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Period: 1950s
Original Vintage Railway Poster Royal Albert Bridge Saltash Cuneo Devon Cornwall
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway poster in celebration of the 1859 Centenary 1959 Royal Albert Bridge Saltash Designed and built by Isambard Kingdom Br...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster French West Africa Map Afrique Occidentale Francaise Art
By alain cornic
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster featuring an illustrated map of French West Africa / Afrique Occidentale Francaise marking the capital cities, towns, ports, Sahara Desert and rivers in Mauri...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage French Release Film Poster The Wild Blue Yonder WWII Bomber B29
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the French release of the 1951 film about the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber training and air raids on Japan during WWII - The Wild Blue Yonder / ...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Rail Travel Poster Inverness Scotland British Railways Highland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage rail travel poster for Inverness The Capital Of The Scottish Highlands See Britain By Train British Railways featuring artwork depicting The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Marching Along Ness Walk by Lance Cattermole (1898-1992). Great painting showing the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders military marching band in their tartan kilt...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Public Health Poster Rabies Prevention In Dogs USSR Pioneer Boy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet public health poster for the prevention of rabies / ????????? in dogs featuring a freaky looking young Pioneer boy starin...
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Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Feria Muestrario Trade Fair Valencia Spain
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the XXXIII Feria Muestrario Internacional / International Trade Fair held in Valencia from 1-15 May 1955 featuring an elegant bird flying with its wings outstretched in front of an image of an industrial gear cog...
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Spanish Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Poster J Fin Toros Galerie Verneuil Bullfighting
Located in London, GB
Original vintage exhibition poster for J Fin Toros / Bullfighting held at Galerie Verneuil from 20 December 1955 to 15 January 1956 featuring an illustration by the Spanish painter J...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Tales of Hoffmann
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for The Tales of Hoffmann 1951.
This film was directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and stars Moira Shearerand Robert Rounseville.
This po...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Bus Stop (1956)
Located in London, GB
Bus Stop (1956)
Double Crown (20 X 30 Inches)
Tom Chantrell's artwork of Marilyn Monroe on this poster is regarded by many as the best image of her in any of her film posters. Very ...
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Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
"Sirocco / Damasco 25" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1951 film Sirocco.
This poster was designed by the great Italian poster artist Anselmo Ballester (1897-1974) The film was released in Italy one ...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Tokyo Monogatari / Tokyo Story
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1953 drama directed by Yasujiro Ozy.
The film starred Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama.
One of Japan’s most celebrated and prolific directors, Yasujiro Ozu directed fifty-four films over the course of his life. Ozu cultivated an unmistakable aesthetic with the help of several long-term collaborators, including the scriptwriter Kogo Nada. Director and writer shared a vision, and are said to have developed ideas for their films together over glasses of sake, in the dead of night. The resulting films are as intimate as the process of conceiving them. Ozu was primarily interested in the shomin-geki tradition of storytelling, in which the focus lies on the lives of ordinary people and families. Many critics consider Tokyo Story...
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Japanese Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Poster ERP Europe All Our Colours To The Mast Ship
By Reyn Dirksen
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda poster for the post-war US sponsored ERP European Recovery Program (1948) known as the Marshall Plan - Europe All our Colours to the Mast - featuring a fa...
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Dutch Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Spellbound / Io ti Salvero
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Spellbound, 1945
This film noir was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll. Dr. Ed...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Ski Poster Hiver En Allemagne Germany Winter Ice Skating Sledge
By Hanns Lohrer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski and winter sport travel poster - Winter in Germany / Hiver en Allemagne - featuring a fun design by Hanns Lohrer (1912-1995) depicting people enjoying winter sports and skiing on a snowy ski slope in the shape of a smiling snowman on a pale blue background, including a person on a chair lift riding up through the image past a person relaxing in a striped deck chair to a mountain chalet building on the snowman's hand, a lady elegantly ice skating on its head, a skier skiing at speed down the piste, a cross country skier...
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German Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Poster Fernand Leger Haus Der Kunst Birds Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for an exhibition of work by Fernand Leger (1881-1955) held at the Haus der Kunst Munchen from 20 March to 12 May 19...
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German Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Underground Poster - Psychology Pstudent at Horse Guards
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the London Underground by the notable graphic designer Frederic Henri Kay Henrion (1914-1990) featuring a surreal modernist collage of trains and engines inside the outline of a leaping figure off to see the changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace with the London Transport roundel logo as its mouth and a train as its shadow against the colourful background, a black and white photograph of a royal guard on a horse below and the text reading: A psychology pstudent of Pstaines Psaid his ego was pshattered by trains Pso he took it to see The pceremony Of the Changing of the Guard which takes place every morning at the Horse Guards...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Il Mostro della Via Morgue, " Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1954 Horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Karl Malden and Claude Dauphin. The film is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motorbike Advertising Poster Mazoyer Moto Paris Motorcyle
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorbike advertising poster for Moto Mazoyer Paris Vitesse Confort Souplesse Securite avec la nouvelle 500 c3 sport Mazoyer Motorcycles Speed Comfort Flexibility Sa...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1951 Comedy, Horror Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.
The film was directed by Char...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Iberia Airline Spain Flamenco Lockheed Espana
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Fly Iberia to Spain - featuring artwork of two flamenco dancers dancing back to back in traditional dress, the lady wearing a yellow ruffled dress...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Mata Hari
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster from the 1931 film that was broadly based on the life of Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was a German spy during World War I. Greta Garbo starred as the title role, alongside Ramon Novarro and Lionel Barrymore...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
T-Bird Gang
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1959 film T-Bird Gang.
The film tells the story of a high school boy who is out to find his father's killer and teams up with a gang of juvenile deli...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Fly BOAC & Qantas Australia Postage Stamp Design
By Xenia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage BOAC travel advertising poster: Fly by BOAC & Qantas - Australia - British Overseas Airways corporation in association With Qantas Empire Airways Limited, South Afri...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Art Poster Guggenheim New York Pablo Picasso Paris Exhibition
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for the Solomon R Guggenheim New York Collection art exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris held from April to June 1958 - Collection S Guggenhe...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster China Navigation Australia To The Orient
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - China Navigation Co Ltd Australia to the Orient By the New British Liners MV Changsha M.V. Taiyuan - featuring a stunning night view by Harold...
Category
Australian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
War of the Worlds / La Guerra dei Mondi
Located in London, GB
Original Italian posters for the 1953 science fiction film War of the Worlds.
This artwork on this poster was created for the films 1960s re-...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Rio Brazil S. America Sugarloaf Cable Car Braniff
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Rio de Janeiro issued by Braniff International Airways featuring a colourful cartoon illustration of tourists on a red cable car with people enjoyi...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Poster World Peace Movement Nuclear Death Dove Skull
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda poster - Gegen Atomtod! Fur Frieden! 10 Jahre Weltfriedensbewegung / Against nuclear death! For peace! 10 years of the world peace movement - featuring an...
Category
German Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Water Sport Poster Youth Practice Rowing USSR Propaganda
By Maxim Gleikh
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet sport poster promoting water sports - Youth, practice rowing! - featuring a young man rowing in the foreground with a sailing boat and two other rowing boats ...
Category
Russian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Poster Fabre Line Marseilles Mediterranean New York
By Tonelli
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - Fabre Line Marseilles Mediterranean New York - featuring a great graphic design depicting a steam ship sailing across the ocean inside an arro...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Tales of Hoffmann
Located in London, GB
Original British photographic production still for The Tales of Hoffmann 1951.
This British fantasy opera was written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film is an adaptation of the opera of the same name by Jacques Offenbach. The film stars Robert Rounseville, Moira...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Marty
Located in London, GB
Original East German film poster for the 1955 drama romance Marty.
The film was directed by Delbert Mann and starred Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair.
This cool poster was designed ...
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German Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Deadly is the Female / Gun Crazy
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1950 film Deadly is the Female.
This American film noir was directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stars Peggy Cummins and John Dall. It tells the story of a gun crazed husband and wife duo who go on a robbery spree. The film did not do well on it's release and was withdrawn and re named and released as gun crazy...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Sport Poster Equestrian Games Stockholm Summer Olympic Games
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster for Equestrian Games of the XVI Olympics 1956 / Reiterspiele Der XVI Olympiade hosted by Stockholm from 10 to 17 June 1956 for the dressage, eventing (d...
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Swedish Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Le Salaire de la Peur / The Wages of Fear / Vita Vendute
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1953 adventure thriller film Le Salaire de la Peur / The Wages of Fear.
This film was directed by Henri-Georges...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage British Railways Train Travel Poster Royal Tunbridge Wells
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways train travel poster for Royal Tunbridge Wells featuring an illustration of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Room for One More / C'e Posto per Tutti
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Room for One More, 1952.
This comedy was directed by Norman Taurog and starred Cary Grant, Betsy Drake.
The poster is in excellent condition, wit...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster India Varanasi Ganges Banaras Uttar Pradesh
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Varanasi / Banaras in India featuring a colourful mid-century design showing people in traditional clothing and sari dresses under umbrellas agains...
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Indian Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Military Recruitment Poster Commando Life Join Royal Marines
Located in London, GB
Original vintage military recruitment poster - A Commando's Life Join the Royal Marines - featuring artwork depicting a troop of soldiers wearing green berets and camouflage uniform ...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Room for One More / C'e Posto Per Tutti
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Room for One More 1952.
This comedy was directed by Norman Taurog and starred Cary Grant, Betsy Drake.
The poster is in excellent condition, with...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
House of Wax / La Maschera di Cera
Located in London, GB
Original exceptionally rare Italian poster, that has only surfaced a few times.
This American colour 3-D horror film was directed by Andre DeToth and stars Vincent Price. It was a r...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Blithe Spirit
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for Davis Lean's 1945 Comedy, Fantasy film starring Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings
This is probable the best looking and most beautiful poster from a...
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Japanese Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Africa Travel Poster Ivory Coast Cote d'Ivoire Elephant Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Africa travel poster for the Ivory Coast - Republique de Cote d'Ivoire - featuring a colourful illustration of elephants under liana vines and a monument below on a ...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Kumonoso / Throne of Blood
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese Souvenir program cover for Throne of Blood 1957
This war, drama directed Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune.
The film is a ...
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Japanese Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Morocco North Africa Exhibition Sale Galeries Modernes
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for a Morocco exhibition and sale of works from 20 March to 15 April at the Galeries Modernes in Utrecht / Marocco Tentoonstelling (tevens verkoop) featuring a great illustration of a lady in a white niqab headdress with examples of traditional Moroccan architecture...
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Dutch Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
The Young Philadelphians
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1959 Drama staring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush andAlexis Smith.
This film was directed by Vincent Sherman.
This poster was designed by Bill Gold (1921...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Pajama Game
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1957 Musical comedy staring Doris Day and John Raitt and directed by George Abbott, Stanley Donen.
This poster is conservation linen backed and it wo...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Bwana Devil
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1953 3-D adventure film Bwana Devil, starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce. The film was directed by Arch Ob...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
40" Tall Sepia Hollywood Starlett Photograph Jean Harlow Mounted to Pressboard
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This glamorous 1950s matte poster-size photograph captures Hollywood icon Jean Harlow in an alluring yet tasteful pose. She gazes upward with a dreamy expression, her signature plati...
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Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
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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British Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Drie Sleutels Les Trois Clefs Lemon Vinegar
Located in London, GB
Original vintage food advertising poster for Zele De Drie Sleutels Les Trois Clefs / Three Keys lemon vinegar featuring an illustration of a flower as petals around a smiling lady's ...
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Belgian Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for Jacques Tati's 1953 comedy that he directed and starred in.
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Japanese Vintage 1950s Posters
"All That Heaven Allows" Original US Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Douglas Sirk's 1955 Melodrama staring Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman. This large poster was printed in two sheets as it was designed to...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
“D.O.A ? Dead on Arrival”, US Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original style B US movie poster for the 1950 crime film D.O.A. directed by Rudolph Mate and starring
Edmond O'Brien.
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
Original Vintage Travel Poster Rome Via TWA Neptune Fountain City Skyline Italy
By David Klein
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Rome via TWA Trans World Airlines featuring a colourful design by the notable American artist David Klein (1918-2005) depicting the historic Fountain of Neptune / Fontana del Nettuno in the foreground and a sketch outline of the city in the background, a Lockheed Constellation plane...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Woman in the Window / La Donna Del Ritratto
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for Fritz Langs 1944 Film Noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett
This atmospheric poster was designed for the films Belgian re-release in the 19...
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Belgian Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Barcelona Spain Travel Art Flowers Ship Design Tourism
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Barcelona issued by the Municipal Office of Tourism and Information featuring colourful artwork depicting a red sun umbrella above flowers in front...
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Spanish Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
House of Wax, US Title Lobby Card for the 1953 3D Horror Movie
Located in London, GB
Original US Title Lobby Card for the 1953 3D Horror movie staring Vincent Price.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Posters
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