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Original Vintage World War Two Poster Britain's Sea Power Savings Navy Ship WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Britain's Sea Power Maintain it with your Savings - featuring a dynamic image of Royal Navy warsh...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Roussillon, Dali For SNCF Railways Butterfly Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Roussillon featuring butterflies and figures in a red frame with yellow lines of light from the centre and a person with a butterfly castin...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Recruitment Propaganda Poster Join The AIF Camel WWII Australia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two recruitment propaganda poster for the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF; 1939-1947) voluntary military forces - How she'll prize your letters from overseas Join the AIF - featuring a lady's hand holding a photograph of a soldier in army uniform...
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Australian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Vintage German Map Rhineland Rollable Wall Chart Poster Print
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A country core vintage pull-down map illustrating the popular German region of the Rhineland, published by Westermann. Colorful print on paper reinforced with canvas.
Measurements:
W...
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German Country Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Canvas, Wood, Paper
Irma La Douce
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card for Billy Wilder's 1963 comedy.
This film starred Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.
This piece would be shipped boxed and sent by Federal Express
The size gi...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
No Greater Sin or Le Plus Grand Peche
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the 1941 Exploitation film directed by William high and starring LeonAmes, Launa Walters.
The film would not have been released in Belgium until aft...
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Belgian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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 Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Jojo Festival For All Clown Dance Music Show Cabaret Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the JoJo Fest fur Alle - the Jojo Festival for Everyone on 4-5 February 1933 at the Rhein-Neckar Halle with Yoyo Girls the European Dance Champion K.R. Weinlein M. Seidel Erwin Schmieder and his Orchestra 22 Show booths Cabaret Art...
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German Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Aviation Propaganda Poster Glory Soviet Falcons USSR Pilots
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet aviation propaganda poster - Слава Советским Соколам! / Glory to the Soviet Falcons - featuring a dynamic military illustration of the red hammer and sickle f...
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Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Acapulco Aeronaves De Mexico Diving Golf Waterski
Located in London, GB
Original vintage air travel poster for Acapulco issued by Aeronaves De Mexico (Aeromexico; founded 1934) featuring a great image depicting scuba diving tanks and water sport equipment including a mask and fins with suitcases and bags, a golf set and skis as well as a fishing rod showing the available summer and winter sports during a holiday at the popular beach resort of Acapulco on the Pacific coast near the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains during the 1940s-1960s tourism heyday, all with hanging ACA luggage labels and stickers on them, the bold text above and below next to the eagle knight ACA logo that reflects the strong ancient Mexican...
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Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Bicycle Sport Poster New Successes Soviet Sports Cycling USSR
By V. Suryaninov
Located in London, GB
Original vintage bicycle sport poster - To New Successes in Soviet Sports / К новым успехам в советском спорте! - featuring a great graphic design depicting cyclists racing around a ...
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Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Sweet Smell of Success
Located in London, GB
Original 1955 British film poster.
This American film noir was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The film tells the story of a ruthless newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lan...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Where Danger Lives
Located in London, GB
Original US Title card for the 1950 film noir directed by John Farrow and Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains.
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
School Wall Charts, Fish Market of Helsinki
Located in Wolfurt, AT
Helsinki - Helsingfors
Fish market
Photo: Pietinen, Helsinki - Druck: Herder Druck Freiburg im Breisgau
Europa ET SCHOLA SDITIO Alphen aan den Rijin barcelona, Basel, Berlin,...
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Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
"White Heat / La Furia Umana" Original Italian Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for White Heat, 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney was synonymous with gangste...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster French Wine Bordeaux Margaux Lesparre
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for the Lesparre Medoc Wine Fair / Lesparre-Medoc Foire aux vins held from 1-3 August 1952. Colourful map design depicting radiating yellow ...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Bellboy and the Playgirls
Located in London, GB
Original US movie poster for Francis Ford Coppola's comedy sexploitation film staring June Wilkinson, Don Kenney.
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage Russian SciFi Movie Poster Battle Beyond The Sun Space Race
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Russian sci-fi movie poster for the film Nebo Zovyot / ???? ????? / Battle Beyond the Sun about a space race to be the first to land on Mars - a science fiction thriller directed by Mikhail Karzhukov and Aleksandr Kozyr, starring Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, K Bartashevich, Larisa Borisenko and Viktor Dobrovolsky. Striking illustration depicting a cosmonaut / astronaut standing in front of planets with a rocket flying in space in the background, the title and credit text below. (For the American release in 1962, Roger Corman had Francis Ford Coppola re-cut the film to add new footage and give the Russian characters American names to disguise the fact that it was a Russian movie...
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Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Graf Zeppelin Schreibers Models Junkers Flugzeug G38
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster advertising Schreibers Technische Modellierbogen / Technical Air Modelling kits featuring images of a Graf Zeppelin marked DLZ 127 and Junkers Flugzeug G38 aircraft on a blue background with the measurements and details on the side along with two other models listed, the Dornier-Flugschiff / airship and the Turbinen-Schnelldampfer Bremen Europe steamship with a note that many other models are available - und viele andere - all are described as being Leicht zusammenzubauen, genau garbeitet. Viele Tausende verkauft. Hier zu haben / Easy to put together, made precisely. Many thousands sold. Available to purchase here. Founded in 1831 by Jakob Ferdinand...
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German Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Fly Imperial Airways India Australia
By David Lee Theyre Elliott
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Fly by Imperial Airways India in three days Australia in eight days - featuring the stylised bold text over red map shapes of the UK and ...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Buy British Tom Purvis EMB Empire Marketing Board
By Tom Purvis
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board EMB to encourage people to help the economy following the Great Depression in America by buying British...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Airline Poster Indien Air France India Hindu Elephant Ganesha
By Jean Carlu
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting India issued by Air France - Indien Air France. Bold and colourful image by the French graphic designer Jean Carlu (1900-1997) featuring the ...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Ski Poster Pontresina Resort Switzerland Leupin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport ski poster for the popular resort of Pontresina in Switzerland featuring a fun and colourful illustration by the notable Swiss poster designer Herbert Leupin (1916-1999) of a snowy tree skiing with its head as a bright smiling sun smoking a pipe and wearing a hat and sunglasses against the blue sky background with branches wearing yellow gloves...
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Swiss Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Grand Hotel" Original American Program Cover
Located in London, GB
Original American Program Cover for the 1932 drama starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Joan Crawford.
The film was directed by...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese movie poster for Classic 1939 Gangster film starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Priscilla Lane. Directed by Raoul Walsh. The film did not get a release in Ja...
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Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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 Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Open Air Plays Szeged Hungary Theatre
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the Open Air Festival Plays of Szeged in Hungary from 23 July to 15 August 1938 featuring a great image depicting a view of the Votive ...
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Hungarian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
"Top Hat" Original Trade Advertisement
Located in London, GB
Original trade advertisement for Top Hat from 1935, Fred Astare's and Ginger's Rogers famous 1935 romantic musical.
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage Railway Poster Auvergne, Dali For SNCF Butterfly Abstract Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Auvergne featuring an iconic butterfly design by the renowned surrealist artist Salvador Dali (1904-1989) for the state owned French Na...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
"The Graduate" Original US Lobby Card
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 3 for Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross's, 1967 Classic drama directed by Mike Nichols.
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
S W, Original Poster Travel Poster, Vendée Venise Verte, Georges Clemenceau 1931
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Travel Poster for the Vendée and the Venise Verte dating from 1931 and signe S. W. (that we have unfortunately been unable to identify further).
This travel poster ...
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French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
La Notti Bianche/White Nights
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.
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Avec Le Sourire / with a Smile
Located in London, GB
Original French movie poster for Avec le Sourire / with a smile, 1936
staring Maurice Chevalier. The wonderful art work is by Jean-Adrien Mercier (1899-1995) one of Frances most res...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
"The Young Philadelphians / Ce Monde A Part", Original French Movie Poster
By Jean Mascii
Located in London, GB
Original French movie poster for Vincent Sherman's 1959 drama starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush.
The art work is by the acclaimed French poster designer Jean Mascii (1926-2003) and...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage Art Exhibition Poster Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait Painting
Located in London, GB
Original vintage art exhibition poster - Vincent van Gogh gemalde aquarelle zeichnungen / paintings watercolours drawings - organised by the Volkswagen werk AG Stadthalle Worfsburg a...
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German Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Nauc Se Veslovat Learn To Row Sport Technique Boat Types
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster - Nauc Se Veslovat / Learn To Row - featuring a black and white photo of a crew of eight rowers with a coxswain rowing against the blue background on th...
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Czech Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster Orient Line Australia Art Deco Summer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Art Deco cruise travel poster advertising Orient Line Tours and Round Voyage Tickets - It's Summer In Australia - featuring a great design by Frederick Halford Coven...
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British Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Jules Et Jim / Jules And Jim (1962)
Located in London, GB
Jules Et Jim / Jules And Jim (1962)
Original One Panel (47 x 63 Inches)
Jules et Jim filmed in 1962 was François Truffaut’s third film (after The 400 Blows in 1959 and Shoot the Pia...
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Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Barbara Stanwyck
Located in London, GB
Original black and white studio photographic still used to advertise Warner Brother's leading lady, Barbara Stanwyck in the 1940s.
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage Poster Norway Nature's Wonderland State Railway Travel Hiking
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Norway Nature's Wonderland featuring a scenic image of a couple on top of a hill pointing to trees and mountains in the distance with the stylized ...
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Norwegian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
"A Bedtime Story" Original US Film Poster
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare original US film poster for Maurice Chevalier's 1933 comedy romance. This film was directed by Norman Taurog.
This poster is conservation paper backed and it woul...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Hidden Room / Obession / Der Wahnsinn Des Dr. Clive, German Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original German film poster for the 1949 Crime, Thriller staring Robert Newton
and Sally Grey. The stuning artwork used on this poster is unique to...
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German Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Hair Theatre De La Porte Saint-Martin Original Vintage Poster, Circa 1960
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Hair theatre De La Porte Saint-Martin original vintage poster
This is an original vintage poster advertising the original production of the hit musical, HAIR. This image was also ...
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European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Art Deco Poster, 'Au Louvre Les Armes De La Femme', 1935
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original Vintage Art Deco Poster, 'Au Louvre Les Armes De La Femme', 1935
This poster has been linen backed for preservation. There are some slight fold marks,
ARTIST
Anonymous
...
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Large Rollable Map Central America Northern South America Wall Chart Poster
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A fantastic pull-down wall chart depicting a map of Central America and Northern South America. Used as teaching material in German schools. Colorful print on paper reinforced with c...
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German Country Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paper
The Devil's Hairpin / La Curva del Diavolo Original Italian Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1957 motor racing movie directed and staring Cornel Wilde.
This poster is linen backed and in excellent condition, with the colour remaining very...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Royal Mail Line Atlantis Cruises Istanbul Turkey
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Royal Mail Line Atlantis Cruises featuring artwork by the British poster designer Percy Padden (1885-1965) depicting a smiling boy with a monkey in the foreground and a view over trees to the city and sea below the blue sky background, the text on the margin below. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company America House Cockspur Street...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Lago Di Garda Lake Riva Torbole Italy Sailing Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ENIT travel poster for Lake Garda / Lago Di Garda Riva Torbole in Trentino Italy featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the Italian art...
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Italian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Audrey Hepburn 'Two for the Road' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Finnish, 1967
Located in Devon, GB
In a radical image update, 'Two For The Road' presented a new-look, more liberated Audrey Hepburn, dressed in the height of sixties mod fashion. The offbea...
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Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper, Linen
Original Vintage WWII Poster Guide The Fighter Planes Army Air Force Recruitment
Located in London, GB
Original vintage world war two recruitment poster - Guide the fighter planes Join the Army Air Forces Ground Observer Corps Volunteer at your local Civilian D...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Vallombrosa Saltino Tuscany Forest Railway Travel ENIT
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Vallombrosa-Saltino issued by the Italian tourist board ENIT (Ente Nazionale Italiano per il Turismo) and Italian State Railways featuring scenic a...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes / Rififi
Located in London, GB
Original British Movie poster. This posters was designed to be used in cinema display cases in the UK. The artwork was only used on the British poster.
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English Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
"Room at the Top, " Film Poster
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare original British film poster, The vast majority of British posters are 30 x 40
this rare British one sheet 41 x 27 was printed for to be used in Commonwealth cou...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster - Travel Canadian Pacific In Canada
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster: Travel Canadian Pacific in Canada comfortably and quickly to your destination. Colorful illustration of a ...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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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...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage USSR Poster American Lifestyle Crime Anti-USA Soviet Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet anti USA propaganda poster - American Lifestyle / ???????????? ????? ????? - featuring images depicting life in America including a...
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Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Brazil Rio Varig Super G Constellation Luxury Air Travel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Brazil Overnight Flights to Rio in Super G Constellation Luxury by Varig Airlines featuring a fun design depicting a bird wearing a red and...
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Brazilian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Child Found A Blind WWII Ammunition Shells Modernism
By Abram Games
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two bomb safety poster - This child found a 'blind' Accidents occur daily with blinds left on ranges Report all blinds for destruction at the end of the da...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
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