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Period: 1940s
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Nice Work Happiness Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Nice Travail et Joie / Work and Happiness H. Matisse - featuring colourful artwork by the renowned French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Pin Up Lady Telephone Hat George Petty Girls Model Nude
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 ...
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American Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Waterloo Station Southern Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel advertising poster issued by Southern Railway - Waterloo Station 1848-1948 A Centenary of Uninterrupted Service During Peace and War - featuring a detailed illustration of the busy Central London station depicting people in smart suits and fashionable dresses, shoppers and families, people in different military uniform, boy scouts and porters, a girl sitting on a suitcase and two ladies running to make their train, a couple kissing and a man pushing a bicycle, people at the news stand and buying tickets at the main line booking office, Royal Mail vans parked on the side and steam trains on the platforms, a green Southern Railway van with a penguin on the side advertising Chessington Zoo and Circus driving by in the foreground, the glass ceiling architecture and the iconic four-faced clock...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Poster 25th Anniversary Komsomol USSR WWII Soviet Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Soviet propaganda poster - Long Live the 25th Anniversary of the Leninist-Stalinist Komsomol! Dynamic artwork depicting soldiers and workers marching f...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Wizard of Oz
Located in London, GB
Original British front of house still for The Wizard of Oz.
These British front of house stills are the equivalent to Lobby cards in the US.
The film came out in 1939. This still wou...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Philips Lighting Smiling Light Bulb Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Philips light bulbs featuring a fun design by Frank Nanninga (1920-1999) depicting a cartoon lightbulb with arms and legs, a smiling face and ...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Route Poster Air France Planisphere Map Lucien Boucher
Located in London, GB
Original vintage planisphere travel route map poster promoting Air France the global air network of the French national airline carrier. Design by Lucien Boucher (1889-1971) featurin...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWI Propaganda Poster Back Them Up Tank Attack Western Desert
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster, Back Them Up! A British tank attack in the Western Desert, featuring a dynamic illustration of a tank ...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Pin Up Lady Telephone Mirror George Petty Art Design
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 transparent dress holding a sketch of ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Vintage Framed Movie Poster of “ Les Enfants Du Paradis “ Circa 1945.
Located in Seattle, WA
This framed movie poster is of a French Film from 1945. Translates “ The children of paradise “ Within Silver toned. Professionally custom framing....
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Wood
The Philadelphia Story
Located in London, GB
This is a rare original American film poster for the classic 1940 comedy starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart. This film was directed by George Cukor.
This is the...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original WW2 Poster, ‘Englishman, This Man Is Your Friend He Fights for Freedom’
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War II propaganda poster ‘This Man is your Friend-Englishman-He Fights for Freedom. Great black and white photograph of a smiling English soldier in uniform wearing a hat and holding a sub machine gun on his shoulder with the text in stylized black and white letters...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Pinocchio
Located in London, GB
Original artwork used to create the British front of house stills. Gouache on artboard.
This original artwork features the films scene where Pinocchio is under the sea.
Exceptionally rare. Original artworks rarely surface, as the majority were destroyed.
Pieces on the Classic Disney films are always highly prized. This original artwork only recently surfaced, and was previously owned by an English lady, who had been given this piece in the 1940s. Prior to this discovery no other Pinocchio artwork for posters or front of house stills had been seen.
Walt Disney's second animated feature film was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, (1937). Pinocchio, the world’s most famous wooden puppet, is originally the creation of the Italian writer and social commentator Carlo Collodi. Entitled The Adventures of Pinocchio...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paint
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Soviet Sailor Fighters Fascist Enemy WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet World War Two propaganda poster - Let's show the despicable fascist murderers how a Soviet sailor can fight / Покажем презренным фашистским убийцам, как драть...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s 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 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Washington American Airlines McKnight Kauffer USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Washington American Airlines - featuring fantastic artwork by one of the most renowned poster artists of the 20th century Edward McKnight...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Propaganda Poster British Commonwealth Of Nations Together
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - The British Commonwealth of Nations Together - featuring a dynamic military illustration depicting a group of British Empire Common...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Pan Am Flying Clipper Ships South America Map
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Pan Am travel advertising map poster - On the routes of the Flying Clipper Ships - featuring a pictorial map by Kenneth W. Thompson (1907-1996) of Latin America with images of points of interest, cities, animals and people including ancient Maya ruins and Inca ruins, the Iguassu Falls, Amazon...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
La Regle Du Jeu / The Rules of the Game
Located in London, GB
Exceptionally rare original French film poster for La Regle du Jeu / The Rules of the Game. This film starred Marcel Dalio , Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, and was directed by Jean...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Nora Inu / Stray Dog
Located in London, GB
This is an exceptionally rare very rare original Japanese film poster for Akira Kurosawa's 1949 crime film.
This is not the general release poster but one created for local theatres ...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s 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 ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paint, Paper
1940 Barbisio Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful piece from 1940 for Barbisio Hats featuring stunning artwork. This charming poster with artwork from St. Mingozzi depicts a small white dog walking up to a Barbisio hat and...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
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 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage American WWII Recruitment Poster For Your Country's Sake Today
Located in London, GB
Original vintage American World War Two recruitment poster - For your country's sake today For your own sake tomorrow Go to the nearest recruiting station of the armed service of you...
Category
American Vintage 1940s 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...
Category
French Belle Époque Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"She's Ready, Too. Buy War Bonds" Vintage WWII Bonds Poster, 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a vintage WWII War Bonds poster, printed in 1942. In the poster, a confident woman sets out with conviction to buy war bonds, her hand over her pocketbook. As the woman ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Propaganda Poster Work 8 Hours Strengthen Motherland USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front industry propaganda poster - Work 8 Hours and Strengthen the Power of Our Motherland / Работать 8 Часові Крепить Мощь Нашей Родины! Dynamic photomontage artwork by the notable Soviet political poster designer...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Fratricidio Fratricide WWII Fascist War Propaganda Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage fascist Italian World War Two poster - Fratricidio! / Fratricide - featuring an Italian soldier wearing a torn and bloodied uniform and ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
To Have and Have Not
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1944 Film Noir To Have and Have Not.
This film starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and was directed by Howard Hawks.
This piece is conservation ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Red Shoes
Located in London, GB
a rare original Australian souvenir program cover for The Red Shoes 1948. This film was directed by the famous duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressbu...
Category
Australian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Located in London, GB
Original candid photographic production still for the 1948 drama, adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
This film starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and was directed b...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Raw Deal
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for The 1948 Film Noir Raw Deal.
This film was directed by Anthony Mann and starred Dennis O'Keefe and Claire Trevor.
This poster is conservation linen backed...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Grand Canyon" Vintage Santa Fe Railroad Travel Poster by Oscar M. Bryn, 1949
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a vintage Grand Canyon travel poster for the Santa Fe Southern Railway, issued in 1949. The poster promotes railroad travel...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s 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 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Philadelphia Story
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for the classic 1940 comedy
starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart.
This piece is conservation framed with in a Tulip wood...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Letter / La Lettre
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for William Wyler's 1940 Film Noir starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by Howard E. Koch is based on the 1927 play...
Category
French Vintage 1940s 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....
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Back Them WWII Up Hudsons Coastal Command
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Back Them Up! A raid by "Hudsons" of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aelesund Norway in which eleven ships were hit - fea...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Lady From Shanghai
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production photo from 1948 film Noir The Lady from Shanghai starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles and directed by Orson Welles. The photo was taken by Robert Coburn...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Ski Sports Travel Poster This Winter Sun Valley Idaho
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sports travel poster - This Winter Sun Valley - featuring a great image of a smiling lady in a yellow and blue ski suit skiing down a snowy slope at speed wit...
Category
American Vintage 1940s 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 Bernard Lancy (1892-1964) and was unique to the French post...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Warning Propaganda Poster Careless Talk Tragedy Wartime
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two warning propaganda poster - Careless Talk Brings Tragedy In Wartime - featuring numbered and captioned illustrations of 1. a young soldier on the phone...
Category
Canadian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Torino Alps Capital Winter Sport Campagnoli Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Winter Sports in Torino Capital of the Alps / Sport Invernali Torino Capitale Delle Alpi - featuring artwork by Alberto Campagnoli (1905-1983) of a red cable car ski lift traveling up past snow covered trees with a mountain and bright sun in the background, the colourful bold title text below and slogan diagonally across the image. Issued by ENIT the Italian...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s 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 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"The U.S. Marines Want You" Vintage WWII Recruitment Poster, 1940
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster, issued in 1940. The poster depicts a no-nonsense Marine drill instructor, pointing directly at the viewer, in front of a ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Ready. Join U.S. Marines" Vintage WWII Recruitment Poster by Haddon Sundblom
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster, issued in 1942. The poster depicts a uniformed Marine, standing strong and proud at attention. The persuasive text reads ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Let 'Em Have It. Buy Extra Bonds" Vintage WWII 4th War Loan Poster, 1943
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II poster, dating to 1943. The poster reads "Let 'Em Have It" and “Buy Extra Bonds” in bold yellow and white block letters. The poster's composition features a soldier throwing a grenade on the battlefield. Black and blue smoked filled skies and barbed wire are seen behind him. The 4th War Loan Shield is illustrated prominently at center left. The poster was illustrated by Bernard Perlin...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Buy Victory Bonds WWII Soldier Sailor Navy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Buy Victory Bonds - featuring a dynamic battle scene with explosions in the background and three men in military uniform armed with guns charging forward over barbed wire, an army soldier...
Category
British Vintage 1940s 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 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Walt Disney Presents the World's Greatest Shorts
Located in London, GB
This rare original British animation poster was designed to advertise Walt Disney shorts. In England posters were not produced for every short cartoon, ...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Munition Workers Allied Countries British Factories
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Munition Workers of Allied Countries... Are hitting back at Hitler... Through British factories! Colourful design featuring the bold text flowing through four images with flags of the allies against a black background, the top two images depicting air and ground battle scenes showing a Royal Air Force RAF plane flying against a blue sky and dropping bombs on a convoy of Axis Power military trucks and the other a tank battle...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Philadelphia Story
Located in London, GB
Original colour studio promotional photograph for the classic 1940 comedy
starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart.
This piece is conservation framed with in a Tuli...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Secret Beyond the Door
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1948 Film Noir Secret Beyond the Door.
This film was directed Fritz Lang and starred Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave.
This poster is conservation li...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Heiress Poster- Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster from (1949) drama ,romance starring Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift. This film was directed by William Wyler
This poster would have been used ou...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster French Resistance Voix Du Maquis Fighters Magazine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster advertising La Voix Du Maquis / The Voice of Maquis bi-monthly magazine issued by the National Federation of Maquis featuring a bold Art Deco style illustration of a soldier wearing a beret hat with a logo on it and his mouth open in speech set against the blue, white and red colours of the French flag with the text below the image - Dit Tout Pense Jeune / Says it all Think young On sale at all depositories on the second and fourth Saturday of each month Prices 3 francs. Formed in c.1943, the Maquis French Resistance...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
The Grapes of Wrath / Les Raisins de la Coiere
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1940 masterpiece directed John Ford and starred Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell.
The striking artwork is by Bernard Lancy (1892-1964) an...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Middle East Travel Poster Lebanese Way Lebanon Mountain Air
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Middle East travel poster for Lebanon - To The Cool Mountain Air The Lebanese Way - featuring scenic artwork of a path winding through th...
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Lebanese Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Smash Japanese Aggression WWII Glosters
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - The Gloucesters, a famous regiment from Great Britain, raided Letpadan and drove the Japanese from the town, inflicting heavy casua...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
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