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Period: 1940s
Brief Encounter
Located in London, GB
Original British photographic studio production for the 1945 Drama Romance staring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and directed by David Lean. The film is undoutable ...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Film Poster For Government Girl Olivia De Havilland Sonny Tufts
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cinema poster for a romantic movie set in Washington DC during World War Two - Government Girl - directed by Dudley Nichols and starring Olivia de Havilland...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Odd Man Out
Located in London, GB
Original British Film poster from the first release of the film in the UK in 1948 Odd Man Out is a classic British film that fits the film noir definition...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Linen, Paper

Original Vintage Poster United Nations For Freedom From Fear Seaside Beach Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda poster - United Nations for Freedom from Fear - featuring a colourful illustration of smiling parents sitting on a beach ...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

I Know Where I'm Going
Located in London, GB
Original US black and white photographic production still used by the studio to advertise the film. these stills were sent out to news papers. This production still is from the films...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Cycling Race Poster Vuelta Ciclista Cataluna Race Spain Pirelli
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cycling poster for the XXV Vuelta Ciclista a Cataluna V Gran Premio Bodas de Plata / XXV Catalonia Cycling Tour V Gra...
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Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters

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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...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Gran Premio Pena Motorista Barcelona Montjuic
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster for the Gran Premio Pena Motorista Barcelona Circuito de Montjuich / Grand Prix Pena Motorista Barcelona Montjuic Circui...
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Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Save Tractor Fuel Tankers Feed The Tanks WWII Military
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front poster - Save tractor fuel Release the Tankers to feed the Tanks - featuring the bold text above and over an image of a tanker ship and silh...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Salute The Soldier The Liberator Save Lend More
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Salute The Soldier The Liberator Save More Lend More - depicting an army soldier in military uniform armed with a gun and stepping forward int...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Son of Fury / Il Figlio della Furia
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1942 film Son of Fury starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney and George Sanders. This film was directed by John Cromwel...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Conflict
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still used by the studio to advertise the film. these stills were sent out to news papers. This piece shows a great image of Humphrey Bogart as archi...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Early 20th Century Butlins Lithograph Advertising Poster
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century Butlins lithograph advertising poster A charming, fun, and rare example of a 1940s lithograph advertising poster for Butlins fair. Produced by Willsons, Printers of Leicester. The advert is written in the form of a £5 reward for a lost grey parrot...
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British Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Road Safety Poster Road Accidents Royal Air Force RAF Military
Located in London, GB
Original vintage road safety poster - Road Accidents in the Royal Air Force average 2 an hour That's two too many! - featuring a great graphic design depicting a clock face on a yellow and blue shaded background with an image of a military truck behind the hands of the clock as an RAF plane...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Telephonez! Swiss Telecom Girl And Dog Advertising Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Swiss Telecom - Telephonez! - featuring an adorable illustration by Donald Brun (1909-1999) depicting a young girl ...
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Swiss Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Advertising Poster Totem Pole Saturday Evening Post WWII Clymer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two period poster advertising The Saturday Evening Post magazine issued on 31 January 1942 featuring a cover art design by Jo...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster 25th Anniversary Komsomol USSR WWII Soviet Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Soviet propaganda poster - Long Live the 25th Anniversary of the Leninist-Stalinist Komsomol! Dynamic artwork depicting soldiers and workers marching f...
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Russian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster French Resistance Voix Du Maquis Fighters Magazine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster advertising La Voix Du Maquis / The Voice of Maquis bi-monthly magazine issued by the National Federation of Maquis featuring a bold Art Deco style illustration of a soldier wearing a beret hat with a logo on it and his mouth open in speech set against the blue, white and red colours of the French flag with the text below the image - Dit Tout Pense Jeune / Says it all Think young On sale at all depositories on the second and fourth Saturday of each month Prices 3 francs. Formed in c.1943, the Maquis French Resistance...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Pictorial Map Poster Ceylon Tea And Other Industries Sri Lanka
Located in London, GB
Original vintage pictorial map poster for Ceylon Her Tea & Other Industries featuring artwork by the notable British cartographer, graphic design...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Propaganda Poster Beware Wasp Design War Production Drive
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster issued by the War Production Drive Headquarters as a warning featuring a dramatic design depicting a large angry looking flying insect - bee / wasp / mosquito - with black and yellow stripes outlined in blue, facing the viewer with the word Beware! written in bold blue font across the image over the wings in front of a white and yellow shaded background. Bulletin Board...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Ceylon Beach Picnic Sri Lanka Asia Holiday Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Ceylon featuring a great illustration showing a lady in a traditional sari dress leaning against a palm tree on a sandy beach with people on ...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Royal Netherlands Navy Koninklijke Marine War Ships
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - They keep our colours high! What are you doing? / Zij Houden Onze Kleuren Hoog! Wat doet gij? - featuring an illustration by Jan Ve...
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Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster To The Merchant Navy Thank You WWII Thumbs Up Artwork
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - To the Merchant Navy Thank You! - featuring two men wearing suits and hats and holding briefcases, one smoking a pipe, showing their thumbs up...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Mark of Zorro / Il Segno Di Zorro
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1940 adventure romance film The Mark of Zorro. This film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian The cast includes Tyrone Power...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

White Heat
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card number 5 for White Heat 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Canadian WWII Poster Help Finish The Job Buy Victory Bonds
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - It's in your hands Help finish the job Buy Victory Bonds - featuring a colourful design depicting a hand holding a crown topped yellow gold $ dollar sign as a sword piercing a green dragon marked with a German Nazi...
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Canadian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster The Enemy Will Be Destroyed Stalin WWII USSR Victory
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Our cause is right The enemy will be destroyed Victory will be ours - featuring an image of Stalin pointing forward in front of a r...
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Ukrainian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Join The Army Nurse Corps WWII Red Cross Recruitment USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two recruitment poster calling for nurses - You are needed now Join the Army Nurse Corps Apply at your Red Cross recruiting station - featuring an elegant photo by the notable American photographer Ruzzie Green (Kneeland L'Amoureux Green; 1892-1956) of a young lady in a smart US Army uniform with an Army Nurse Corps branch insignia badge on the lapels of her jacket set against a light blue background. Established in 1901, the United States Army Nurse Corps' successful recruitment campaign during WWII increased the number of nurses from a thousand at the beginning of the war to 65,000 in both the Army and Army Air Force...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster The Downfall Of The Dictators Is Assured RAF Berlin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster entitled R.A.F day raiders over Berlin's official quarter The Downfall of the Dictators is Assured featuring dynamic artwork of British de Havilland Mosquito planes dropping bombs over Berlin in Germany with the Royal Air Force RAF roundel visible on the aircraft and Nazi flags...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Newquay On The Cornish Coast GWR Cornwall Beach
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for Newquay On The Cornish Coast issued by GWR Great Western Railway featuring a scenic view of peopl...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster An Open Window On Life Education Sport Health Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport and health propaganda poster issued by the General Commission for General Education and Sports - Une Fenetre ouverte sur la vie / An open window on life - feat...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Swissair Switzerland Flag Swiss Alps Mountain Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Swissair featuring a fantastic illustration of a propeller plane flying high over the Swiss Alps with a red and white cross Swiss flag...
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Swiss Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Rush British Arms To Russian Hands Strong As Steel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Soviet War Poster Rush British arms to Russian hands - featuring a cartoon style caricature illustration by Nikolai Radlov (1889-19...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Map Poster Marruecos Espanol Spanish Morocco Illustrated Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel map poster for Marruecos Espanol / Spanish Morocco featuring a great illustration of an outline of the Africa contin...
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Spanish Art Deco Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

The Lady from Shanghai
Located in London, GB
Original Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly March 18th 1948 This Film Noir The Lady from Shanghai starred Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles and...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Back Them Up Britain's New Airborne Army In Europe
By Leslie Oliphant
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Back Them Up! Britain's new Airborne Army goes into action in Europe - featuring a dynamic battle scene depicting British soldiers in uniform wearing their maroon berets (the Red Berets of the Parachute Regiment created in 1942; nicknamed the Rote Teufel / Red Devils by the German troops) jumping out of a glider plane with their guns firing...
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European Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Juke Girl
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1942 crime mystery film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and staring Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan. This poster is conservation linen backed and it would b...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Dodecanese Liberation Day 9th May 1946 WWII Allied Flags
Located in London, GB
Original vintage post World War Two poster celebrating the first anniversary of the Allied liberation of the Dodecanese islands from the occupying Na...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Find Your War Job Industry Agriculture WWII Home Front
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster distributed by the Office of War Information to encourage employment on the home front featuring an illustr...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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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...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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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...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

The Phantom of the Opera / Il Fantasma Dell' Opera
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1943 Horror film The Phantom of the Opera. This film was directed by Arthur Lubin. The cast includes Nelson ...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Wanted For Murder Careless Talk Costs Lives Warning
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Wanted! For murder Her careless talk costs lives - featuring a black and white photo of a ...
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Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster The French Speak The Spy Listens The German Acts
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - The French Speak The Spy Listens The German Acts / Le Francais Parle L'Espion Ecoute L'Allemand Agit -...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Closed For The Duration Loose Talk Can Cost Lives WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Loose Talk Can Cost Lives Closed for the Duration - featuring great artwork by Howard Scott (1902-1983) depicting a man with tape s...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Advertising Poster Philips Lighting Smiling Light Bulb Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Philips light bulbs featuring a fun design by Frank Nanninga (1920-1999) depicting a cartoon lightbulb with arms and legs, a smiling face and ...
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Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Hotel Candanchu Canfranc Verano Summer Mountains
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Hotel Candanchu in Canfranc at an altitude of 1600m captioned Verano / Summer featuring a great illustration of the Aragon Valley with a view o...
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Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Air Training Corps Royal Air Force Cornwall Recruit
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two recruitment propaganda poster for The Air Training Corps featuring the text - No 24F Penzance Squadron Young Men betw...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Angels with Dirty Faces
Located in London, GB
Original US black and white photographic production still for Faces 1938. This still was were sent out to newspapers to advertise the re-release of the film in the 1940s The film w...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Drink Poster Have A Guinness When You're Tired Smiling Pint Man
Located in London, GB
Original vintage iconic drink advertising poster for Guinness Irish stout beer - Have a Guinness when you're tired - featuring a classic image of a pint glass...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

The Killers
Located in London, GB
Original Us Black-and-white single weight glossy studio still photo for the wonderful 1946 Film Noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starred Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. These prod...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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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 ...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Men Working Together US Military Home Front Workers
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Men Working Together! - featuring a US Army soldier and Navy sailor in military uniform standing behind a smil...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Winter Sports In Austria Alps Mountains Snowball Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster - Winter Sports in Austria - featuring artwork by Paul Aigner (1909-1984) depicting a fun image after a snowball fight of a smiling lady with snow ...
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Austrian Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Back Them Up British Commando Raid On A Norway Port
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Back Them Up! Dynamic battle scene illustration featuring British soldiers with bayonet rifle guns running down a hill towards a Ge...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Art Deco French Film Poster “le schpountz” de M.Pagnol
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Film poster le Schpountz de Marcel Pagnol with Fernandel from the 40’s This film poster is made by Alfred Jorio in imprimerie monégasque Monaco.  New frame with glass.
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Monacan Art Deco Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Free Holland Welcomes The Soldiers Of The Allies WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Free Holland Welcomes the Soldiers of the Allies / Welkom in het vrije Nederland! Dynamic design by the...
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Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters

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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...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters

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Paper

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