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Suisse Chutes du Rhin
Original lithographic poster (1925) 40x25" If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good, a little edge wear. -
Sun Valley
Original lithographic poster c. 1965 76x51cm Published by LooArt Press, Colorado The resort was the first destination winter resort in the US and was developed by W A Harriman, the chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad to increase passenger numbers. The Austrian Count Schaffgotsch was instructed to find a suitable site and Sun Valley was born. Sun Valley was the site of the world's first chairlifts as single-seat chairs were installed in 1936 for the opening. The poster is believed to depict Sigfried 'Sigi' Engl, an Austrian who became director of Sun Valley Ski School in 1952 and made it famous for his innovative instructional methods. A few light creases and small spot towards top right. -
Keep on the Crest of the Wave
Original vintage poster 76 x 51 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee, London. Printed for HM Stationery Office by Fosh & Cross Ltd. An original vintage WW2 poster encouraging Britons to save via the National Savings scheme - like the cheery and composed surfer, we must keep saving to stay on the crest of the wave. Condition: generally very good; slight wear to right-hand margin. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters. -
Anonymous Switzerland (Valais, Church of Rarogne) Photo:Giegel/SNTO Photolithographic poster 102x64cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Hugo Wetli (1916 - 1972)
Switzerland - Afoot in the Swiss Jura
Original vintage poster 100 x 64 cm Hugo Wetli trained as a technical draughtsman and then became apprenticed to a private graphic studio. He worked in Geneva and Berne as a painter and draughtsman, also producing book illustrations and travel poster designs. In 1947 he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and then ran his own graphic design studio. Condition: generally very good; old tape stain under 'Paseo' approx 2 cm sq and extending almost invisibly into image; a few pin holes to corners; a little soft creasing. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
Switzerland of Tomorrow Welcomes You Today (1964)
Lithographic poster 152.4cm x 63.5 cm 1964 Original "Switzerland of Tomorrow" poster from the 1964 Swiss National Exhibition. As well as a brilliantly-designed futuristic poster printed in rich colours, it is a real piece of Swiss (and European) history. The poster is the English-language edition of a tourism-encouraging poster produced in several languages to welcome international visitors to an exhibition of Swiss innovation. Switzerland holds such an event four times per century, and the exhibitions often act as a portrait of contemporary culture, design, and politics. The 1964 National Exhibition in Lausanne offered a rather different representation of Switzerland from previous exhibitions. This was partly the result of its being held during one of the tensest periods of the Cold War; the attitudes of the Swiss were changing as the twentieth century progressed, as was the case for most Europeans, and the shadow of war had encouraged many citizens, businesses, and public bodies to reexamine their values. At "Expo 64", the nickname for that year's exhibition, the 'Gulliver Project' was introduced. The exhibition organisers made use of the character Gulliver (from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' to assess visitors' attitudes to daily life. A small questionnaire written by "Gulliver" was given to visitors, asking them questions about their societal attitudes, domestic lives, and work ethics, such as "Can you be a good Swiss and get up at 9am?". The theatre director Charles Apothéloz suggested having Gulliver ask these questions so as to make the questionnaire seem less serious, and to encourage people to answer truthfully. The questionnaire answers were compiled and analysed, but never published, as had been Apothéloz's initial intention. Charles Ascher discusses this at length in his 1965 article 'Gulliver in the Land of the Swiss'. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good, pinholes to corners with some soft creases along bottom inch (would be hidden by mount). -
Taos New Mexico USA Vintage Ski Poster 1974 Victor Frohlich and Tom Carrera
67 x 53 cm Poster Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. This features Victor Frohlich in the foreground, who had been at Taos Ski Valley since the start, with Tom Carrera in behind him. This is on the Snakedance fun in 1974. Taos Ski Valley was founded in 1955 by Ernie and Rhonda Blake who lived in an eleven foot camper van prior to the construction of the Hondo Lodge - now the Inn at Snakedance (where they lived without power until 1963!) In 1956 Ernie - together with sixteen men from Taos Puelbo and a mule named Lightning - installed the first lift, the Bridger-Boseman J-Bar, serving the current Snakedance run which at the time was the mountain's only run. Condition: From the printer's surplus stock, in generally excellent condition. -
Anon.
Tate Gallery Routemaster
Slipboard Poster c.1970 Screenprint poster 64x9cm In a black hand-finished frame. Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT busses. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Walter Ernest Spradbery (1889 - 1969)
Temple Church and Library after Bombardment (1944)
Lithograph 66 x 57 cm Walter Spradbery's poster for the London Underground depicting a bombed Temple Church; a rainbow strikes hopefully out of the church's remains, and the sun shines on the golden stone of the building. The full poster bears the legend 'The Proud City' above Spradbery's design, and, beneath it, a quote from Charles Lamb: 'So may the winged horse, your ancient badge and cognisance, still flourish!'. This is a fantastic piece of British and London history, as well as a fantastically designed poster by a notable 20th century artist. The London Transport Museum has a copy of the poster, reference 1983/4/5751. 'The Proud City' was a series of six posters, all designed by Spradbery. They were commissioned by London Transport in 1944 as a defiant celebration of London's surviving the Blitz, and each poster also included a literary quotation. Walter Ernest Spradbery was a designer, painter, and poet who lived through the First and Second World Wars. He produced posters for LNER, Southern Railways, and London Transport, and was noted for his fascination with architecture and landscape. He studied, and later taught, at the Walthamstow School of Art. He was a pacifist and campaigned for nuclear disarmament, serving in the Medical Corps during the First World War and painting scenes of warfare for its duration, as well as during the Second World War. His anti-war stance and the horrors he had witnessed as a medic fed into his post-war poster design, especially 'The Proud City' poster series. Condition: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Anonymous
Man of the World: in a modern force the territorial army for adventure plus technical training
Lithographic poster c. 1960 75.5x51cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
The French Alps - To See France, Go by Train (1966)
Original vintage poster 100 x 66 cm This French Railways poster encourages tourism to the French Alps, where the railway views are (and always have been) particularly charming. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
Ronald T Horley (active 1930s - 1940s)
The Gateway to Cornwall
Charcoal heightened with white 76 x 53 cm Signed and inscribed lower right 'Architect's Office, 83 Marlborough Place NW8 Marylebone'. The Great Western Railway commissioned a series of posters promoting train travel around the UK. This charcoal drawing of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash is the artist's original design for a poster encouraging rail travel to Devon and Cornwall. The bridge is known fondly as the 'Gateway to Cornwall'. The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Surveying started in 1848 and construction commenced in 1854. The first main span was positioned in 1857 and the completed bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859. Condition: generally very good; a few isolated spots to bottom left corner. Click here for other original vintage travel posters and designs. -
The Parachute Regiment Parachutist 1954 uniform
Lithograph 50 x 31 cm Produced for the Institute of Army Education. Printed for HM Stationery Office by I A Limited, Southall 51. These posters were produced by the Institute of Army Education, likely for display in barracks. Created in the 1950s, they illustrate the 'vintage' uniforms worn by the Corps during the First World War. Condition: punched holes to corners as issued; otherwise generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage Institute of Army Education uniform posters. -
Louis Masquelier (1898-1945)
The Telephone
L. Masquelier/ Lorraine Sqdrn. (2nd TAF Security Poster No.4) Lithographic Poster 55x34.5cm Issued by the 2nd Tactical Airforce ('TAF'). This was a combination of both fighter and bomber units formed for the purposes of supporting the army in the 1944 invasion of Europe. The artist was a Sergent-chef (sergeant) in No 342 (Lorraine) Squadron RAF, a Free French Squadron transferred back to the Armée de l'Air in December 1945. An air gunner - and relatively old at 41 at the beginning of the war - he flew on many operations, also serving as cine-cameraman thanks to his artistic skills. He died on 28 May 1945, after the end of the war. Here a Frenchman has depicted that most English of items, Giles Gilbert Scott's K2 telephone box warning members of the 2nd TAF to be careful when using the telephone. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
R C Meaux
Tignes - Ski Artistique (1990)
Original vintage poster 80 x 53 cm An original vintage poster printed in colour in 1990 by L’Avenir Graphic. The poster was designed to promote the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville. A similar design was also used for a limited edition French postage stamp in 1992. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage ski posters. -
To and From Geffrye Museum Routemaster Bus Slipboard Poster c1970
Screenprint poster 64x19cm Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT busses. Geffrye Museum is the museum of the home. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
To and From White City Routemaster Bus Slipboard Poster c1970
Screenprint poster 64x19cm Printed for London Transport for use on Routemaster or RT busses. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Raymond Myerscough Walker (1908 - 1984)
To Build for Prosperity - Save Now
Original vintage poster 74 x 49 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee London, the Scottish Savings Committee Edinburgh, and the Ulster Savings Committee Belfast. Printed For HM Stationery Office By Thomas Forman and Sons Ltd, Nottingham. This posters makes use of Myerscough Walker's original painting of a church bombed in the Blitz, with new buildings being constructed behind. Even in the face of war and destruction, Britain builds itself up to prosper - and, by saving, so can we. Myerscough Walker was an architectural draughtsman. He trained at Leeds School of Art and went on to the Architectural Association in London. In 1931 he won the Tite prize and was celebrated in his career for his skill as a draughtsman – as well as architect, writer, artist, sculptor and stage designer. He worked with Berhold Lubetkin, the significant modernist architect, for several years. Condition: generally very good; the odd gentle crease. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Anonymous Tours and Excursions
Original Coach Poster 75x50cm Cool and crazy mid-century lettering. Poster with area for completion with details of a coach tour. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent.
