Antique Poster Dutch East Indies, circa 1940

Rare decorative engraved map of the Dutch East Indies, or nowadays Indonesia. Title (in old Dutch): NIEUWE EN NAUKEURIGE KAART DER OOST-INDISCHE ...

Two views on one plate titled 'A Prospect of The Town of Batavia (and) A View of the Citadel of Batavia'. Beautiful views of Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia. The upper view shows the ci...

Antique map titled 'Les Isles de la Sonde Moluques Philippines, Carolines et Marianes'. Old map of the East Indies, also showing a part of Australia. Artists and Engravers: Publi...

Antique map titled 'Batavia zo als het was in den Jaare 1731.' (Batavia as it was in the year 1731.) Map of the city of Batavia (Jakarta) in Indonesia. With legend and scale. This pr...

Original vintage World War Two poster, Indie bevrijden Een nieuwe taak voor den Vliegenden Hollander / Liberate India Dutch East Indies A new task fo...

Original vintage World War Two military recruitment poster for the Dutch Navy relating to action in the Dutch East Indies - Ik val aan ... volgt mij dit sein waarmee schout bij nacht...

Billy Wilder's timeless screwball comedy 'Some Like It Hot' needs no introduction - with it's non-stop action, smutty one-liners, sexual innuendo and skilful blend of high and low comedy, it is widely regarded as one of the most hilarious movies ever made. On the run from Chicago mobsters, musicians Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon disguise themselves as women to join an all-female jazz band bound for Florida. Curtis double masquerades as an impotent millionaire to win the irresistible Marilyn Monroe, who steals the show as singer Sugar Kane, while Lemmon is pursued by a real millionaire. Daring at the time for its themes of cross-dressing, gender identity and homosexuality, the film was released without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code, yet was an overwhelming success and went on to receive six Oscar nominations. This extremely rare poster for the East German release focuses solely on a curvaceous Marilyn. As American publicity materials were banned during the Soviet era in the Communist Bloc, the state-commissioned artists were able to operate with creative freedom from the demands of the big Hollywood studios...

A dark and moody photomontage teases the love triangle at the centre of the drama on this rare poster for the first Romanian release of Elia Kazan's 1955 adaptation of John Steinbeck...