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Posters For Sale
Period: Mid-20th Century
Period: 1950s
Period: 1940s
To Have and Have Not
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1944 Film Noir To Have and Have Not.
This film starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and was directed by Howard Hawks.
This piece is conservation ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster American Airlines To New England McKnight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - American Airlines to New England - designed by one of the most renowned poster artists of the 20th century Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
'Breakfast at Tiffany's' Original Vintage US Lobby Card Movie Poster, 1961
Located in Devon, GB
Lobby Cards were designed for display in a cinema lobby to lure the movie-going public. Typically released in sets of 8, each card depicted a different scene from the film. This charming US lobby card for 'Breakfast At Tiffany's,' number 7 of the set, depicts Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly and George Peppard as Paul Varjak sipping coffee against a backdrop of Manhattan. Featuring a miniature version of Robert McGinnis' iconic artwork used for the US insert, the lobby cards offer a bit of Tiffany's magic at a more affordable price point than the larger and highly sought after US Campaign posters.
Holly Golightly would be Audrey Hepburn’s defining role, establishing her status as one of the greatest screen legends and style icons of all time. It seems unbelievable now that Truman Capote, author of the novella on which the movie was based, had his heart set on Marilyn Monroe for the part. Monroe pulled out of the running when her acting coach advised her not to play a lady of the night...
Category
1960s American Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Raw Deal
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for The 1948 Film Noir Raw Deal.
This film was directed by Anthony Mann and starred Dennis O'Keefe and Claire Trevor.
This poster is conservation linen backed...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Dick Tracy
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1945 action detective film Dick Tracy.
This film starred Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys and Mike Mazurki, and was directed by...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Big Shot / Le Caid
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster from the 1942 Film Noir.
These large French posters were designed to be pasted onto billboards throughout France, and...
Category
1940s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Swiss Travel Poster, Zurich Lakeside Garden
By Hugo Wetli
Located in New York, NY
Original 1960’s travel poster for the Zurich Lakeside Garden, with a design based on his painting by Hugo Wetli. Wetli (1916-1972) was a Swiss pa...
Category
1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Poster Pablo Picasso Pindare Engravings Cardinal
Located in London, GB
Original vintage art exhibition poster - Picasso Gravures Originales pour Illustrer la VIIIe Pythique de Pindare / Original Engravings to Illustrate Pi...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Guinness Chestnut Tree Irish Dry Stout Beer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Guinness poster - Under the spreading chestnut tree A glass of Guinness stood. The smith, a mightier man is he His Guinness d...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1958 drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
This film starred Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman and was directed by Richard Brooks.
This size poster would have...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Guinness Goodness Hat Irish Stout Beer Drink
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the iconic drink Guinness Irish stout beer - Goodness! Guinness! - featuring a fun design of a man wearing a blue suit and red tie lifting up ...
Category
1960s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Den Fine Mand, Large Original Silkscreen Poster by Bjørn Wiinblad, 1957
By T. T. Serigrafi, Bjørn Wiinblad
Located in Dorchester, MA
Bjørn Wiinblad designed this whimsical silkscreen poster for a 1957 performance of Molière's play "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" at the Det Ny Teater in Copenhagen. This original poster, showcasing Wiinblad's assured use of unexpected color, was printed by T.T. Serigrafi, Copenhagen.
Framed; on Karlit wood fiber–based board...
Category
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Set of (14) Vintage Anatomy Charts by American Map Co. - sold individually
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Set of (14) Vintage Anatomy Charts
American Map Co. - Circa 1950.
14 Total Charts - Sold Individually -( 14 available )
( discounted to buy as a set )
29" x 37" unfolded
9.5" x 12...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster The Story Map Of The West Indies Native Handicraft Motif
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster - The Story Map of the West Indies - featuring a colourful illustrated map of the islands located on the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean marking the islands, cities, sea passages and channels, and various places in the surrounding area from the skyscrapers in New York to Caracas in Venezuela, historical events including navy battles...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Seven Year Itch
Located in London, GB
Original 1955 US 20th century Fox photographic production still used to promote the romance, comedy film The Seven Year Itch. Directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, To...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Located in London, GB
Original candid photographic production still for the 1948 drama, adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
This film starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and was directed b...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Batman: The Movie
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for Leslie Martinson's 1966 Batman staring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin.
This is an original pass sheet poster used in Japan for the films...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Air France Art Deco National Clothing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Air France featuring a stunning Art Deco design with illustrations of people dressed in traditional costumes and national clothing from around the world - including a Spanish flamenco dancer, a Scottish bagpipe musician in a tartan kilt...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Party
Located in London, GB
Original 1968 style B film poster. The artwork is by Jack Davis (1924-2016)
This size poster was used for drive-ins and special displays. It was printed on a heavier paper stock and ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Zazie dans Le Metro
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1960 French New Wave film directed by Louis Malle and starring Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Vittorio Capriolo and Yvonn...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Illustrated Map Poster Railway Travel Normandy Brittany Paris
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster featuring a colourful Illustrated Map of the State Railways Sea and Tourism Network / Carte Illustre des Chemins de Fer ...
Category
1930s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Intourist Travel Poster Hunting In Crimea Yalta Deer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet Intourist travel advertising poster - Hunting in Crimea Yalta - featuring a colourful arrow pointing down at the holiday resort city of Yalta on the Black Sea...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Rodi Rhodes Aphrodite ENIT Greece Erberto Carboni
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Rhodes / Rodi issued by the Italian State Travel Agency ENIT featuring a design by Erberto Carboni (1899-1984) depicting a photo of the ancient Aph...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Flirtation" Original US Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1934 Musical Romance.
This saucy poster showing a naked Jeanette Loff just snuck in before the Hays Code (mora...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Jung Koch Quentell Rollable Poster Print Wall Chart Trichina
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A traditional Jung Koch Quentell pull-down wall chart illustrating trichina (appearance and inner structure). Published by Lehrmittel Verlag, Duesseldorf. Colorful print on paper rei...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Country Posters
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paper
'Batman' Original Vintage Australian Daybill Movie Poster, 1966
Located in Devon, GB
"For the first time on the motion picture screen in color!" Printed in stunning stone lithography, this fabulously kitsch and colourful Australian Daybill...
Category
1960s Australian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Marlene Dietrich
Located in London, GB
Original studio portrait photograph of Marlene Dietrich 1938.
This piece is framed in a Sapele wood frame with acid free card mounts and UV Plexiglass.
The size given is before fram...
Category
1930s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Cuba Cigars Cuban Tobacco Tabaco Cubano
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Cuban Tobacco The best for its aroma and the beauty of the prints that accompany it / Tabaco Cubano El mejor por su aroma y por la belleza de ...
Category
1950s Cuban Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
From Russia with Love
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production for the second James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963) Staring Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi. This film was directed by Terence Young. This p...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Middle East Travel Poster Lebanese Way Lebanon Mountain Air
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Middle East travel poster for Lebanon - To The Cool Mountain Air The Lebanese Way - featuring scenic artwork of a path winding through th...
Category
1940s Lebanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Monster on the Campus
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for The 1958 science fiction horror film Monster on the Campus.
This film was directed by Jack Arnold and starred Arthur Franz and Joanna Moore.
This poster i...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Music Poster Bob Dylan Milton Glaser Psychedelic Design Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage music poster from the sixties psychedelic era featuring an iconic image of the influential musician Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimm...
Category
1960s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Propaganda Poster British Commonwealth Of Nations Together
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - The British Commonwealth of Nations Together - featuring a dynamic military illustration depicting a group of British Empire Common...
Category
1940s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Floating Lanterns Festival Miyazu Kyoto Japan Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising the Floating Lanterns festival and national dance contest in ?? Miyazu Kyoto on 15 August featuring a colo...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Accattone
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1962 drama Accattone.
This film starred Franco Citti, Franca Pasut and Adriana Asti.
The artwork on this poster is by Sandro Si...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Fratricidio Fratricide WWII Fascist War Propaganda Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage fascist Italian World War Two poster - Fratricidio! / Fratricide - featuring an Italian soldier wearing a torn and bloodied uniform and ...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Ski Sports Travel Poster This Winter Sun Valley Idaho
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sports travel poster - This Winter Sun Valley - featuring a great image of a smiling lady in a yellow and blue ski suit skiing down a snowy slope at speed wit...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow / Leri, Oggi, Domani
Located in London, GB
Oversized studio photograph from Leri, Oggi, Domani / Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, used for the films first French release in 1964.
This film was directed by Vittorio De Sica and s...
Category
1960s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"Two For The Road" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Very cool original Japanese film poster for Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney's, 1967
comedy. The artwork on this poster is unique to the Japanese release...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Olivetti Lettera 22 Typewriter Pintori Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting colourful l...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Science Fiction Film Poster Earth vs. the Flying Saucers Sci-Fi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage science fiction movie poster for Earth vs. The Flying Saucers / Les Soucoupes Volantes Attaquent directed by Fred F. Sear...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
La Notti Bianche / White Nights Original Italian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster for the 1957 drama, romance. Directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Posters
Walt Disney Presents the World's Greatest Shorts
Located in London, GB
This rare original British animation poster was designed to advertise Walt Disney shorts. In England posters were not produced for every short cartoon, ...
Category
1940s English Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
"U.S. Marines. Reserved for you!" Vintage WWII Marine Corps Recruitment Poster
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster, designed by Joe Richards. The poster, a color lithograph, was issued on November 28, 1941, less than 10 days before the a...
Category
1940s North American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Jung Koch Quentell Vintage Mural Wall Chart Poster Brown Hare Common Rabbit
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A countrycore Jung Koch Quentell pull-down wall chart showing the brown hair and the common rabbit. Used as teaching material in German schools. Colorful print on paper reinforced wi...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Country Posters
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Textile company "Giovanola" , Italy 1960s
Located in Ceglie Messapica, IT
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Textile company "Giovanola" , Italy 1960s
A beautiful 1960s original advertising poster. Manufactured in Italy for the italian from "Gerosa Pubbl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper, Canvas
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Pan Am The Orient By Clipper Rice Fields
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Asia travel poster for The Orient by Clipper Pan American World Airways The World's Most Experienced Airline featuring artwork by Charles Baskerville (1896-1994) dep...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Lady From Shanghai
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production photo from 1948 film Noir The Lady from Shanghai starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles and directed by Orson Welles. The photo was taken by Robert Coburn...
Category
1940s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Brighton Come Down London Seaside Resort
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for Brighton Come down and see me sometime! Stunning design featuring a smiling lady wearing a fashio...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Ipcress File
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for The Ipcress File 1965.
This British espionage film was directed by Sidney J. Furie, and stars Michael Caine as Harry Palm...
Category
1960s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Poster Bauhaus Chicago Illinois Herbert Bayer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage exhibition poster for 50 Years Bauhaus held from 25 August to 26 September 1969 held at the S.R. Crown Hall Illinois Institute of Technolog...
Category
1960s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Night of the Hunter
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1955 Film Noir The Night of the Hunter.
The film starred Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and was directed by Charles Lamont. Mitchum gives on of the g...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Marilyn Monroe
Located in London, GB
This extremely rare 1952original Marilyn Monroe photograph was taken at La Guardia Airport, New York, and used in various Spanish publications. This information can seen through the...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Dolomiti Visit The Dolomites Italy Alps Mountains
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for The Dolomites / Dolomiti in Italy - Design features a family of tourists looking on in awe at the Dolomites mountain r...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Transport Poster Museums Kensington Map Fred Taylor Art
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster - the Museums Kensington - featuring detailed artwork by Fred Taylor (1875-1963) depicting an aerial map view of the V&A Victoria and Albert Museum (founded 1852), the Natural History Museum (founded 1881) and the Science Museum (founded 1857) located along Exhibition Road leading from South Kensington towards the Royal Albert Hall (opened 1871) and the Albert Memorial (opened 1872) in Hyde Park surrounded by trees, the title text between two London Transport roundels below. Printed by The Dangerfield Printing Co...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Imperial Airways Largest Air Liners
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Speed and Comfort The World's largest Air Liners Imperial Airways The British Air Line - featuring great artwork ...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Swiss Stone Lithographic Poster Custom Framed "Astoria"
Located in North Miami, FL
This fantastic and graphic authentic Swiss poster that is on the rare and very obscure side is a stone lithograph that is archivally linen backed and custom framed. The 4 ply silk ma...
Category
1930s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Lexicon Hispano Olivetti Typewriter Graphic Design Bird
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Avant Garde advertising poster for the Lexicon Hispano Olivetti 80 typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting a colourful bird flying above a photograph of a new Olivetti typewriter...
Category
1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern 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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