Railways Czech
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising the CSD Ceskoslovenske Statni Drahy Czechoslovak State Railways featuring stunning scenic artwork depicting a cable car on a mountain with ...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
She Done Him Wrong
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1933 comedy romance She Done Him Wrong.
This film starred May West and Cary Grant and was directed by Lowell Sherman.
This lobby card is conservation...
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1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage 1936 Travel Advertising Poster for 7 Days London by Hamburg Sud
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Seven Day London Travel with M.S. Monte Rosa in August and September 1936 from RM 65 full catering included Hambu...
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1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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
Materials
Paper
Bengal Tiger / La Tigre del Bengala
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1936 action adventure film Bengal Tiger.
This 1936 film was directed by Louis King. The cast includes Barton MacLane, June Travis and Warren Hul...
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1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
39 Steps
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 crime thriller starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll.
It is very difficult to ...
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1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Moulay Idriss Morocco Meknes Zerhoun PLM Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway for Moulay Idriss The Holy City Of Djebel Zerhoun featuring a colourful ...
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1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
P. Bellenger French Favor Cycles Original Poster, Circa 1937
Located in Bridgeport, CT
French poster depicting a mechanic holding a simple bicycle in one hand and a motorcycle in the other with the words "de la belle mecanique" (beautiful mechanic). Designed by P. Bell...
Category
1930s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Posters
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Poster Jojo Festival For All Clown Dance Music Show Cabaret Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the JoJo Fest fur Alle - the Jojo Festival for Everyone on 4-5 February 1933 at the Rhein-Neckar Halle with Yoyo Girls the European Dance Champion K.R. Weinlein M. Seidel Erwin Schmieder and his Orchestra 22 Show booths Cabaret Art...
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1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Everywhere You Go Sure Of Shell Thames Cookham Steggles
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Shell poster from their Everywhere You Go You Can Be Sure of Shell advertising campaign featuring a great painting by Walter James Steggl...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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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Paper
Original Vintage Poster New Zealand Apples NZ Flag Fruit Food Advertising Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage food advertising poster for New Zealand Apples featuring a colourful design showing fresh red apples on the branch of a tree behind the ...
Category
1930s New Zealand Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Bulgaria Balkans Angel Tilov Art Deco Bulgariya
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Bulgaria featuring a scenic view of a steam train travelling through a tunnel on a rocky cliff above a river with a bridge linking a riverside town to the railway and trees and mountains in the distance. Artwork by the award winning Bulgarian watercolour...
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1930s Bulgarian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"The Footloose Heiress" Original US Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US movie poster for 1937 comedy romance The Footloose Heiress directed by William Clemens and starring Craig Reynolds, Ann Sheridan and Anne Nagel. This size poster is known...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Original Vintage Soviet Cinema Poster Minin and Pozharsky Stenberg Brothers
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet cinema poster - Минин и Пожарский / Minin and Pozharsky - featuring artwork by the notable Soviet artist Vladimir Stenberg (1899-1982) depicting a man standin...
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1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Norway Nature's Wonderland State Railway Travel Hiking
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Norway Nature's Wonderland featuring a scenic image of a couple on top of a hill pointing to trees and mountains in the distance with the stylized ...
Category
1930s Norwegian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Hungary Danube Tourist Cruises Magyar
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Magyar Kir. Folyam-es Tengerhajozasi R.T. Turista-Es udulo Hajojaratok a Dunan / Hungarian Ex. River and sea navigation R.T. tourist and re...
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1930s Hungarian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Secret Agent" Original British Advertisment Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement from The Cinema, 29th April 1936.
Owing to mass paper recycling during World War II, no British film poster on this title is known to have surviv...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
French School Teacher Educational Paintings "La Pipe", circa 1930s
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Painted by a school teacher in rural Hautes Pyrenees, France. Based on the Toto, Lili, Rene and Jojo French educational stories. It is likely that the s...
Category
1930s French Folk Art Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original Vintage Poster Graf Zeppelin Schreibers Models Junkers Flugzeug G38
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster advertising Schreibers Technische Modellierbogen / Technical Air Modelling kits featuring images of a Graf Zeppelin marked DLZ 127 and Junkers Flugzeug G38 aircraft on a blue background with the measurements and details on the side along with two other models listed, the Dornier-Flugschiff / airship and the Turbinen-Schnelldampfer Bremen Europe steamship with a note that many other models are available - und viele andere - all are described as being Leicht zusammenzubauen, genau garbeitet. Viele Tausende verkauft. Hier zu haben / Easy to put together, made precisely. Many thousands sold. Available to purchase here. Founded in 1831 by Jakob Ferdinand...
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1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Gid, Original Vintage Poster, Sahara Exhibition, Ethnography, Touareg Camel 1934
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for a Sahara Exhibition created by Raymond Gid in 1934.
Artist: Raymond Gid (1905-2000)
Title: Exposition du Sahara – Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle - M...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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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Paper
1930s Original French Loterie Nationale Lithograpic Poster
Located in Hellerup, DK
Original vintage ''Loterie Nationale" poster from 1930s where profits from the lottery went to charity organisations, which for example provided ambulances and built hospitals.
The ...
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1930s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Somerset GWR Great Western Railway Travel West Country
Located in London, GB
Original vintage GWR Great Western Railway poster for Somerset featuring a scenic countryside view by Herbert Alker Tripp (1883-1954) of trees behind and flowers on the grass in front a traditional thatched cottage with a fox hunter wearing a smart red jacket and leaning back to another horse rider behind him, walking around the corner with their dogs along a path next to a hill leading into the distance with chickens in front of the house in the foreground and the information text with the GWR logo below - Somerset England Travel information etc., from associated British & Irish Railways...
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1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Vallombrosa Saltino Tuscany Forest Railway Travel ENIT
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Vallombrosa-Saltino issued by the Italian tourist board ENIT (Ente Nazionale Italiano per il Turismo) and Italian State Railways featuring scenic a...
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1930s Italian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Kreuzeck Bahn Garmisch Partenkirchen Skiing Cable Car
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster promoting the Kreuzeckbahn Garmisch-Partenkirchen cable car service (opened 1926) in the alps mountain range of Bavaria Germany. Great design depicting a view...
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1930s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster 'Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations', 'c. 1938'
By Tom Purvis
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage poster 'Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations', (c. 1938)
This is an original poster from 1938 by Tom Purvis, this poster is also part of the collection of t...
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1930s Australian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Gambling with Souls / The Vice Racket
Located in London, GB
Original American movie poster for the 1936 exploitation film. This is a very rare poster only a few are known to have survived. This 1936 exploitation film was directed by Dwain Esp...
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1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Fly Imperial Airways India Australia
By David Lee Theyre Elliott
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Fly by Imperial Airways India in three days Australia in eight days - featuring the stylised bold text over red map shapes of the UK and ...
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1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Lago Di Garda Lake Riva Torbole Italy Sailing Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ENIT travel poster for Lake Garda / Lago Di Garda Riva Torbole in Trentino Italy featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the Italian art...
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1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Royal Mail Line Atlantis Cruises Istanbul Turkey
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Royal Mail Line Atlantis Cruises featuring artwork by the British poster designer Percy Padden (1885-1965) depicting a smiling boy with a monkey in the foreground and a view over trees to the city and sea below the blue sky background, the text on the margin below. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company America House Cockspur Street...
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1930s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
'Hold Your Man' Original Vintage Movie Poster by Eric Rohman, Swedish, 1933
By Eric Rohman
Located in Devon, GB
A splendid stone lithograph poster with bold Art Deco artwork by noted Swedish designer Eric Rohman for the Swedish release of MGM's 1933 pre-Code rom...
Category
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
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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Paper
Original Vintage Poster La Grande Source Vittel Train 5 Hours From Paris Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway poster advertising summer travel by train from 25 May to 25 September to the spa resort town of Vittel in north-east France in five hours from Paris - La Gra...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
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Paper
Antique and Vintage Posters
Add a welcome personal touch to your space and tie your distinctive interior scheme together by introducing antique and vintage posters to any and every room of your home.
In the late 19th century, following the advent of text-heavy posters printed from woodblocks for use in taverns and shop windows, hand-drawn poster art had become commonplace in regions such as France, England and the United States. Well-known illustrators were commissioned to produce decorative posters to advertise political campaigns, theatrical events, books, household goods and other items. Early poster artists used a printmaking technique called lithography, which sees drawings or paintings created on a stone (or metal) surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The image is eventually affixed to the surface by means of a chemical reaction, and ink adheres to certain sections of the surface while non–image areas are made to repel the ink.
If you wanted a color lithograph in the early days, the number of stones prepared had to match the number of colors you commissioned for the poster. French painter Jules Chéret, widely known as the father of the modern poster, designed some of history's most popular lithographic posters that featured color. Today, Chéret’s art is highly collectible, along with original works by Czech painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha, whose posters advertising theatrical productions helped define Art Nouveau.
Over time, poster artists transitioned to more advanced techniques. Using silkscreens, woodblocks and photolithography, painters and illustrators printed larger quantities at a faster rate.
If you’ve finally tracked down that vintage movie poster, mid-century modern promotional travel poster or other work and you’re looking to find out if it is valuable, distinguishing between an original poster and a reproduction can be complicated. A professional appraiser can work with you on factors such as rarity, assessing the physical condition of your poster and authenticating your piece. For now, take care of your new acquisition because conserving posters is essential in helping them retain their value. A practical conservation method is to have the work mounted on archival, acid-free paper and thin artist’s canvas, then enclosing it in a sturdy frame. (And here is a primer on how to hang wall art, be it arranged gallery-style or otherwise.)
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