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Posters For Sale
Period: 1930s
Original Vintage London Transport Travel Poster Crutch House Latton Harlow Pixie
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport travel poster for Crutch House Latton Harlow in Essex featuring artwork by Frederick Charles Herrick (1887-1970) showing two rabbits watching a grou...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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1931 Monaco Grand Prix Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
This poster is for the 1931 Monaco Grand Prix, with the brilliant illustration design by artist Robert Falcucci. The image depicts a speeding red car evading a white car in vivid col...
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1930s Monacan Vintage Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Fly By Imperial Airways Paris Prague
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Fly By Imperial Airways London to Paris while you lunch Prague 6 hours Vienna 7 1/2 hours Budapest 9 hours - featuring colourful artwork ...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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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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Rare Original Vintage Advertising Poster Air Mail Routes GPO Mcknight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage advertising poster for the GPO General Post Office - Air Mail Routes - featuring a great design by the notable artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) showin...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Bandol Cote d'Azur French Riviera Art Deco Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Cote d'Azur ete Bandol hiver Le pays du soleil et des fleurs / French Riviera summer winter The land of sun and fl...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Bourgogne Burgundy Wine SNCF Railway France
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for Bourgogne / Burgundy issued by the National Society of French Railways SNCF Societe Nationale Des Chemins De Fer Francais featuring artwork b...
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1930s French Vintage Posters

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Paper

City Lights
Located in London, GB
This is a rare and desirable original US lobby card for the one of Charlie Chaplin's greatest films. It was released in 1931 when sound had already been out for a few years. Chaplin...
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1930s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Edinburgh LMS London Midland And Scottish Railway
By Pieter Irwin Brown
Located in London, GB
Original vintage LMS travel poster for Edinburgh featuring a great illustration of a piper of the Black Watch Royal Regiment of Scotland in military tartan uniform playing the bagpip...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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Paper

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Located in London, GB
This is an extremely rare and beautiful original US title card for the 1935 fantasy film A Midsummer Night's Dream. This film starred James Cagney, Dick Powell and Olivia de Havilla...
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1930s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

Island of Lost Souls
Located in London, GB
This is an extremely rare and highly desirable original US lobby card for the 1932 Horror , Science Fiction film Island of Lost Souls. This film starred Charles Laughton, Bela Lugos...
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1930s American Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Poster Pan American Air Travel Hong Kong Far East Sea Plane USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage PanAm travel poster featuring a great image depicting a seaplane marked USA flying over Hong Kong harbour with traditional junk boats in the foreground and the city ...
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1930s American Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Africa Travel Poster Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe Ancient City
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Africa travel poster for Zimbabwe Southern Rhodesia featuring a stunning scenic view by William George Bevington (1881-1953) depicting rocks and the ruins of the anc...
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1930s South African Vintage Posters

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Paper

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Located in London, GB
A rare and important original US lobby card for Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 Spy crime film The Man Who Knew Too Much. This film starred Peter Lorre. There are not even 2 full lobby card ...
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1930s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage LMS Railway Poster Lake District Derwentwater Cumbria England
Located in London, GB
Original vintage LMS London Midland & Scottish railway poster for the Lake District featuring scenic artwork depicting a peaceful view of a sailing boat on Derwentwater with the tree...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage London Transport Poster Museums Kensington Map Fred Taylor Art
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 ...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Cruise Ship Travel Poster Canadian Pacific Empress Of Australia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise ship travel poster - Canadian Pacific Empress of Australia Europe Canada USA - featuring a night time seascape by Al...
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1930s Canadian Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster French Line Plymouth New York Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster advertising Plymouth New York issued by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique French Line CGT. Elegant Art Deco design featuring an ocean liner shi...
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1930s British Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Brescia ENIT Palazzo Broletto Lombardy Italy
By Vincenzo Alicandri
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Brescia issued by the Italian Tourism Board ENIT featuring a flock of birds flying around the stone tower of the historic Palazzo Broletto Palace w...
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1930s Italian Vintage Posters

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Paper

Bellenger, Original Art Deco Motorcycle Poster, Favor Bicycle, Mechanic, 1937
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Art Deco Poster created by Bellenger for Cycle Favor in 1937. Artist: Bellenger Jacques et Pierre Title : Favor - De la belle mécanique ! Cycles - Motos Date: 1937 Size: 23...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Train Travel Poster North Wales For Holidays LMS Railway Coast
Located in London, GB
Original vintage LMS train travel poster - North Wales for Holidays cheap tickets and illustrated folder from the London Midland & Scottish Railway - featuring the text below a sceni...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Royal Town Of Sutton Coldfield Sutton Park UK Art
By Michael Reilly
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield Sutton Park featuring stunning artwork by Michael Reilly (b.1898) depicting a couple enjoying a walk on a hill past trees in the park with a calm reflective lake and fields in the distance, the stylised title text and information below - Over 2500 acres of open space Gorse Heather Woods Moorland Lakes Boating fishing bathing & golf - with the distances indicated on the side. Dating back to the 9th century Sutton...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Sport Poster Winter Olympic Games 1936 Germany Ludwig Hohlwein
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster - Germany 1936 IV Olympic Winter Games Garmisch Partenkirchen 6-16 February - featuring dynamic artwork by Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) depicting a skier wearing a bib with the Olympic rings symbol on it, holding his skis on the left with his right arm in the air celebrating his victory in front of snowy mountain peaks visible in the background, the text below in red and white letters and information at the bottom - For particulars apply to the Organising Committee of the IVth Olympic Winter Games 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Bavaria. Published by the Reichsbahn Centrale for the German Travel Agents...
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1930s German Vintage Posters

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937. This piece features Tenggren art. This piece would have been ...
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1930s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage SNCF Railways Travel Poster St Nizier Du Moucherotte Grenoble
By G. Gorde 1
Located in London, GB
Original vintage French Railways travel poster - Tous les Sports d'Hiver SNCF Cure d'air et des repos aux portes de Grenoble St Nizier du Moucherotte Isere Balcoon des Alpes Francais...
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1930s French Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster Medicinal Brandy Perodeau Sanator
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Medicinal Brandy A. Perodeau Sanator featuring an image of the bottle of alcohol at the top with the label information in French and English - Medicinal X Brandy distillateurs a Cognac France approve par les docteurs medecins de France Angleterre Chine Allemagne Amerique Australie Russie &tc / distillers in Cognac France approved by doctors of France England...
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1930s French Vintage Posters

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Framed Advertising Poster for the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris
Located in Ulm, DE
Advertising poster for the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris Framed advertising poster "exposition internationale 1937 PARIS" Printed by Julis Simon S.A. Paris original Art Deco, Fran...
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1930s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Poster Buy British Tom Purvis EMB Empire Marketing Board
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board EMB to encourage people to help the economy following the Great Depression in America by buying British goods - Buy Briti...
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1930s British Vintage Posters

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A vintage pull-down medical wall chart illustrating "Orthopedics of Foot" 1930s
Located in Den Haag, NL
A vintage pull-down medical wall chart illustrating "Orthopedics of Foot" 1930s DDR signed Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden.
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1930s German Bauhaus Vintage Posters

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Linen

Original Vintage Polish State Railways Travel Poster Krakow Festival Poland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Polish State Railways train travel poster advertising the Krakow Festival in Poland / Pologne Fetes de Cracovie on 3-24 June 1939 featuring a colourful design depict...
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1930s Polish Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Hongrie Hungary Magyar Art Deco Konecsni Kling
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Hungary / Hongrie featuring a great Art Deco illustration depicting a smiling lady in a traditional costume holding a butterfly with colourful flag...
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1930s Hungarian Vintage Posters

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Paper

1930's Educational Poster - Human Anatomy Internal Organs
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Internal Organs 1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Internal Organs. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and ...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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1930's Educational Poster - Human Skull
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Skull 1930’s Educational Poster – Human Skull. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart from the Czech Re...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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1930's Educational Poster - Wild Cat
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Wild Cat 1930’s Educational Poster – Wild Cat. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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1930's Educational Poster - Bat
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Bat 1930’s Educational Poster – Bat. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart from the Czech Republic illustrat...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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1930's Educational Poster - Human Anatomy Spine
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Spine 1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Spine. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart f...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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Crime and Punishment / Raskolnikov
Located in London, GB
Original 1935 Swedish film poster. This film was directed by Josef von Sternberg, whose illustrious career spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era. He is best known for his work with Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s. Crime and Punishment was adapted from the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The film stars Peter Lorre...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Posters

1930's Educational Poster - Human Brain
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Brain 1930’s Educational Poster – Human Brain. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart from the Czech Re...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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Paper

1930's Educational Poster - Human Anatomy Brain
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Brain 1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Brain. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart f...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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1930's Educational Poster - Human Anatomy Tongue
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Tongue 1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Tongue. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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1930's Educational Poster - Human Anatomy Throat
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Throat 1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy Throat. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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Paper

1930's Educational Poster - Plant Life
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Plant Life 1930’s Educational Poster – Plant Life. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage w...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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1930's Educational Poster - Human Anatomy
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy 1930’s Educational Poster – Human Anatomy. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart from the Czec...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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Paper

1930's Educational Poster - Plant Life
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Plant Life 1930’s Educational Poster – Plant Life. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage w...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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Paper

1930's Educational Poster - Smaller Mammals
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Smaller Mammals 1930’s Educational Poster – Smaller Mammals. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart from the ...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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1930's Educational Poster - Plant Life
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Plant Life 1930’s Educational Poster – Plant Life. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage w...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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Paper

1930's Educational Poster - Plant Life
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1930’s Educational Poster – Plant Life 1930’s Educational Poster – Plant Life. Early 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage w...
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1930s Czech Vintage Posters

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Art Deco Netherlands Poster "Caramidis"
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fabulous Art Deco 1930s Cigarette poster "Caramidis Orientales" by Arn. V Roessel, Amsterdam. Acquired from a Palm Beach collection.
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1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Arbeiterjugend Socialist Workers Youth German
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda poster - Arbeiter Jugend hinein in die Arbeiter Jugendvereine / Workers' Youth into the Workers' Youth Associations - fe...
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1930s German Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Verona Veneto Italy ENIT Italia City View Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Verona issued by the Italian Travel Office ENIT. Great image depicting a view through historic buildings and ancient monuments in the old c...
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1930s Italian Vintage Posters

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1935 Champagne Devaux Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
With stunning minimalist art-deco design from Austrian commercial artist and costume maker Ernst Deutsch Dryden, this iconic 1935 poster for Champagne Devaux is a piece of art as wel...
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1930s French Vintage Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Mar Del Plata Spa Sea Argentina Art Deco Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Mar Del Plata El Gran Balneario / The Great Spa featuring a dynamic Art Deco design by the Argentine painter Ernesto Scotti (1901-1957) depicting t...
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1930s Argentine Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Poland Polen Krakow Krakausche Feestdagen Polska
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Polen Krakausche Feestdagen / Poland Krakow Holidays 4-23 June 1938 showing a couple in traditional dress dancing with the old medieval walled town...
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1930s Polish Vintage Posters

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Flying Down to Rio
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish film poster .The legendary dancing partnership between Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire began with 1933’s Flying Down to Rio, a straightforwardly charming screen musical about an ill-starred romance. Though they only had supporting roles, the pair stole the show with their quick-stepping, jazzy number ‘Carioca’. In 1933, the United States was still in the midst of the Great Depression, and the infectious exuberance of Astaire and Rogers...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Africa Travel Poster Belgian Congo Leopoldville Kinshasa Zaire
By Jean van Noten
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Africa travel poster for the Congo issued by the Belgian Colonial Tourist Office / Office du Tourisme Colonial Belge featuring artwork by Jean van Noten...
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1930s Belgian Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Poznan Visit Poland Art Deco Pologne Polen Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Pologne Poland Polen Visitez Visit Besuchet Poznan et ses Environs and Environs und Umgebung featuring a couple in traditional clothing holding flo...
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1930s Polish Art Deco Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Varmland Promised Land Sweden Sverige
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for La Suede Varmland Terre Promise du Touriste / Varmland Sweden The Promised Land for Tourists featuring an illustration by Anders Beckma...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Animal Poster Four Pelicans Birds Animals Berend Sluyterman Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage animal poster featuring an illustration of four pelicans by the Dutch artist and animal painter Berend Sluyterman showing one o...
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1930s Dutch Vintage Posters

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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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