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"Two For The Road" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Very cool original Japanese film poster for Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney's, 1967
comedy. The artwork on this poster is unique to the Japanese release...
Category
Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Jungle Book
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card used in American cinemas to advertise Disney's classic animation in 1967.
The film featured the famous song The Bare Necessities by Terry Gilkyson.
This lobby ...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Pinocchio
Located in London, GB
Original British front of house card used inside the foyer of the cinema.
The artwork features the films scene where pinocchio takes his first steps.
Walt Disney's second animated fe...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paint
'Air France Paris' Original Vintage Travel Poster by Bernard Villemot, 1967
Located in Devon, GB
Air France commissioned French artist Bernard Villemot to design this dazzling poster to promote tourism to Paris in 1967. Primarily printed in blue and green, the painterly design f...
Category
French Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Kenju Zankoku Monogatari / Cruel Gun Story
Located in London, GB
Original rare Japanese film poster only used for showings of the film in Tokyo. This film was directed by Takumi Furukawa and starred Jo Shishido, Chieko Matsubara and Tamio Kawaji.
...
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Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Rail Travel Map Poster France Map SNCF National French Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage rail travel map poster - France Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais - featuring a colourful illustrated map by Jean Cheval and Alex Batany (as Cheval-Batan...
Category
French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Bicycle Advertising Poster I Also Have Peugeot Cycles France
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Peugeot bicycles featuring a countryside scene depicting a young boy showing off his shiny new Peugeot bike wi...
Category
French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Union Propaganda Poster Kazakhstan Anniversary KSSR USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Do you fulfill your obligations in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Kazakh SSR? - featuring an army soldier in military uniform point...
Category
Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Canadians Alert Buy Victory Bonds WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Canadians Alert! Come on Canada! Buy The New Victory Bonds - featuring an illustration by Archibald Bruce Staplet...
Category
Canadian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
La Notti Bianche / White Nights Original Italian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster for the 1957 drama, romance. Directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais.
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Dr. No
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production for the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962) Staring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. This film was directed by Terence Young. This piece is framed in...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Picasso Poster, Le Cubisme, Musée 1907-1914. National D'Art Moderne, Paris 1953
Located in Stockholm, SE
Vintage Original Pablo Picasso Lithographic Poster in colors, created for an exhibition at the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris (National Museum of Modern Art).
From the edition...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Rhodes Greece Acropolis Of Lindos TSS Olympia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage holiday travel poster - Greece on the Greek Line T.S.S Olympia Rhodes Acropolis of Lindos - featuring a colourful design depicting the ruins of pillars at the ancien...
Category
Greek Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Un Homme et une Femme / A Man and a Woman
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1966 French New Wave film Un Homme et une Femme / A Man and a Woman The cool art work on this poster is unique to the films first Japanese relea...
Category
Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Nijni Et Stone 'French Ballet'
Located in London, GB
Original French poster for Nijni et Stone French ballet poster from the 1930s
This wonderful Art Deco design was created by Obrad Nicolitch (1898-1979) ...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage Travel Poster Golden Ray Air Union Paris London Art Deco Maurus
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Paris London Golden Ray Air Union - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Edmond Maurus (1903-1977) depicting a Liore et Olivier LeO 21 biplane pla...
Category
British Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Paul Newman 'Hud' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1963
Located in Devon, GB
Evoking the wide, flat landscape and beating sun of the American West, this rare knockout poster for the original Japanese release of revisionist Western ‘Hud’ places Paul Newman cen...
Category
Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Antique New York Wall Map by Westermann
By Westermann
Located in Stockbridge, GB
Antique New York Map By Westermann
A rare early school pull down wall map of New York. The map shows the city of New York and its suburbs. Prin...
Category
British Schoolhouse Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Back Them Up WWII British Submarines
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Back Them Up! In the Mediterranean, British submarines have caused great havoc to Axis shipping - featuring a dramatic naval image of a Royal ...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Merchant Navy Thank You Gun Harold Forster WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster To The Merchant Navy - Thank You! Design by Harold Percy Forster (1895–1975) features two members of the Navy on board a ship at sea aiming a na...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
No Way Out
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1950 drama No Way Out.
This film was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starred Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. The art work is by the famous Am...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Sleeping Beauty
Located in London, GB
Original American film poster for Walt Disney's 1959 animation Sleeping Beauty.
This size poster would have had the times off the showing written in the blank area at the top of the...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
1951 An American in Paris Original Vintage Poster
By Roger Soubie
Located in Winchester, GB
The wildly successful "An American in Paris" was released in 1951 and went on to win 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, as well as the first ever Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy).
Originally based on the 1928 orchestral song composed by George Gershwin, the film stars the legendary Gene Kelly alongside Leslie Caron...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Swiss Travel Poster, Zurich Lakeside Garden
By Hugo Wetli
Located in New York, NY
Original 1960’s travel poster for the Zurich Lakeside Garden, with a design based on his painting by Hugo Wetli. Wetli (1916-1972) was a Swiss pa...
Category
Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
L'Avventura / Aventyret
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish film poster for the 1960 Italian film directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni and stars Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti. This poster is in excellent condition and unfold...
Category
Swedish Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
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...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Australia Air India Plane Cricket Fishing Wine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by Air-India International for Australia featuring stunning colourful illustrations of a plane flying over people working in a coal mine with a coal train loaded on a railway track above the bold title Australia on a yellow background, a kookaburra bird and historical and tribal artefacts, a kangaroo and a swordfish, grapes hanging over a glass of red wine, sheep, bull, cocoa pods on a tree and a cricket match with a kangaroo and an emu at the sides of the Australian coat of...
Category
Indian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Located in London, GB
Original British Front of house still for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937.
This piece would have been used to advertise the film inside the cinema foyer.
This piece was created...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Wear the 'FIGHTIN'EST' wings in the service" Vintage WWII Marines 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 Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage USSR Space Propaganda Poster Glory to Soviet Cosmonauts - Photo
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Glory to the Soviet Cosmonauts! - featuring an historic black and white photo of a line-up of smiling Soviet cosmonauts (astronauts) in un...
Category
Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
From Russia with Love
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the second James Bond film From Russia with Love 1963.
The film starred Sean Connery as James Bond 007 and was directed by Terence Young.
This poster...
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Recruitment Poster Life Guards Regular Army Marc Stone
By Marc Stone
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Army recruitment poster - Join the Regular Army It's a Real Man's Life - featuring a stunning image by the British artist Marcus Stone (1909-1991) of a royal...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Italy Travel Poster Bolzano Gries Dolomites Franz Lenhart
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Italy travel poster for Bolzano-Gries Centro Delle Dolomiti / Bolzano Gries Centre of the Dolomites featuring stunning ...
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Riga Intourist Visit USSR Soviet Latvia Cathedral
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Riga Visit USSR - Рига Посетите CCCP - issued by the Soviet state tourism agency Intourist featuring tourists exploring the historic city walking p...
Category
Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Asturias Spain Cantabrian Mountains Shepherd Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Asturias in Spain featuring an illustration by the Spanish artist Jose Morell (1899-1949) depicting a farmer with his dog by his side h...
Category
Spanish Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Goldfinger
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster.
This poster would have been used outside the cinema at the films original release in Japan, the artwork is unique to the films Japanese release.
Goldfi...
Category
Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Bus Stop
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1956 drama romanceBus Stop.
This film was directed by Joshua Logan and Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray
This poster is conservation linen backed and it...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Inlaid Marquetry Picture of a Sailboat
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
A boxwood marquetry wooden panel depicting a sailboat, framed.
Origin: English
Date: Circa 1940
Item Number: 3107248
Category
English Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Boxwood
1969 Led Zeppelin, Country Joe & the Fish - Fillmore West Original Vintage Poste
By Randy Tuten
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by the legendary concert poster artist Randy Tuten with D. Bread and Peter Pynchon, this beautiful poster was created in 1969 to promote a live concert of Country Joe & The Fish, Led Zeppelin and Taj Mahal at the world famous Fillmore West in San Francisco. Bill Graham events such as this were well known for their now iconic poster art, often vibrant & psychedelic whilst Graham ran Fillmore Auditorium & Fillmore West in the 1960s & 70s. The venue was best known for hosting the likes of the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Santana. Tuten's poster design is particularly notable for being such a departure from the many other concert, and even Led Zeppelin posters...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Olivetti Divisumma 24 Calculating Machine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Divisumma 24 calculating machine model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting numbers and symbols on rubber stamp...
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Formula One Race Motorsport Poster Silverstone Trophy F1 Racing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Formula One motorsport poster issued by the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) for the 13th International Trophy Meeting held at Si...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Den Fine Mand, Large Original Silkscreen Poster by Bjørn Wiinblad, 1957
By Bjørn Wiinblad, T. T. Serigrafi
Located in Dorchester, MA
Bjørn Wiinblad designed this whimsical silkscreen poster for a 1957 performance of Molière's play "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" at the Det Ny Teater in Copenhagen. This original poster, showcasing Wiinblad's assured use of unexpected color, was printed by T.T. Serigrafi, Copenhagen.
Framed; on Karlit wood fiber–based board...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Firenze Florence ENIT Italy Tuscany Palazzo
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Firenze / Florence in the Tuscany region of Italy renowned for its Renaissance art and architecture featuring a great design depicting a scen...
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Royal Exchange City of London Assurance
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Royal Exchange Assurance Incorporated A.D 1720 Fire Life Sea Accident & General Insurances - featuring a view by the notable British poster ar...
Category
British Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Large Original Vintage Billboard Poster Guinness For Strength Scuba Diver Whale
Located in London, GB
Rare billboard Size original vintage Guinness advertising poster - Guinness for Strength - featuring fun Mid-Century Modern image of a scu...
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British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Communism Destroys Family Spanish Civil War
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Spanish Civil War era propaganda poster - Communism Destroys the Family / El Comunismo Destruye la Familia - featuring an images in sh...
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Spanish Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
The Searchers / La Prisonniere du Desert
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian (1956) film poster for John Ford's Classic western The Searchers staring John Wayne and directed by John Ford.
This poster originally had a blank white top of 3 inc...
Category
Belgian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Gran Premio De Espana Spain Grand Prix Formula One Race
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Formula One GP motorsport poster for the World Championship Spanish Grand Prix Pedralbes Circuit / Gran Premio De Espana Circuito ...
Category
Spanish Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
WPA Poster “Mobilizing Michigan for Farm and Factory” by Maurice Merlin
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Incredibly rare, original WPA poster designed by Maurice Merlin, a prominent Detroit artist documenting the struggles of urban Michigan.
Poster mounted to ...
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Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paint, Paper
It Happened at the World's Fair
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1963 musical comedy film It Happened at the World's Fair.
This film starred Ellen Elvis Presley and was directed by Norman Taurog.
This poster is cons...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Yellow Submarine
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for The Beatles 1968 music animation.
The art work on this Japanese poster is unique to the films release in Japan.
The poster is unfolded and conservat...
Category
Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Bandol Cote d'Azur French Riviera Art Deco Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Cote d'Azur ete Bandol hiver Le pays du soleil et des fleurs / French Riviera summer winter The land of sun and fl...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
The Magnificent Seven
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the legendary western The Magnificent Seven 1960. This film starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson and James Coburn and was di...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
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...
Category
Spanish Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
The Big Knife
Located in London, GB
Original American style B movie poster for Robert Aldrich's 1955 drama staring Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger.
This poster is conservation paper b...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
The Thomas Crown Affair
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1968 romance, thriller directed by Norman Jewison and staring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway.
This poster is conservation paper backed and it would be s...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Located in London, GB
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Original British Quad (30 X 40 Inches)
Art by Frank McCarthy (1924-2002). The advertising department for the film's release led a wide-reaching campaign. ...
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Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Huge Original Maxime 1958 French Movie Poster by René Péron
By Rene Peron
Located in West Chester, PA
Original 1958 French movie poster by Rene Peron for the film Maxime directed by Henri Verneuil strarring Michèle Morgan and Charles Boyer. Large scale s...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
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