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Period: Mid-20th Century
Original Vintage War Poster Attack Begins In The Factory Bomber WWII Nockolds
By Roy Nockolds
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - The Attack Begins in the Factory - featuring an aerial view by Roy Anthony Nockolds (1911-1979) of British RAF Royal Air Force bomber planes l...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
High Society
Located in London, GB
Original colour photographic production still for the 1956 classic comedy, musical starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. The film was remake of the 19...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Lovely Day For A Guinness Irish Stout Gilroy
By John Gilroy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the iconic drink Guinness Irish stout beer with the quote in red - Lovely Day For A Guinness - above ...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Cleo DE 5 A 7 / Cleo from 5 To 7
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the 1962 French New Wave film staring
Corinne Marchand and Antoine Bourseiher.
This film was directed by Agnes Varda and has also been signed by Agn...
Category
Belgian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Leonetto Cappiello, Vintage Poster, Thermogene, Cough, Devil, Clown, 1940
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster for Chest Rub Thermogene dating from 1940 by Leonetto Cappiello.
Artist: Leonetto Cappiello (1875 - 1942)
Title: Le Thermogène
Date: 1940
Size: 28.6 x 38.4 in / 79,6 X 120 cm
Printer : DEHON & Cie. Valenciennes_Paris
Materials and Techniques: Colour lithograph on paper
Linen backing: Yes
Condition: A (Normally designates a poster in very good condition. Colours are fresh and there is very little or no paper loss. Any imperfections are marginal and unnoticeable).
Details:
Poster for the promotion of Thermogene, a medical product that creates heat.
"The Thermogene generates heat and fights: coughs, rheumatism, side points etc ..."
This poster is a 1940 reissue from the original 1909 poster...
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French Belle Époque Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Roman Holiday
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1953 classic romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler, and stars Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best ...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Rousen Les Essarts Grand Prix 1959 Car Racing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster for the 7th Rouen les Essarts Grand Prix and the 4th Delamare Deboutteville Cup on 12 July 1959 - Septieme Grand Prix Rouen les Essarts 4me Coupe D...
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster London Blitz Bombarded Street War Office Training
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Street Scenes Series Fig. 2 (to be viewed at 4-5 yards) - issued by the War Office and intended for rifle shooting directional training featuring artwork by Beric Young (1902-1963) depicting a war torn London street scene with damaged buildings and broken windows, fallen pylons, a tank under rubble from a bank, a double decker bus on its side and an ambulance crashed into a bomb crater in the road, the colourful image including trees, factories and chimneys, a Co-Op Cooperative Stores shop and a hospital on the hills in the background, London Underground stations and a clock tower in the centre, a teashop, church spire, camouflage tank, railway train signals...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Mar Del Plata Spa Sea Argentina Art Deco Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Mar Del Plata El Gran Balneario / The Great Spa featuring a dynamic Art Deco design by the Argentine painter Ernesto Scotti (1901-1957) depicting t...
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Argentine Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Lolita
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1962 film staring James Mason and Shelley Winters and Peter Sellers.
This size poster would have had the times off the sho...
Category
American 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
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster Royal Mail Line Art Deco Kenneth Shoesmith
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel advertising poster for Royal Mail Line featuring a great design by the British maritime artist Kenneth Denton Shoesmith (1890-1939) depicting an ocean liner ship with red funnels and different coloured lights shining from the windows sailing across the choppy blue sea at speed in front of a dynamic bold yellow sky background, two blank yellow and blue information boxes below not filled in with details of the times and destinations, decorated with the diagonal red cross and crown house flag...
Category
British Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Music Advertising Poster Stan Getz Astrud Gilberto Bossa Nova
Located in London, GB
Original vintage music advertising poster for the Stan Getz Quartet show on 5 November 1966 featuring a comic strip design with an illustration of the Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto (b 1940) vocal and the American jazz band saxophone and drum musicians - saxophonist Stan Getz (1927-1991) ts, vibraphonist Gary Burton (b 1943) vib, bassist Steve Swallow...
Category
German Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Oceania Travel Poster New Zealand North Island Dennis Beytagh
By Dennis Beytagh
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for New Zealand featuring a colourful illustration design by Dennis Arthur Leo Beytagh (1924-2016) of the North Island of New Zealand including Welling...
Category
New Zealand Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Original Vintage USSR Travel Poster Intourist Visit Soviet Union Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage USSR travel poster in Swedish - Visit the Soviet Union / Besok Sovjet-Unionen - featuring a great Art Deco design depicting classic cars and buses driving through Red Square towards the viewer past the Gum department store and Lenin's Mausoleum / Lenin's Tomb in front of the historic wall of the Moscow Kremlin with the clock on the Spasskaya Tower rising into the sky, crowds of people outside St Basil...
Category
Swedish Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
High Society
Located in London, GB
Original candid photographic production still for the 1956 classic comedy, musical starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong The film was remake of the 1940 T...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Located in London, GB
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) - FRAMED
Photo Still (8 X 10 Inches)
Original 1969 20th Century Fox b&w publicity/ photographic production still #135/49.
This still featu...
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Bonnie and Clyde
Located in London, GB
Original American photographic production still from Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's 1967 crime romance directed by Arthur Penn.
The piece is conservation framed with UV Plexi-glas...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Almir Mavignier Poster for Egon Schiele Show at the Ulm Museum
By Max Bill
Located in New York, NY
Constructivist poster for an Egon Schiele exhibition held at the Ulm Museum from April 8-May 13, 1962. Designed by Brazilian/German visual artist, graphic designer, and pedagogue Alm...
Category
German Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Metal
Fahrenheit 451
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1966 French Science fiction film Fahrenheit 451. This film Starred Oskar Werner, Julie Christie and Cyril Cusack and directed by Francois Truffau...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Alphaville" Original Japanese Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese movie poster for Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 French New Wave film starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff.
Category
Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
'Thunderbirds Are Go' Original Vintage Australian Daybill Movie Poster, 1966
Located in Devon, GB
Printed in stunning stone lithography, this explosive Australian Daybill poster advertised the first full length feature film based on the British sci-fi Supermarionation television series 'Thunderbirds.' Created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, 'Thunderbirds' combined a form of electronic marionette puppetry, which they named "Supermarionation," with scale model special effects sequences. Set in the 2060s, 'Thunderbirds' followed on from the Anderson's earlier Supermarionation productions including 'Fireball XL5' and 'Stingray.' The series followed the exploits of International Rescue, a life-saving organisation equipped with technologically-advanced land, sea, air and space rescue craft headed by a fleet of five vehicles named the Thunderbirds and launched from the organisation's secret base of operations in the Pacific Ocean. 'Thunderbirds Are Go...
Category
Australian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
'The Beatles' Complete Set of Five Promotional Posters by Richard Avedon, 1967
Located in Devon, GB
Complete set of five promotional posters
Portraits 27 x 18¾ in. (68.5 x 47.5 cm.); Banner 14½ x 40 in. (37 x 101.5 cm.)
Printed in England by Waterlow & Sons Limited for Stern Magazine, Germany
Beatles manager Brian Epstein...
Category
German Post-Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Forward To Victory Spitfire Pilots Blitz WWII RAF
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Forward to Victory - featuring a dynamic design depicting military Royal Air Force RAF pilots in uniform running towards their Spitfire planes...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
1969 Disneyland - Peoplemover - Tomorrowland Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning exceptionally rare attraction poster from 1969 promoting the Peoplemover attraction in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Opening in 1955 in Anaheim, California, Disneyland was ope...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Union Propaganda Poster World Peace Friendship USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster promoting world Peace / Мир and international Friendship / Дружба featuring a great design depicting determined young people from around the...
Category
Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
The Big Sleep
Located in London, GB
Original US black and white photographic production still for the 1946 Film Noir The Big Sleep. this production still would have been used by the studio to advertise the film. these ...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage ENIT Skiing Poster Advertising Santo Stefano d'avesta Italy
By Mario Puppo
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Vintage poster illustrated by Mario Puppo in the fifties for advertising on skiing in the Italian mountains, the Santo Stefano D'Aveto.
Mario Puppo w...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Pin Up Lady Telephone Hat George Petty Design Art USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster featuring an illustration by the notable American pin-up artist George Brown Petty IV (1894-1975) depicting a lady in a sheer body suit holding a sketch of a ...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Bambi
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the classic Walt Disney production.
The artwork was designed by great French poster artist Alexis (dates unknown) and was unique to the French poster....
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
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
Vintage Anatomical Human Front Muscular Structure Chart, 1950s, Germany
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Vintage pull-down anatomical human chart, print of a painting for Tanck & Wegelin, Germany. The chart is part of the series: Naturalien und Lehrmittel Anatomie und Biologie, Hamburg....
Category
German Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
My Fair Lady
By Guiliano Nistri
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison's classic 1964 musical. This film was directed by George Cukor.
The beautiful artwork is by the Italian artist Guilia...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
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 Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
James Dean 'Rebel Without A Cause' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1956
Located in Devon, GB
A full-length James Dean smoulders on this exceedingly rare two-panel poster for the first Japanese release of the classic 1955 teenage drama 'Rebel Without A Cause' in April 1956. S...
Category
Japanese Post-Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Prince and the Showgirl
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Laurence Olivier’s 1957 romantic comedy starring
himself and Marilyn Monroe.
This poster is conservation linen backed.
This piece is in excellent conditio...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Can-Can" Original British Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British movie poster for the 1960 musical starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier.
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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...
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Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Bringing Up Baby
Located in London, GB
Original US silver gelatine double weight matt photograph from the 1938 Screwball Comedy Bringing Up Baby.
This film starred Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn and directed by Howard H...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Poster Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada Train Art
By Peter Ewart
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada! Stunning artwork by Peter Ewart (1918-2001) depicting a steam trai...
Category
Canadian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Messageries Maritimes Far East Shipping French
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel to Asia poster - Visitez L'Extreme-Orient Par Les Messageries Maritimes / Visit the Far East by Messageries Maritimes - featuring artwork by Bernard La...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Original Vintage Guinness Poster My Goodness Where's The Guinness Goose
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage Guinness poster - My Goodness where's the Guinness? - featuring fun artwork by the British graphic designer Alfred Ambrose Chew L...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster All Steel Bicycle Raleigh Design Bike Advertising Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for The All Steel Bicycle The Raleigh With Everlasting Guarantee featuring a great design of a silhouette of a Raleigh bike...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
North by Northwest
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Alfred Hitchcock great 1959 thriller starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.
This poster is conservation paper backed and it would be shippe...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937. This poster was designed to be used for the films re-release in 1951. This was Walt Disney's first fea...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Olivetti Lettera 22 Typewriter Alphabet Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting colourful c...
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
'TWA London' Original Vintage Travel Poster by David Klein, 1950s
By David Klein
Located in Devon, GB
During the 1950s and 1960s, American artist David Klein created dozens of alluring posters for Howard Hughes' glamorous Trans World Airlines, capturing the excitement and adventure of travel. His iconic designs, with their bright and colorful illustrations of famous landmarks, won many awards and came to define the spirit of the jet age.
Issued by Trans World Airlines circa 1954, a Queen's Guard stands sentry in front of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament on Klein's painterly poster to advertise TWA flights to London, during a period of burgeoning interest in England following the 1953...
Category
American Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Army Military Recruitment Poster Royal Scots Fusiliers
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Army military recruitment poster - Join the Royal Scots Fusiliers - featuring artwork by Tom Curr (1887-1958) depicting two men march...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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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...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
"The Wrong Man" Original British Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for Alfred Hitchcock's 1957 film.
This Hitchcock drama stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles, and is based on a true story of an innocent man charged with a ...
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English Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
High Society
Located in London, GB
Original US photographic production still for the 1956 Classic comedy, musical starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong The film was remake of the 1940 The P...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for the 1969 classic western staring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross. This film was directed by George Roy Hill. This piece is fram...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
The Big Sleep
Located in London, GB
Original 1946 US Title card for The Big Sleep.
This film was directed by Howard Hawks and starred Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall. This film was bassed on the classic novel by R...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Air France Planisphere New And Old Lucien Boucher
Located in London, GB
Original vintage planisphere travel route map poster promoting Air France - New and Old - On the Old Land with the New Paths / Nova et Vetera - Sur La Vieille Terre des Chemin Nouvea...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Lawrence of Arabia
Located in London, GB
Original US style A film poster from the first release of the film in the US in 1962.
The art work on this poster is by the famous American painter and illustrator Howard Terpning (b.1927)
David Lean's classic film starred Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Hard Day's Night
Located in London, GB
Original US production stills for The Beatles 1964 music, comedy film A Hard Day's Night. The film was directed by Richard Lester. The film was released in Czechoslovakia one year la...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster Deutsche Lufthansa Flyv-Ogsaa Om Vinteren Winter Flights
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Deutsche Lufthansa Fly Also In Winter / Flyv-Ogsaa Om Vinteren! Great artwork featuring a view from a plane window over snowy fields and sn...
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German Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original vintage Carl-Henning Pedersen at Louisiana poster 1969
Located in Brønshøj, DK
Original vintage Carl-Henning Pedersen poster.
In 1969, the renowned Louisiana Museum of Modern Art showcased a significant exhibition featuring the works of Danish artist Carl-Henni...
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Danish Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
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