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Posters For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1930s
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...
Category
1930s Monacan Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Lugano Southern Switzerland Suisse Schweiz Buzzi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Lugano in Southern Switzerland Suisse Schweiz featuring a colourful image by the Swiss artist Daniele Buzzi (1890-1974) of a man holding oars on a ...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1956 Air France, Europe Original Vintage Poster
By Hervé Morvan
Located in Winchester, GB
With fabulous artwork from French painter Herve Morvan, this poster promoting Air France routes to Europe was created in 1956. Air France was created in 1933 after a merger of multip...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original 1950s Aqua-Lung U.S. Divers Company Scuba Diving Poster
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This is a rare scuba diving poster from the US Divers Company. We have three different posters available. Please see our other items. Framed posters in pi...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Japan Summer Invites You Yuigahama Beach
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Japanese travel poster - Summer Invites You - issued by the Ujiyamada City Tourism Association and the Japan Transport Corporation featuring a smiling lady wearing a...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Railway Travel Poster Japan Ski Skating Sunshine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport railway travel poster advertising the Tobu Train to Nikko - Ski Skating Sunshine - featuring colourful images of ice skaters and skiers skiing downhill ...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Gion Festival Kyoto Float Procession Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising the Gion Festival Float Procession in Kyoto on 17 and 25 July featuring artwork depicting a large traditional float mounted on a wooden car...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Brazil Rio Guanabara Bay Sugarloaf Mountain Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Brazil in South America featuring a scenic view from the Christ the Redeemer statue on Mount Corcovado towards Sugarloaf Mountain in Guanabara Bay ...
Category
1930s Brazilian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Munich Gateway South Germany Victory Gate Munchen
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Germany travel poster - Munchen Das Tor zum Suden / Munich The Gateway to the South - featuring a view of bikes and cars driving through a stone arch of the historic...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Jean Arp Louisiana Museum Exhibition Poster “Arp”, Denmark, 1958
By Jean Arp
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
Jean Arp
Denmark, 1958
“Arp”. Louisiana Museum. Vintage exhibition poster.
H 103 x W 73 x D 3 cm
Category
1950s Danish Vintage Posters
Materials
Metal
Otello, Vintage Polish Movie poster by Waldemar Swierzy, 1956
Located in London, GB
Sublime and very rare example of twentieth century poster art right here! We are in love with this 1956 Polish poster designed by Waldemar Swierzy towards the start of his career. Th...
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
The Quartermass Experiment, Vintage Polish Poster by Marian Stachurski, 1959
Located in London, GB
So striking and bold, this is an incredible graphic poster design by Polish artist Marian Stachurski for the 1955 British science fiction film ‘The Quartermass Xperiment’ (Zemsta Kos...
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Juha, Vintage Polish Movie Poster by Marian Stachurski, 1958
Located in London, GB
This is a very special and very rare original 1958 Polish poster by an incredible artist from the Polish School of Posters Marian Stachurski. He did so much great work during the 50s...
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Ranch Texas, Vintage Polish Movie Poster by Jerzy Flisak, 1959
Located in London, GB
Rare and beautiful film poster designed by Jerzy Flisak in 1959 for Polish movie “Rancho Texas” directed by Wadim Berestowski.
Polish A1 size: 58.5 x 83 cm
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Ski Travel Poster St Moritz Sun Cradle Switzerland
By Hugo Laubi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport ski travel poster for St Moritz featuring a great design by Hugo Laubi (1888-1959) depicting the St Moritz smiling sun logo as a baby with curly hair ly...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Ski Race St. Moritz Switzerland
Located in Zurich, ZH
Original Vintage Swiss Avantgarde Poster created in 1933 by Walter Herdeg (1908 – 1995) and printed in 1934 by the Art. Institut Orell Füssli in Zurich as an intaglio to promote the ...
Category
1930s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Joan Miro Derrieve Le Miroir Exhibition Poster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Joan Miro Exhibition Poster. Probably dates to the early 1960's. Looks like original frame.
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Windsor See Britain By Train British Railways
By Frank Sherwin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Windsor See Britain by Train British Railways - featuring scenic artwork by Frank Sherwin (1896-1986) depicting a view of the historic Windsor Castle...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Poul Kjaerholm One-Legged or Stacking Chair Working drawing poster 1953 Danish
Located in WIJCKEL, NL
Here is a very rare and desirable vintage Working drawing poster displaying a 1953 prototype representation of the One-Legged or stacking chair by the Danish designer Poul Kjærholm. ...
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Gstaad Swissair Switzerland Franz Villiger Suisse
By Franz Villiger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Gstaad 1100m Suisse Schweiz Switzerland Voyagez par Swissair Travel with Swissair featuring a colour photo by Franz Villiger (1918-1992) of...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage LNER Train Travel Poster Kings Lynn Norfolk Havens And Harbours
By Frank Mason
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London & North Eastern Railway train travel advertising poster - Havens and Harbours on the LNER No. 2. Kings Lynn - featuring artwork by the English artist and post...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Holland Beach Fisherman Netherlands Midcentury
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Holland featuring a lady in a bikini sitting on a wooden rowing boat being rowed by a pipe smoking sailor or fisherman in front of people on the be...
Category
1950s Dutch Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Winter In Majorca Spain Carlos Puntis Art Deco
By Carlos Puntis Nebot
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Winter in Majorca Spain - featuring an Art Deco illustration of a lady in a red swimsuit sunbathing with a thermometer showing a warm tem...
Category
1930s Spanish Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Swiss Ski Travel Poster Wallis Valais Switzerland Fox Be Smart
By Jean & Lucien Gongoro
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Swiss ski travel poster - Be smart like me ... Spend your winter holidays in Valais Switzerland / Over schrander gesproken ... hij koos het Wallis Zwitserland - feat...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Railways Travel Poster Essex St Osyth's Priory England
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways travel poster - Essex See England by Rail - featuring a great image of St. Osyth's Priory depicting a lady and man walking along a path towards the ...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Middle East Travel Poster Lebanon Liban Mountain Sea Sun Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Middle East travel poster - Au Liban La Montagne et la Mer avec le Soleil / In Lebanon The Mountain and the Sea with the Sun - featuring two sport illustrations of w...
Category
1950s Lebanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Poul Kjaerholm Aluminium Chair Competetition drawing poster 1953 Danish Design
Located in WIJCKEL, NL
Here is a very rare and desirable vintage Competition drawing poster displaying a 1953 prototype representation of the Aluminium chair by the Danish designer Poul Kjærholm.
A detail...
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Rail Travel Map Poster France Map SNCF National French Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage rail travel map poster - France Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais - featuring a colourful illustrated map by Jean Cheval and Alex Batany (as Cheval-Batan...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Book Publisher Advertising Poster Success Books Owl Reading Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage book publisher advertising poster - De romans van uw succes Succes Boeken / The novels of your success Success Books publishing house - featuring a fun illustration ...
Category
1930s Dutch Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Travel Poster Winter In The USSR Intourist Skiing Zhukov
By Nikolai Zhukov
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet travel poster by Intourist - Winter in the USSR - featuring an illustration by the notable artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973) of skiers skiing down a slope at ...
Category
1930s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Dessau Motorcycle Car Race Germany Midcentury
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster for the Dessauer Motorrad-u. Autorennen unter der Losung: Sportler, vorwarts im Kampf fur Frieden, demokratischer Einheit und Umabhangigkeit! / Des...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
A 1930 Inaugural World Cup Poster
Located in Pewsey, GB
A truly rare poster from the officially issued monochrome version of the 1930 World Cup poster bearing the all-important official stamp of the Comite Ejectivo of the governing body o...
Category
1930s Uruguayan Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage American Airlines Travel Advertising Poster for Los Angeles
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for "Los Angeles American Airlines" featuring a stunning and colourful design by Fred Ludekens (1900-1982) of a view over the city lights o...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Lake Biwa Japan Bus Tour Nippon Midcentury
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Lake Biwa in Japan advertising group trips to the swimming lake by comfortable tour bus featuring a smiling lady wearing sunglasses and a red swims...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Travel Poster "Bandol Le Casino Municipal" A.Bermond. France 1930. Framed.
Located in Köln, NW
Original framed travel Poster "Bandol Le Casino Municipal" by André Bermond. France 1930
Stone lithograph
Printed by Moullot, Marseille.
The lithograph is signed and dated upper ri...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Posters
Materials
Plexiglass, Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Osaka Castle Japan Bus Tours Sakura Cherry
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Japan travel poster advertising Osaka sightseeing bus tours featuring a stunning view of the historic and culturally significant Osaka Castle (built 1583) located in...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Visit London See Britain By Rail British Railways
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways travel poster - Visit London See Britain by Rail - featuring colourful artwork by Gordon Nicoll (1888-1959) depicting a procession of Horse Guards r...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Welcome To Paris British Imperial Airways Eiffel
By Jan Le Witt and George Him
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Welcome to Paris Imperial Airways British Airways 70 flying minutes 8 services a day - featuring a great design by the notable artistic team Lewitt-H...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Railways Train Travel Poster St Andrews Golf Scotland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways train travel poster for St Andrews featuring a colourful image by James McIntosh Patrick (1907-1998) depicting players on the historic St Andrews go...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster XIX International ADAC Eifel Race Nurburgring
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster for the XIX Internationales ADAC Eifel Rennen annual international motor race organised by the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC; establis...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Peterborough Cathedral British Railways
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Peterborough See Britain by Train British Railways - featuring a great scenic view by Kenneth Steel (1906-1970) of The Cathedral and Dean...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Messageries Maritimes Far East Map H Baille
By Hervé Baille
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Messageries Maritimes Viet-Nam / Vietnam Cambodge / Cambodia Laos Courriers d'Extreme Orient / Far East featuring a fantastic illustrated map ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Aviation Propaganda Poster Glory Soviet Falcons USSR Pilots
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet aviation propaganda poster - Слава Советским Соколам! / Glory to the Soviet Falcons - featuring a dynamic military illustration of the red hammer and sickle f...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Britain In Summer Manor Flower Garden Haslehust
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Britain in Summer - featuring a great image by the watercolour painter Ernest William Haslehust (1866-1949) of a traditional English country manor ho...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Essex Moulsham Mill Chelmsford British Railways
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways travel poster - Essex See Britain by Train - featuring scenic artwork by the landscape watercolour painter Edward Wesson (1910-1983) of Moulsham Mil...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1953 The Wild One Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Released in 1953, "The Wild One" became a great hit, in no small part thanks to the iconic character of Johnny Strabler. The role and film continued to help Marlon Brando solidify hi...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Airline Travel Poster Las Vegas TWA David Klein Midcentury
By David Klein
Located in London, GB
Original vintage mid-century airline travel poster advertising Las Vegas Fly TWA Trans World Airlines featuring a colourful design by the notable American artist David Klein (1918-20...
Category
1950s American Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
1939 Keep Calm and Carry On Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
One of the most iconic and important poster designs in British history, the instantly recognisable "Keep Calm and Carry On" was designed by the Ministry of Information in 1939. The p...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Vote Peace And Socialism East Germany DDR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage East German political propaganda poster - Wir sind 900 millionen Auch deine stimme fur frieden und sozialismus! / We are 900 million Also your vote for peace and soc...
Category
1950s German Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Music Poster Jazz At Chelsea Mike Daniels Delta Jazzmen Beatty
Located in London, GB
Original vintage music poster advertising a Jazz At Chelsea performance by Mike Daniels Delta Jazzmen featuring Doreen Beatty with an Interval Band the Riverside Jazzmen at Chelsea C...
Category
1950s British 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...
Category
1930s Bulgarian Art Deco 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 showing smartly dressed ...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
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 ...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Military Propaganda Poster Pilot Protecting Homeland USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet military propaganda poster - Let's Protect Our Country / Бережем страну родную! - featuring a dynamic illustration of a pilot in a cockpit of a plane flying a...
Category
1950s Russian Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Japan Sightseeing Bus Temple Kimono Nippon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Sightseeing Bus trips in Japan issued by Kansai Teisan Auto Co Ltd featuring a colourful design depicting a tour bus driving through a collage of J...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Shell British Landmarks London Temple
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster issued by Shell - To Visit Britain's Landmarks You Can Be Sure Of Shell - featuring a view of the historic Temple Bar gate by the English p...
Category
1930s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Music Advertising Poster Jazz At Chelsea Cy Laurie Band London
Located in London, GB
Original vintage music poster advertising Jazz At Chelsea The Cy Laurie Band performing at Chelsea College Manresa Road SW3 from 7:30-11:30 on Saturday 22 October tickets 4/- featuri...
Category
1950s British Vintage Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Original Vintage Travel Poster Air Liban Middle East Airlines Lebanon Map
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage travel poster for Air Liban advertising flights around the middle east - Egypt / Egypte, Saudi Arabia / Arabie Seoudite, Kuwait / Kowait, Cyprus / Chypre, Iraq,...
Category
1950s Lebanese 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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