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Posters For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1890s
Original Vintage Car Advertising Poster Oldsmobile Metropolis General Motors
Located in London, GB
Original vintage car advertising poster - En Helt Ny Oldsmobile General Motors Fabrikat / A Brand New Oldsmobile - featuring a colourful Art Deco design depicting two couples in an e...
Category
1920s Norwegian Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Lakeland LNER Lake District Sailing Golf Rock Climbing
Located in London, GB
Original antique London & North Western Railway travel poster - Lakeland The English Lakes are England's Playground - featuring black and white image of scenic views and the activities on offer in the Lake District including sailing and historic villages, ancient ruins and hills in Windermere Keswick Ambleside Coniston Kendal Grasmere Ullswater with the bold headings - Yachting Coaching Boating Motoring Fishing Cycling Golfing Bowling Rock Climbing...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Winter Sport & Skiing Poster Murtal Bahn Railway Murau Austria
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster advertising skiing and winter sports in Murau Styria Austria by the Mur Valley railway (opened 1894): Wintersportplatz Murtal-Bahn Murau. Fantastic art...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Gladiator Automobiles Cycles Henri Gray Car
By Henri Gray (Henri Boulanger)
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Gladiator Automobiles and Cycles featuring great artwork by Henri Gray (aka Henri Boulanger; 1858-1924) depicting classic cars speeding and motorbikes racing towards the viewer on an ancient Roman style track with pillars and spectators watching from awning-covered stands and men in Roman soldier uniform...
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Early 1900s Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Election Poster Wake Up Vote Unionist Conservative John Bull
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election propaganda poster - Wake Up! Vote for the Unionist and a Reformed Second Chamber - featuring an illustration of John Bull...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Empire Marketing Board Sugar Cane Elijah Albert Cox Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933) as part of a campaign to promote trade within the British Empire featuring a colourful illustration by th...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Lithographic Poster, 'Alcazar d'été' , c. 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Early 20th Century Lithographic Poster, 'Alcazar d'été' , c. 1910
This is an original vintage poster which is linen backed for preservation. The overall condition is very good. This...
Category
1910s French Early Victorian Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster Anchor Line India Elephant Gibraltar Egypt
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster advertising Anchor Line to Gibraltar Egypt and India featuring a colourful design by the illustrato...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Cycles Peugeot Bicycles Messenger Military Horse Soldier
Located in London, GB
Large original antique advertising poster for Peugeot Bicycles featuring a great scene in the countryside depicting an army messenger in smart soldier's uniform holding a black Peugeot bike...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Calcutta Zoo Hippo East Indian Railway Nixon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Asia travel poster issued by the East Indian Railway (1845-1952) - See the Calcutta Zoo - featuring a great design by Kay Nixon (K...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Soviet Propaganda Poster Red Army Man 1919 Soldier Military
Located in London, GB
Original antique Soviet propaganda poster - Red Army man from the year 1919 / ?????? ?????? 1919 ?? ???? - featuring an illustration of a soldier in uni...
Category
1910s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Art Nouveau Poster for a French Art Exhibition in Krefeld
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster in German promoting an exhibition of French Art held in the city of Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia Germany from 28 May to 21 July 1907. Great Art Nouveau...
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Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster For Samson Kina Aperitif Drink Boxing Ring Sport Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for the Belgian aperitif Samson Kina featuring colourful artwork depicting a crowded boxing match with two men boxing in the ring and the sm...
Category
1920s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Movie Poster Mistress Of The World Mia May Silent Film
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet movie poster for part six of an eight part silent film Женщина с Миллиардами / The Woman with Billions The Mistress of the World / Die Herrin der Welt made in the Weimar Republic from 1919-1920, starring the Austrian actress Mia May (Hermine Pfleger; 1884-1980) in the lead role and directed by one of the pioneers of German Expressionist cinema Joe May (Joseph Otto Mandel; 1980-1954). Great design featuring a man holding a lady in his arms in shades of green in front of a statue of a lion...
Category
1920s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Chemins De Fer De l'Etat Et De Brighton Toussaint
Located in London, GB
Original antique train travel poster - Chemins de Fer de l'Etat et de Brighton Paris a Londres par Rouen Dieppe & Newhaven departs tous les jours matin et soir de la Gare St. Lazare ...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Gabriel Snubbers Rebound Shock Absorbers Classic Car Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Gabriel Snubbers Rebound Shock Absorbers Take the Bounce out of Motoring featuring a great Art Deco design depic...
Category
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Barcelona International Exposition 1929 Fair
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Exposicion Internacional Barcelona International Exposition held from 20 May 1929 to 15 January 1930 featuring an illustration of people w...
Category
1920s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique World War One Recruitment Poster To The Women Of Britain WWI
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One recruitment poster featuring the bold stylised text within a red border reading - To the Women of Britain Some...
Category
1910s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique World War One Poster Der Letzte Hieb WWI War Loan Soldier Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One poster - Der letzte Hieb ist die 8. Kriegsanleihe / The last blow is the 8th War Loan - featuring a dynamic image on a blue backg...
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1910s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motivation Poster Nothing Is Impossible Unmoglich Doval Quote
Located in London, GB
Original vintage German motivational workplace poster issued by the Parker-Holladay company in Berlin featuring an illustration of a plane flying over the sea at night with the quote...
Category
1920s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Liberals Tory Party Politics Taxation Tariff Reform Food
Located in London, GB
Original antique political election propaganda poster issued by the Liberal Party - Flattening Him Out, Or Broadening the Basis of Taxation - featuring an illustration set within a red line border depicting a Conservative Tory statesman wearing a blue coat and top hat marked Tariff Reform...
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Early 1900s British Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Chemins De Fer De L'Ouest Paris Etretat Railway Poster: Tennis
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel advertising poster published by French Western Railway - Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest - to promote the town of Etretat in Normandy in north west France - only fo...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Drink Poster Petit Clos Du Chateau Bourgogne Wine Cellar France
Located in London, GB
Original antique drink advertising poster for Petit Clos et Clos du Chateau wines featuring a bright and colourful illustration of four men with moustache...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Art Deco Poster of the Palladium Cinema by Svend Koppel
Located in Kastrup, DK
Rare original art deco poster by Svend Koppel depicting the 'Palladium Cinema' in Copenhagen Denmark.
Airbrush on paper, 1938.
Measures: Frame: 61 x 55,5 x 3 cm
Reproductions o...
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Early 20th Century Danish Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Ideal Home Exhibition Daily Mail Olympia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition Olympia held from 19 March to 29 April - We Are Exhibiting - featuring a colourful illustration by the no...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Demon Modern Petroleum Cooking Apparatus Advertising Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Demon The Modern Petroleum Cooking Apparatus Cooks quickly, cleanly and economically / Demon Der Moderne Petroleum Kochapparat Kochtschnell, Reinlich und Wirtschaftlich featuring a stunning Art Deco style design depicting two devil demons reaching up on a swirling flame blue shaded curve holding up a Demon logo and cooking stove...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Philadelphia Sunday Press News Sport Hunter Rabbit Cover
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the 6 October 1895 issue of the Philadelphia Sunday Press newspaper (1857-1920) featuring a colourful image of a lady in a red hunter coat, de...
Category
1890s American Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Griffon Motorcycle Bike France Design Art
By Hugo D'alesi
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Griffon motorcycles featuring artwork by the French artist Frederic-Hugo de Alesi (1849-1906) showing a man...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Travel Poster Ghent East Flanders Belgium State Railways Design
Located in London, GB
Original antique railway travel poster - Visitad Gante Y Las Artisticas Ciudades De Flandes Oriental / Visit Ghent And The Artistic Cities Of East Flanders - featuring scenic artwork...
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1920s Belgian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Ipswich LNER Mr Pickwick The Ancient House
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage LNER train travel poster for Ipswich featuring stunning artwork by the notable painter and poster artist Fred Taylor (1875-1963) titled Mr. Pickwick The Ancient House depicting a scene from the 1836-7 novel The Pickwick Papers by the English author Charles Dickens (1812-1870) of Mr Pickwick being carried through the Suffolk town on a sedan chair past the historical 15th century Ancient House with Venetian style Ipswich Windows and its Tudor panels...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Otto Linnemann Wettstreit Männer Gesangvereine 1913
Located in Aachen, NW
Very rare original vintage 1st printing poster by Otto Linnemann in 1913.
Wettstreit Deutscher Männer Gesangvereine.
This Jugendstil "Wettstreit Deutscher Männer Gesangvereine" post...
Category
1910s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Winslow Health & Hygiene Poster, Dental Hygiene
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is one of the best posters from the 1930s Winslow classroom series. The graphics are Silhouette against a dramatic black background... unique to these posters. Black was used so...
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Posters
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse “Le Jongleur de Notre Dame”
Located in Vienna, AT
Poster by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, for “Le Jongleur de Notre Dame” (1902), by Jules Massenet. Color lithograph signed lower right in print: G. Rochegrosse...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Taormina Sicily ENIT Italy Mt Etna Mario Borgoni
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster Taormina Italia featuring stunning artwork of the hilltop town in Sicily with a view over the ancient ruins and sailing boats on the calm blue sea leading around the coast to a snow topped Mount Etna in the distance, the title below. Artwork by Mario Borgoni...
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1920s Italian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Railway Travel Poster Breedene Plage Lez Ostende Beach Belgium
Located in London, GB
Original antique railway travel poster promoting La Campagne La Mer Les Courses Breedene Plage Lez Ostende / the countryside sea shopping Breedene Beac...
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1910s Belgian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster Walkers For A Good Start Use The Motor Bus Transport Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique London Transport poster - Walkers For A Good Start Use The Motor Bus, featuring artwork by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946) depicting a well dressed lady and man wearing...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Railway Poster Brittany France Bretagne Pittoresque Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster - Chemins de Fer de l'Etat La Bretagne Pittoresque billets de vacances et de bains de mer / State Railways Picturesque Brit...
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1910s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Canary Islands Iles Canaries Canarias Spain Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Canary Islands / Iles Canaries featuring a great design by Antonio Ares Moline (1907-1937) depicting a lady with islands at her feet set over a pin...
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1920s Spanish Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Salmon Fishing Newfoundland Empire Marketing Board Paine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster - Salmon Fishing Newfoundland - issued by the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933) featuring a great image of fish swimming in the colourful water. Printed ...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Advertising Shrink Resistant Scottish Wool Knitting Doll
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - With Scottish Yarns Shrink-Resistant Yarn Ask for our Wool at M. Rolley / Aux Laines Ecossaises Laines Irretrecissable Demandez nos Laines chez M. Rolley 36 Quai Tostain a Trouville sur Mer - featuring an image of a doll in a blue and white dress...
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1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Poster Danny Gurtler Munchner Hof Cabaret Artist Munich Theatre
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster - Munchner Hof Danny Gurtler - featuring an image of a moustached man wearing a hat and holding a hammer over his shoulder in black and white, his shirt in re...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Movie Poster Morfinisten The Morphine Takers Drug Addiction
Located in London, GB
Original antique movie poster for the 1911 short film The Morphine Takers / Morfinisten directed by Louis von Kohl and starring Lili Beck, Alfred...
Category
1910s Danish Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster by Hohlwein for the Golden Book of Sports Featuring Polo
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for The Golden Book of Sports or Das Goldene Buch Des Sports by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874...
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1910s German Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Wilfrid De Glehn Artwork Exhibition Goupil
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for an Exhibition of Pictures and Sketches by W.G. von Glehn & L. Monod at the Goupil Gallery 5 Regent Street Waterloo Place in London held in Feb...
Category
1890s British Antique Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Edgeware By Tram Frank Newbould Greater London
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Edgware by Tram - featuring a colourful image by the notable British poster artist Frank Newbould (1887-1951) depicting a lady wearing a shawl and ca...
Category
1920s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Advertising Poster Lloyds France Maritime Transports Insurance
Located in London, GB
Original antique insurance advertising poster for Lloyd de France Maritime Transports Societe Anonyme d'Assurances au Capital de 25 Millions de Francs Branche Fluviale Assurances Flu...
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1920s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Early Original Advertising Poster by Mabel Lucie Attwell for Shredded Wheat
Located in London, GB
Rare early original vintage poster for Shredded Wheat by the notable British illustrator, Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964). "Shredded Wheat 100% food, the happy way to health!" Great image of a girl with bows...
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1910s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique War Poster Admiral Cervera Navy Squadron Santiago De Cuba 1898
Located in London, GB
Original antique poster - La Malograda Escuadra del almirante Cervera navegando para Santiago de Cuba ano 1898 / The ill-fated squadron of Admiral Cervera sailing to Santiago de Cuba 1898 - depicting the fleet of naval cruisers and battleships under the command of Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete (1839-1909), flying the Spanish flags...
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1890s Spanish Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Spick & Span Shipshape Work Motivation Safety Sail Boat
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motivational poster - Spick and Span Shipshape working place Shipshape results Shipshape record How's It With You? - featuring great artwork depicting an old style w...
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1920s American Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Polska Poland Divine Service At Lowicz Procession
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Polska / Poland Divine Service at Lowicz featuring a stunning design by the Polish born artist Juliusz Stefan Norblin...
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1920s Polish Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Dinant Sur Meuse Rocher Bayard Rock Belge
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Dinant Sur Meuse Rocher Bayard issued by North Belgian Railway / Chemin de Fer du Nord-Belge featuring a scenic view of fishermen on a wooden boat ...
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1920s Belgian Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Poster Bearings The Cycling Authority Of America Magazine Art
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for a popular cycling magazine - Bearings The Cycling Authority of America Out Today For Sale Here - featuring a great Art Nouveau style design by...
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1890s American Art Nouveau Antique Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Virginia Water Lake Park Ruins Dog Walk London Transport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport poster for “Virginia Water” by Motor Bus General Route 117A from Hounslow Town Station featuring a stunning painting b...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Antique Drink Advertising Poster Kings Lemonade John Onwy Soda Pop
Located in London, GB
Original antique drink advertising poster for King's Lemonade featuring a colourful and fun illustration of a young boy climbing up a large bottle to ...
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1920s French Vintage Posters
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Paper
Jules Cheret Eldorado Art Nouveau Original Poster
By Jules Chéret
Located in Westport, CT
Art Nouveau Jules Cheret Eldorado Music Hall poster,linen backed and matted and framed in ornate Gilt washed frame
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Posters
Materials
Glass, Linen, Paper, Wood
Original Antique Art Nouveau Poster A La Place Clichy Paris Fashion Summer Sale
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for the Parisian department store A La Place Clichy promoting its special fashion summer sale in April / A La Pla...
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1890s French Belle Époque Antique Posters
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Paper
Original 1926 Southern Railway Poster - The Londoner's Leisure Thames Resorts
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Southern Railway ‘The Londoner's Leisure - the Thames’ cheap day tickets to the up-river resorts by Sou...
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1920s British Vintage Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Past Present Future Aviation Air Travel Horse Car Plane
Located in London, GB
Original vintage aviation advertising poster featuring cartoon style artwork depicting The Good Old Times Past / The Fugitive Present / The Radiant Future of air travel...
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1920s French 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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