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Period: 1940s
The Outlaw
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1942 Western The Outlaw.
This film was produced and directed by Howard Hughes, and stars Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell and Jane Russell. It tells the story of Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster BSA The Real Quality Bicycle Design Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for BSA The Real Quality Bicycle featuring a smiling lady holding the handlebar of a new bike in front of a country cottage and trees below the bl...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster To The West USSR WWII Soviet Soldier War Propaganda Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Soviet propaganda poster depicting a soldier using his rifle gun to break down an arrow sign - Nach Osten ?? ?????? (Na Vostok / To The East) - nailed to a silver birch tree by the German forces pointing towards Russia with fighter planes flying in the blue sky overhead and Soviet soldiers...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Educational Poster Animal Welfare Bird Nest Fougasse Cartoon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage educational poster by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965) promoting the respect and care of animals featuring a fun illustration of a large angry bird looking at a startled person in a bird's nest on a tree with his hat flying up, the bold advice on the side - When you find a bird's nest, don't touch, don't stay long, don't go often. How would you like it yourself? - and information below - Notes and posters regarding Britain's wildlife and domestic animals and birds are available from UFAW (Universities Federation for Animal Welfare), 230 High Street, Potters Bar...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Great Americans Industrial War Work Military Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front propaganda poster - Great Americans don't take time off when our country needs so much so soon - featuring a man and a lady wearing goggles ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Maltese Falcon
Located in London, GB
A rare original US lobby card number for the 1941 Film Noir The Maltese Falcon.
The film Starred Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor and was was directed John Huston.
The piece ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Train To Be A Nurse WWII Clixby Watson
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Train to be a nurse... a distinguished career - featuring an illustration by Clixby Watson (Charles Clixby Watson; 1906-1964) depic...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster What It Takes To Win WWII Colonel Merritt Dieppe
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - What it takes to win / Ce qu'il faut pour vaincre - featuring a dramatic image of a soldier in military uniform running through a battlefield holding guns with soldiers and explosions behind him and helmets and barbed wire in the foreground, an extract in French from the citation awarding the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant-Colonel Merritt of the South Saskatchewan Regiment Dieppe on 19 August 1942 below - "When last seen...
Category
Canadian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Careless Talk Fougasse Transport WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965) from the popular and iconic Careless Talk Costs Lives...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Poster Amontillado Coquinero Osborne Sherry Map Bull Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Amontillado Coquinero Osborne Sherry / Xeres / Jerez Puerto de Santa Maria Espana featuring a great design depicting a bull above a bott...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Spellbound
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1945 Thriller was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll. Dr. Edwardes (played by Gr...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Little Whirlwind
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Walt Disney's 1941 short animation.
This is an exceptionally fare poster for the 1941 Mickey Mouse short.
There are belived to be no more than five of t...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Car Racing Poster Ecurie France Talbot Delahaye Motorsport Art
By Geo Ham
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motor sport poster - Ecurie France Talbot et Delahaye en Course - featuring a dynamic illustration by Geo Ham (Georges Hamel; 1900-1972) depicting two cars racing on...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Feeding 45 Millions Markets WWII F Taylor
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Feeding 45 Millions Markets - featuring artwork by the notable British artist Fred Taylor (1875-1963) depicting a wartime image of firefighter...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster RAF Coastal Command Lockheed Hudson Submarine Uboat
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster in Portuguese - A Gra-Bretanha Defensora Da Liberdade Captura do submarino alemao U 570 por um aviao britanico Lockheed 'Hudson' do C...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Merchant Navy Engine Room WWII Ore
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - If this Man lets the bearings run hot you may lose 8000 tons of ore Merchant Navy Comforts Service National Appeal Headquarters 62 ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Political Poster Strike Now In The West Communist Party GB
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two political propaganda poster issued by the Communist Party of Great Britain - Strike now in the West and finish th...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
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 ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Brighton Rock
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1947 Crome thriller Brighton Rock.
This film was directed by John Boulting and starred Richard Attenborough, Hermonie Baddeley, William Hartnell....
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Woman in the Window
Located in London, GB
Original Us Original production still for the 1944 Film Noir The Woman In The Window directed by Fritz Lang
and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett. Th...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Cry of the City" Original American Lobby Cards
Located in London, GB
Original American set of eight lobby cards for Robert Siodmak's 1948 film Noir staring Victor Mature, Richard Conte.
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
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 ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Set of 12 vintage post-war British design posters Council Industrial Design 1946
Located in Hastings, GB
Want a whole wall covered? Here's a set of 12 oak-framed original post-war British design quiz posters, produced by the Council of Industrial Design in 1946, presumably a tie-in to t...
Category
English Industrial Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Oak, Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Feeding 45 Millions Transport WWII Frank Mason
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Feeding 45 Millions Transport - featuring artwork by the notable British artist Frank H. Mason (Frank Henry Mason; 1875-1963) depicting a dyna...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet WWII Propaganda Poster Long Live Powerful Navy USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet World War Two propaganda poster - Long Live the Powerful Navy of the USSR / Да Здравствует Мощный Военно-морской Флот Ссср! - featuring a naval image of a fle...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
1942 Qualitee Francaise Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful rare poster urging people to go to Germany and be the ambassador of French quality or "Qualite Francaise".
Featuring stunning artwork attributed to Eric Castel depicting a...
Category
German Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Charles Kiffer Lithograph of Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful original Mid-Century Modern lithograph was created for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier, circa 1948. It features the actor don...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster For Martha's Vineyard By The New Haven Railroad
By Ben Nason
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Martha's Vineyard published by The New Haven Railroad featuring a bold illustration of a figurehead in front of a...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"It Always Rains on Sunday, " British Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1947 Ealing Studios drama.
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
"Wear the 'FIGHTIN'EST' wings in the service" Vintage WWII Marine Poster, 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster from 1942. The poster, a color lithograph, was printed by the Alpha Litho. Co., out of Camden, NJ. In the center of the composition appears a striking blue eagle, which tears apart a Japanese plane with its talons. The poster displays the slogan "Wear the FIGHTINEST wings in the service, Fly with the Marines" in bold letters above and below the image. On the bottom in black lettering is the phrase: "Apply, or write, to nearest recruiting station." The Marines logo appears in yellow in the top right hand corner of the composition, set against a red background.
The Second World War ushered in the biggest government-led advertising campaign to date, critical to the wartime communication needs of every combatant: from raising money, recruiting soldiers and boosting volunteer efforts, to spurring production and provoking outrage at enemy atrocities. The Office of War Information (OWI) commissioned some of the nation’s leading artists to produce the stark, colorful graphic designs. The posters played to the fears, frustrations, and faith in freedoms that lingered in people's minds during the war.
The most common themes found in the posters were the consequences of careless talk, supporting the war effort at home through conservation, victory gardens, and the purchasing of War Bonds, and anti-German and Japanese propaganda...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Cage of Gold" Original British Film Poster
By Sidney John Woods
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1950 Ealing Studios crime drama starring Jean Simmons, David Farrar and James Donald. The film was directed by Basil ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
T-Men
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1948 Film Noir T-Men
Directed by Anthony Mann and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder,
Wallace Ford.
This piece is paper backed and ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Red Shoes
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement Kinematograph weekly July 15th 1948
The film directed by the famous duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and is considered to be one of the...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
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...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Dutch Navy East Indies WWII Japanese Fleet Recruit
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Film Poster Ziegfeld Follies Fred Astaire Judy Garland Pin Up
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for an MGM film in Technicolour - Ziegfeld Follies - the Greatest production since the birth of motion pictures! featuring an all star cast including Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Gene Kelly and others, directed by Roy Del Ruth and Vincente Minnelli, and produced by Arthur Freed. Fun pin-up style design depicting a lady in a feather bird costume smiling at the viewer while holding a telephone with her other hand on her hip, the bold stylised title letter Z following the shape of her body with the text on the side against the yellow background. This musical film was a cinematic take on The Ziegfeld Follies theatrical production on Broadway New York City that ran from 1907 to 1931, inspired by the pretty pin up chorus girls...
Category
Australian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
It Always Rains on Sunday, British Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1947 Ealing Studios drama. This size poster is known as a door panel and is the rarest size poster on the title.
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Original Vintage WWII Warning Propaganda Poster Careless Talk Tragedy Wartime
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two warning propaganda poster - Careless Talk Brings Tragedy In Wartime - featuring numbered and captioned illustrations of 1. a young soldier on the phone...
Category
Canadian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
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...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster WWII Treasury Bills Vittoria Victory War Bonds Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Italian World War Two poster - Buoni del Tesoro Aprono iv varco a la vittoria / Treasury Bills open the way to victory - featuring a dynamic Greek Goddess design...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
House of Fear
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1945 Film Noir Mystery House of Fear.
This film starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
The film was directed by Roy William Neill.
This lobby card is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in an Obeche wood frame with card mounts and UV plexiglass. The Size given is before framing. The piece would be shipped boxed...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Engagez Vous Dans La Marine French Navy Recruitment WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two naval military recruitment poster Engagez-vous dans la Marine / Join the Navy featuring dynamic artwork of a warship at sea with the title in bold red ...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Stranger
Located in London, GB
Original British movie poster for the 1946 Film Noir directed by Orson Welles and starred Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles and Loretta Young. This po...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster New Zealand Fights for the Future Soldier Children
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - New Zealand Fights for the Future - featuring a peaceful image in shades of blue of children walking along a country road with tree...
Category
New Zealand Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
La Belle Et La Bete or Beauty and the Beast
Located in London, GB
Original Italian lobby card from the Classic 1946 fantasy film.
The film had it's first Italian release one year later in 1947.
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's novel, La Belle et la Bête...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Post War London Underground Transport Poster Piccadilly Circus
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage post-war London Underground Transport poster for London Piccadilly Circus featuring artwork by the notable British artist Fred Taylor...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Italy Breaks Chains That Suffocate Her WWII Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Italian World War Two poster featuring a dynamic image of a soldier in uniform breaking a chain with the caption in red reading - l'Italia spezza le catene che la so...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Glorify Our Homeland Comrades With Work USSR Industry
By M. Solovyov
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Let us glorify our homeland, comrades, with work! / ????????? ???? ??????, ????????, ??????! - featuring an illustration of a young blond ...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster New Zealand Fights WWII Military History
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - New Zealand fights - featuring a colorful bold design depicting a New Zealand soldier in uniform and wearing a helmet leaning on hi...
Category
New Zealand Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Poster 5 Million Guinness For Strength Every Day Steel
By John Gilroy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the iconic drink Guinness Irish stout beer - 5 Million Guinness for strength every day - featuring a smil...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Build Prosperity Save Now WWII Savings
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - To Build for Prosperity ... Save Now - featuring an old church building in ruins with scaffolding...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Great Expectations" Original Belgian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian movie poster for David Lean's film adaptation of Charles Dickens famous novel. The artwork on this poster is unique to the film B...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Posters
Festival Mondial Du Film Beau-Arts De Belgique
By Felix Labisse
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the Festival Mondial du Film Beau-Arts de Belgique (La Naissance du Cinema Lumiere Melies)
Mondial du Film et Des Beaux-Artsheld in Brussels, Belgiu...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Posters
Rope
Located in London, GB
Original gloss finish studio photographs, gloss for Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 thriller Rope.
This classic Hitchcock film starred James Stewart, J. Dall and Farley Granger.
This piece...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster GPO 8 Million Telephone Calls Modernism Pat Keely Post
By Pat Keely
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster published by the General Post Office GPO - 8,000,000 telephone calls a day - featuring a great graphic design by the notable British artist Pat Keely (Patrick Cokayne Keely; 1901-1970) depicting the large numbers in deep red across the image with telephone handsets...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Shop Around the Corner
Located in London, GB
Original black and white photographic production still used to send out to the press to advertise The 1940 comedy romance drama The Shop Around the Corner...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Transatlantique French Line Le Havre Southampton
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - Cie Gle Transatlantique French Line Le Havre Southampton New York - featuring artwork by the French artist Albert Brenet (1903-2005) depicting an ocean liner sailing at sea with the stylised title text above and against the choppy white waves below. Founded in 1861 (having been established in 1855 by the brothers Emile and Issac Pereire), the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique CGT was a French shipping company known as French Line and Transat; it merged with Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
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
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