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Period: 1940s
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Glory Of Stalin Aviation Records USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Athlete pilots of the voluntary society for the promotion of aviation Increase the glory of Stalin's aviation USSR The birthplace of aviat...
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Russian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage Sport Poster Olympic Games 1948 London Walter Herz Big Ben
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for the 1948 London Olympic Games held from 29 July to 14 August, the first Games held after World War Two. Iconic design by Walter Herz (b 1909) featuring th...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage World War Two Propaganda Poster Darn Holes At Once WWII Coupon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Darn holes at once Odd wool will do for hidden darns Little holes soon grow into big ones if left undarned a stitch in time saves c...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Long Live The Red Army USSR Stalin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Long live the Red Army the flesh and blood of the Soviet people! / Да здравствует красная армия-плоть от плоти советского народа! Artwork ...
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Russian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage War Home Front Poster Fish Is A Fighting Food Rationing WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front poster - Fish is a fighting food We need more - featuring an image of a catch of fish being hauled in a bucket by fishermen working on a woo...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Out of the Past
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 8 for the 1947 Film Noir Out of the Past. The film Starred Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas and was was directed Jacques Tourneur. The piece ...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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"Grand Canyon" Vintage Santa Fe Railroad Travel Poster by Oscar M. Bryn, 1949
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a vintage Grand Canyon travel poster for the Santa Fe Southern Railway, issued in 1949. The poster promotes railroad travel...
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American Modern Vintage 1940s Posters

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"Ready. Join U.S. Marines" Vintage WWII Recruitment Poster by Haddon Sundblom
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster, issued in 1942. The poster depicts a uniformed Marine, standing strong and proud at attention. The persuasive text reads ...
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Sport Poster Tour De France 1949 Cycling Nancy Ville Etape
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster - Le Tour De France 1949 Nancy Ville Etape Tourisme Art et Histoire / City stage Tourism Art and History - featuring artwork by Alfred Selig (1907-1974)...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

"Let's Go. U.S. Marines" Vintage WWII Recruitment Poster by Dickson, 1941
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster, by Dickson and issued in 1941. The poster depicts a uniformed Marine beckoning at the viewer to follow him. The persuasive text "Let’s Go!” is printed in large red italics at top. At center, the text “on LAND, at SEA, in the AIR” is a reference to the first stanza of the Marines Hymn, the oldest official song in the U.S. Armed Forces. At the bottom of the poster are two overprinted addresses for local recruitment offices, "356 U.S. Court House, 225 South Clark Street...
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters

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"The U.S. Marines Want You" Vintage WWII Recruitment Poster, 1940
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster, issued in 1940. The poster depicts a no-nonsense Marine drill instructor, pointing directly at the viewer, in front of a ...
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Post War Poster 17 Salon International Aviation Paul Colin WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage post World War two poster for the 17th International Aviation Exhibition - 17eme Salon International l'Aviation - held from 15 November to 1 December at the Grand Pa...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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1949 Cie Gle Transatlantique Original Vintage Poster
By René Bouvard 1
Located in Winchester, GB
With beautiful artwork from Rene Bouvard, this 1949 poster for "Cie Gle Transatlantique", or the "Compagnie Generale Transatlantique" shows an ocean liner sailing through the clear n...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Linen, Paper

James NORTHFIELD, Original Oil Painting Circa. 1940
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is an original oil painting by James Northfield. This paining has been signed by James Northfield himself, the painting has been done on board. It was most likely a study. The o...
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Australian Modern Vintage 1940s Posters

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Wood, Paint

Original Vintage War Recruitment Propaganda Poster US Navy Reserve Arise America
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two recruitment propaganda poster - Arise Americans Your Country and Your Liberty are in grave danger Protect them now by joining the United States Navy or...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage WWII Poster London Blitz Bombarded Street War Office Training
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Street Scenes Series Fig. 2 (to be viewed at 4-5 yards) - issued by the War Office and intended for rifle shooting directional training featuring artwork by Beric Young (1902-1963) depicting a war torn London street scene with damaged buildings and broken windows, fallen pylons, a tank under rubble from a bank, a double decker bus on its side and an ambulance crashed into a bomb crater in the road, the colourful image including trees, factories and chimneys, a Co-Op Cooperative Stores shop and a hospital on the hills in the background, London Underground stations and a clock tower in the centre, a teashop, church spire, camouflage tank, railway train signals...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Silence Enemy Watching Paul Colin WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster Silence - The Enemy is Watching for your confidences / Silence, l'Ennemi guette vos confidences - Design by Paul Colin (1892-1985) features two ...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Torino Alps Capital Winter Sport Campagnoli Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Winter Sports in Torino Capital of the Alps / Sport Invernali Torino Capitale Delle Alpi - featuring artwork by Alberto Campagnoli (1905-1983) of a red cable car ski lift traveling up past snow covered trees with a mountain and bright sun in the background, the colourful bold title text below and slogan diagonally across the image. Issued by ENIT the Italian...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Posters

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The Lost Weekend
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 6 for the 1944 Film Noir The Lost Weekend. This film was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry. This piece woul...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Back Them WWII Up Hudsons Coastal Command
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Back Them Up! A raid by "Hudsons" of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aelesund Norway in which eleven ships were hit - fea...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Waterloo Station Southern Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel advertising poster issued by Southern Railway - Waterloo Station 1848-1948 A Centenary of Uninterrupted Service During Peace and War - featuring a detailed illustration of the busy Central London station depicting people in smart suits and fashionable dresses, shoppers and families, people in different military uniform, boy scouts and porters, a girl sitting on a suitcase and two ladies running to make their train, a couple kissing and a man pushing a bicycle, people at the news stand and buying tickets at the main line booking office, Royal Mail vans parked on the side and steam trains on the platforms, a green Southern Railway van with a penguin on the side advertising Chessington Zoo and Circus driving by in the foreground, the glass ceiling architecture and the iconic four-faced clock...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Advertising Poster Keep It Under Your Stetson Bring Him Home
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster issued by the John B. Stetson Company during World War Two with a propaganda warning - Let's bring him home quicker Loose talk lengthens the war K...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

1948 London Olympic Games - Walter Herz Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The first games after World War II and Great Britains first time hosting, the 1948 Olympic Games were held in London between 29th July to 14th August. The United States won the games...
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English Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Share Sugar WWII Modernism US Rationing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Propaganda poster Share Sugar - It's war-scarce its war-necessary - Design features a box of sugar on a yellow background with bold black lettering. Is...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage WWII Travel Poster Good Old Days Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two travel poster - Back to the Good Old Days! ...National needs come first! Travel only when you must! - issued by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIP...
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Indian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Winter Sports Poster Kandersteg Schweiz Suisse Switzerland Ski
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sports poster for the Swiss alpine resort of Kandersteg Schweiz Suisse Switzerland located in the Bernese Oberlan...
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Swiss Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Pan Am Travel Map Poster South America Continent Of Contrasts
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Pan Am travel advertising map poster - South America Continent of Contrasts served by Pan American World Airways and Pan American Grace ...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage Africa Travel Poster Belgian Congo Congo Belge Illustrated Map
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Africa travel poster for the Belgian Congo / Congo Belge including a pictorial map of French Equatorial Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Tanganyika, Rhodesia and Angola. Desig...
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Belgian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Mexico Alfonso X Pena Midcentury Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Mexico featuring stunning artwork by the Mexican artist Alfonso X Pena (1903-1964) depicting a lady holding yellow, pink a...
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Mexican Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Quiet Stop Needless Noise WWII Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two warning poster - Quiet! Stop needless noise Noise wastes energy, dissipates manpower, slows war production - featuring a dynamic image of a man in a he...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Britain Pan Am Airline Clipper Mark Von Arenburg
Located in London, GB
Original vintage PanAm travel poster - Fly to Britain by Clipper Pan American World Airways The System of the Flying Clippers - featuring colourful artwork depicting a Royal Coldstre...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage World War Two Poster Lick Them Over There WWII Canada Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Lick Them Over There! Come On Canada! - featuring a dramatic image depicting soldier in uniform holding a bayonet rifle gun in one hand and lo...
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Canadian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Journey into Fear
Located in London, GB
Original American photographic production still. For the 1942 Film Noir Journey into Fear. The film starred Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles ...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Royal Leamington Spa Claude Henry Buckle
By Connor Buckley
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Royal Leamington Spa issued by British Railways featuring a great design by Claude Henry Buckle (1905-1973) depicting the Jephson Gardens Victorian...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Advertising Poster Speed Your Message Imperial Radio Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Art Deco poster advertising British radio telecommunication services - Speed your message via Imperial Eastern Empiradio or Marconi - featuring a stunning geometric ...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Sport Travel Poster Come To Britain For Golf Rowland Hilder UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport themed travel poster - Come to Britain for Golf - Artwork by the notable British painter Rowland Hilder (1905-1933) featuring four men playing golf alongside a...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster SSAFA Soldiers Sailors Airmen Families Association
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - SSAFA Soldiers' Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association - The Fighting Man's link with his home. For Forces' Families Flag Day, September 3rd...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Rare Original Vintage Guinness Poster My Goodness Where's The Guinness Goose
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage Guinness poster - My Goodness where's the Guinness? - featuring fun artwork by the British graphic designer Alfred Ambrose Chew L...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Skiing Poster Dartmouth College Winter Carnival 1941 Ski USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing poster for the Dartmouth Winter Carnival held on 7-8 February 1941 featuring a dynamic design by Stanley Samuelson Pratt Institute depicting a skier wearing a...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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1946 Grenoble - Centenaire de La Salette Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning poster from 1946 creating in celebration of the Centenaire de La Salette or Centennary of Our Lady of La Salette in Grenoble. The Marian apparition was reported by two young...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster British Railways Handle Party Outing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Let British Railways Handle Your Party Outing - featuring a great graphic design of colourful hands holding a cut out paper chain of peop...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster BEA Lineas Aereas Britanicas London
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster issued by BEA - Lineas Aereas Britanicas - featuring a stunning design showing a plane flying from Madrid in Spain to Londres / London in E...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Brixen Bressanone Dolomiti Dolomites Tyrol Italy
By Filippo Romoli
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Bressanone m.560 Dolomiti Italy / Brixen in the Dolomites featuring a colourful design by Filippo Romoli (1901-1969) depicting a smilin...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage Sports Poster Olympic Games Helsinki 1940 Finland Athlete
By Ilmari Sysimetsa
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sports poster for the 1940 Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki Finland featuring a dynamic image depicting the sculpture ...
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Finnish Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage WWII Poster The Enemy Is Listening Careless Talk Secretary
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster issued in Nazi Germany - Hans schreibt seine Division kommt nach... pst! Feind hort mit! / Hans writes his division comes after... psst! The ene...
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German Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage World War Two Poster Fruits Of Victory National Savings WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - To Enjoy the Fruits of Victory Save Now - featuring a countryside illustration From the original by Rowland Hilder (1905-1993) depicting a rur...
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Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

1941 Dumbo (French) Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful poster of the classic Disney film Dumbo from the French release of the film. Released in 1941 by Walt Disney Productions & released by RKO Radio Pi...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Make Do And Mend Save Buying New Clothing Rationing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Make do and mend Save buying new - issued in support of the government campaign encouraging people to repair reuse and reimagine their clothes...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Political Poster, 'GALA FRANCO ESPAGNOL'
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original Vintage Political Poster, 'GALA FRANCO ESPAGNOL' This is an original vintage poster depicting Francisco Franco, who lead the Nation...
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Weymouth GWR SR Railway Map Express Train
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster advertising Weymouth and District Frequent Express Trains and Cheap Fares GWR Great Western Railway SR Southern Railway featuring a pictorial map of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis with significant locations and historical events marked on the map including illustrations in Weymouth Bay of sailing boats near the shore, navy battle ships, fishing boats and an angling description, the Shambles light ship, and the captions Weymouth ships captured two galleons from the Spanish Armada / Weymouth furnished 20 ships and 265 mariners for the Siege of Calais in 1345, as well as places of interest and sporting activities on land such as Roman remains and villa, the grave of Lawrence of Arabia, golf, people on horses, steam trains on routes marked in red through the hills, rivers, trees and towns, sub-tropical gardens, bird sanctuary, churches, the Race at Portland Bill...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Civil Defence Women Wanted For Evacuation Service
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster: Civil Defence, Women wanted for Evacuation Service, offer your services to your local council or any branch of Women's Voluntary Services. Imag...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage London County Council Poster Election Vote Conservative Union
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London County Council poster - LCC Election Thursday 7 March 1946 We've had enough socialist promises Now let's have houses Vo...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

1946 Cunard - Queen Elizabeth - Queen Mary Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning poster created in 1946 to promote Cunard and their cruises "Queen Elizabeth" and "Queen Mary" which operated from Cherbourg in France to New York...
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Unknown Vintage 1940s Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage London County Council Poster Freedom Vote Conservative Election
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London County Council poster - LCC Election Thursday 7 March You fought for freedom Break that link Vote Conservative - featur...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Airspan Travel Corsica Awaits You
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Airspan Travel Limited Corsica Awaits You... featuring an image of a plane flying above a map of Corsica island with a smiling lady in a red headscarf and Ajaccio marked on the map set...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Original Vintage London County Council Poster Election Give Best Chance In Life
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London County Council poster - LCC Election Thursday 7 March Give them the best chance in life Vote Conservative - featuring an illustration of a school boy making a...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

'Regards Sur L'Afrique' Original Vintage Poster by Jacques Bonneaud, 1944
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Regards Sur L'Afrique' Original Vintage Poster by Jacques Bonneaud, 1944 This poster is an original poster from 1944, there are slight signs of age such a fold marks which is consi...
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage Winter Sport Skiing Travel Poster Alpes And Jura PLM Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport and skiing travel poster - Alpes & Jura Eight days of winter sports A whole year of health / Huit jours de sports d'hiver Toute une annee de sante - fea...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

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