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Posters For Sale
Period: 1950s
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...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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1950 Martini & Rosso Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beginning in the mid-19th Century in Italy, Martini & Rosso has become a multi-national beverage brand. This beautiful poster was originally created in the 1930’s, and was so success...
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1950s Italian Vintage Posters

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1956 Air France, Europe Original Vintage Poster
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...
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage Australian Airline Travel Poster for Qantas - At Your Command!
By Mandson
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Qantas super service at your command! Australia's international airline Qantas Empire Airways Ltd in association with British Overseas Airways Corporation BOAC and Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. Great mid century illustration featuring a smartly dressed smiling lady walking past a line of Qantas cabin crew wearing blue uniform with suitcases bearing luggage labels on the side, a man in a brown suit and hat following her and more passengers disembarking a Qantas Lockheed Constellation plane with an Australian flag...
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1950s Australian Vintage Posters

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Paper

American Turkey Shooting Target
Located in Hook, Hampshire
American Turkey shooting target American Turkey shooting target. 1950’s American Fox Shooting Target. New old stock vintage paper shooting targets by ...
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1950s European Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Winter Sport Ski Travel Poster St Moritz Sun Cradle Switzerland
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...
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1950s Swiss Vintage Posters

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1959 TWA, Los Angeles Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
This poster was created in 1959 for Howard Hughes’ Trans World Airlines promoting their routes to Los Angeles, California. Illustrated by influential Ame...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s French Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Swiss Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Lugano Southern Switzerland Suisse Schweiz Buzzi
By Daniele 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 ...
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1950s Swiss Vintage Posters

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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 ...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Lebanese Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Dutch Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s German Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Swiss Vintage Posters

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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. ...
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1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s German Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Russian Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Airline Travel Poster Las Vegas TWA David Klein Midcentury
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...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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Linen, 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...
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1950s German Vintage Posters

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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 ...
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1950s French Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Russian Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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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...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Posters

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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,...
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1950s Lebanese Vintage Posters

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Paper

Et Dieu ... Crea La Femme / And God Created Woman
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1956 film Et Dieu ... Crea La Femme / And God Created Woman. The film starred Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jurgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant and was dire...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Posters

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Citizen Kane
Located in London, GB
Original German film poster used for the film's re-release in the 1960's Orson Welles at the age of only twenty-five directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in this remarkable film....
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1950s Swedish Vintage Posters

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St. Louis Blues Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US movie poster for the 1958 music biography staring Nat King Cole, Eartha Kit, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Ruby Dee.
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1950s American Vintage Posters

High Society
Located in London, GB
Original US studio production photo for the 1956 Classic comedy, musical starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong The film was remake of the 1940 The Philade...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

1955 To Catch a Thief Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The incomparable Alfred Hitchcock released "To Catch a Thief" in 1955, based on the 1952 novel of the same name. The classic film stars the duo of icons Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, b...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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Linen, Paper

1959 North by Northwest Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The legendary Alfred Hitchcock's all-time classic "North by Northwest" was released in 1959 and became one of the most highly acclaimed films of all time. This stunning & extremely...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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1958 Lindt Milk Chocolate Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Founded in 1845, Lindt has gone on to become one fo the largest chocolatiers in the world. The Swiss company is based in Kilchberg where its largest factory and museum is, and it has 11 other factories worldwide. This gorgeous poster was created in 1958 to promote the Lindt Milk Chocolate range and features a stylish woman in silk scarf and sunglasses with chocolate body and arms. Designed by the great Swiss poster...
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1950s Swiss Vintage Posters

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Paper

Pokolenie / A Generation
Located in London, GB
Original Polish film poster for the war drama A Generation 1955. This film starred Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska and Tadeusz. The film was directed by Andrzej Wajda. The art w...
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1950s Polish Vintage Posters

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Paper

1950 Le Monte Dore Auvergne - Auriac Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
With fabulous artwork from French poster great Jacques Auriac, this lovely poster was created in 1950 to advertise the Le Monte-Dore area in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes in central France. ...
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1950s French Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Beyrouth Liban Beirut Lebanon Middle East Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Beyrouth Liban / Beirut Lebanon featuring a compass design with arrows pointing to a red dot in the centre, the text promoting Maritime exchanges S...
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1950s Lebanese Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Ryndam Maasdam Holland America Line Poseidon Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - A New Concept in Tourist Travel New Twins Ryndam Maasdam Comfort with Economy Holland-America Line - featuring a great design by the Dutch gra...
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1950s Dutch Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Winter Sport Travel Poster Jackson Pinkham Notch New Hampshire
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport and skiing travel poster for Jackson-Pinkham Notch New Hampshire featuring artwork by Bob Bugg (1920-1993) of a young boy wearing a hat, mittens and a brown coat, holding ski poles and looking over his shoulder at the fir trees and the snow covered mountains in the distance, the bold blue title text on the blue sky above and below. Issued in the USA by New Hampshire Division of Economic Development. Located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Pinkham Notch mountain pass is popular for hiking and mountain climbing in the summer and alpine and nordic skiing...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Oxford University British Railways Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway poster published by British Railways - Oxford Travel by Train - featuring artwork by Fred Taylor (1875-1963) depicting an aerial map view of the city of Oxford including parks, the historic University of Oxford (founded 1096), Christ Church Cathedral (built 1160-1200) and other notable landmarks with the university college crests below including Balliol, Merton, Exeter, Oriel, Queen's, New, Lincoln, All Souls, Magdalen, Brasenose, Corpus Christi, Christchurch, Trinity, St John's, Jesus, Wadham, Pembroke, Worcester, Hertford, St Edmund Hall, Keble, St Peter's Hall, Campion Hall, St Benet's Hall, Lady Margaret Hall...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Gozaisho Ropeway Japan Yokkaichi Yunoyama
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Asia travel poster for the Gozaisho Ropeway 御在所ロープウェイ in Japan featuring people in red cable car cabins travelling up and down the mountain with the colourful forest...
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1950s Japanese Vintage Posters

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Snoopy Original Vintage Poster, 'It's Nice to Have a Friend', Circa 1958
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is an original vintage poster from 1958 featuring SNOOPY by Schulz. This poster is in excellent condition and has been linen backed for preservation. CONDITION Good FORMAT L...
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1950s French Modern Vintage Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage Poster, SNOOPY 'It's Good To Have A Friend' Circa 1958
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is an original vintage poster from 1958 featuring SNOOPY by Schulz. This poster is in excellent condition and has been linen backed for preservation. CONDITION Good FORMAT L...
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1950s American Modern Vintage Posters

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Linen, Paper

Old French Poster of Farm Animals Great for Country French Kitchen from Paris
Located in Chicago, IL
Old French Poster of Farm Animals which could look great in a Country French Kitchen. These used to be sold in Paris and unfortunately the store suf...
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1950s French Country Vintage Posters

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Paper

1950 Colussi Biscotti Venezia Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning poster from 1950 created to advertise "A. Colussi Biscotti di lusso". The Venezia based biscuit & cracker snack company was founded in 1791 and continues to this day. Readi...
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1950s Italian Vintage Posters

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Linen, Paper

Funny Face
Located in London, GB
Original US colour production still for Stanley Donen's 1957 comedy, musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. The piece is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in a Tulip ...
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1950s American Vintage Posters

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Paper

The Blue Lamp
Located in London, GB
This British drama was directed by Basil Dearden and stars Jack Warner as PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley and Dirk Bogarde. The title refers to the blue lantern that is outside British police...
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1950s British Vintage Posters

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Original Vintage Advertising Poster Porsche Car Racing International Success
By Eric Strenger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster celebrating the success of Porsche cars - Porsche meldet weitere internationale Erfolge / reports further international successes - featuring a wh...
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1950s German 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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