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Common Land Applications for Registration (1969)
Lithograph 37 x 25 cm Prepared by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Central Office of Information. Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Multi Machine Plates Ltd. "COMMON LAND: APPLICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION of Land, Rights and Ownership under the Commons Registration Act 1965 MUST BE IN BY 2ND JANUARY 1970. DO NOT WAIT - APPLY NOW - land and rights not registered may be lost." The Commons Registration Act 1965 (c. 64) is an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom enacted in 1965 that concerns the registration of rights to common land, town greens, and village greens in England and Wales. Condition: generally good; a few old creases and two small tape stains. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Back Them Up! - Buy Savings Certificates
Original vintage poster 39 x 25 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee, London and the Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Staford & Co. Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham. This WW2 poster encourages us to support the Allied war effort and 'Back Them Up' by buying War Savings Certificates (government-issued debt securities which helped to finance the war). 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 posters. -
Austria Österreich - St Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee
Original vintage poster 61 x 43 cm St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut is an Austrian market town east of Salzburg, named after Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg. This sunny poster encourages us to visit - and perhaps to lunch by Lake Wolfgangsee. Condition: generally very good; a few very small edge losses to right hand. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
Air France Vacances - Allemagne
Original vintage poster 100 x 66 cm This Air France poster encourages French tourists to travel to Germany. Pictured is the Römer in Frankfurt, a medieval building which has served as the town's city hall for over six hundred years. Condition: generally very good; a few little edge creases top right. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
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. -
John Finnie (born 1935)
Waterways (1965)
Original vintage poster 102 x 63 cm Overprinted 'This is a reproduction of a poster designed for London Transport'. This was overprinted for a period on copies of London Transport posters (produced on the normal production line) that were sold in what is now the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Finnie's poster promotes travel on London's waterways, and indicates that said waterways are in easy reach of London Underground stations (here, Warwick Road). John Finnie was an illustrator and designer who trained at Leicester College of Art. He was elected a Member of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers in 1958, and then worked as a freelance artist, designing posters for the British Ship Building Conference, The Post Office, Shell, London Transport, and many other notable companies. From 1976 he began producing glass engraving designs. 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 London Transport posters. -
Pierre Tairraz (1933 - 2000)
Chamonix - Mont Blanc - France
Original vintage poster 100 x 60 cm A view of the Téléphérique de la vallée Blanche cable car over Mont Blanc entices us to book a skiing trip to Chamonix. Pierre Tairraz was the fourth in line of the Tairraz family of mountain photographers, following in the footsteps of his father George, his father George, and his father Joseph. Between 1857 and 2000, four photographers, from father to son, invent and transmit the art of mountain photography. Their family name is Tairraz. Pierre was an exceptional climber and worked for 40 years photographing mountains, particularly the French Alps. Condition: generally very good; a few little edge tears and a slight marginal loss to top (all of which will disappear under a mount when framed). If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage skiing posters. -
David Klein (1918 - 2005)
Spain - Fly TWA
Original vintage poster 102 x 63 cm Klein's poster for Trans World Airlines (TWA) advertises flights to Spain. His design features two matadors in rich traditional address, in a stadium where a bullfight is presumably about to take place; a TWA plane flies overhead. David Klein was an American artist notable for his posters. He designed posters for the US Army, many and various Broadway productions, Trans World Airlines, and many more commercial clients. In the late 1950s and early 1960s his travel posters became iconic images of the era of commercial aeroplane travel. One of his posters was added to the MoMa's collection in 1957. Condition: 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. -
Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)
Come Out to Live (1936)
Original vintage poster 101 x 63 cm A copy of this poster is held by the London Transport Museum. Published by the Baynard Press. Nash's poster encourages us to buy a season ticket in order to travel more cheaply by train. A modernist suburb is juxtaposed with a monochrome photograph of the Royal Exchange in the heart of the City of London, suggesting that by travelling in from suburbia we can "come out to live". Paul Nash was a modernist, surrealist British artist. He is known for his modernist landscapes and work as a war artist. He studied at the Slate School of Art and soon focused his work on landscapes, especially those containing ruins; he went on to produce some of the most recognisable artworks of the First World War, mostly depicting war-torn landscapes. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Royal Ascot (1935)
Original vintage poster 101 x 63 cm A text poster advertising Southern Railway as a means of travelling to and from Royal Ascot. Graham Sutherland OM was an English artist known for his romantic, abstract landscapes and portraits of public figures, including Churchill and the Queen Mother. Sutherland spent the 1920s mostly making landscape prints, but, following the collapse of the print market in the early 1930s branched out into watercolours. He also undertook a few commercial commissions for posters, working for London Transport, Shell and others. He served as an official war artist in the Second World War, painting industrial scenes on the British home front. After the war he worked in oils and explored figurative painting. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage London Transport posters. -
Hans Schilter (1918 - 1988)
Zentralschweiz (1951)
Original vintage poster 102 x 64 cm This marvellous poster encourages travel to Central Switzerland - a land of gently snow-capped mountains and wide blue lakes. Hans Schilter was a Swiss artist known for his poster designs. Condition: generally very good; a few repaired short edge tears and small repaired missing area approx 2cm x 1 cm top left corner. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
Kleinwalsertal Allgauer Alpen
Original vintage poster 74 x 50 cm This bright 1970s poster encourages us to tour to Austria and ride the cable car up to the Kanzelwand (a mountain on the border between Vorarlberg, Austria and Bavaria, Germany). Here, a charming family of hikers gaze up at the cable car as it crosses overhead. Condition: generally very good; one or two little creases to bottom. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
'Samivel' Paul Gayet-Tancrède (1907 - 1992)
Samuel: poète du verbe et de l'image (1992)
Original vintage poster 95 x 65 cm This poster advertises an exhibition of Samuel's work, entitled 'Samuel: poet of word and image' and held in Grenoble in 1992, the year of the artist's death. It features Samuel's 1987 Au Vrai Sommet ('To the True Summit') as its image; the lone figure gazing out into the mountainous blue, gaunt and clad only in a loincloth, seems to represent Samivel's outstanding but isolated work. Samivel was a writer, an artist, a photographer, an explorer and more. In 1948 he accompanied Paul Émile Victor on the first French Greenland expedition, making three documentary films in the process. His friends included Théodore Monod and Gilbert André - the latter the mayor of Bonneval-sur-Arc and one of the founders of the Vanoise National Park - and with them and others he spent his whole life aiming for the protection of the imperilled countryside. The graphic artist side of him had a life-long fascination with high mountains, and his illustrated books and series of posters of the French Alps have long been popular. Condition: generally very good; faint mark to left hand side level with person; small edge crease to left. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of St John’s College, Cambridge. -
Gordon Davey (1912 - 1991)
Isle of Man
Original vintage poster 102 x 64 cm Condition: fair. Backed to linen. Areas of time staining as visible in photographs. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Poulain
Messageries Maritimes - Union Française
Original vintage poster 98 x 63 cm Poulain's poster advertising the Messageries Maritimes (a French merchant shipping company) features a unicorn with a mane in the colours of the French flag. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen; evidence of a few short old edge tears now largely invisible. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Barbara Jones (1912 - 1978)
See Britain from Her Roads
Original vintage poster 77 x 50 cm Signed lower left in the plate. Issued by the Tilling Group of Omnibus Companies. Jones' poster, with its two happy swans in the foreground, encourages us to travel Britain via coach (the coach tour was becoming ever more popular in 1950s Britain). The text reads: "You can travel anywhere in Britain by coach and bus ... ask for details of express coach services and touring holidays at any travel agent or Victoria Coach Station S.W.1." Barbara Jones was an English artist and writer. She studied at Croydon High School and then the Royal College of Art (where her contemporaries included John Piper, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious and Edward Ardizzone), beginning in the Department of Engraving but transferring to the Department of Mural Decoration in her second year. She illustrated the pamphlet 'Bombed Churches as War Memorials' in 1945. Jones worked on several notable murals after the war, including for the Britain Can Make It exhibition in 1946, and the Enterprise Scotland exhibition in 1947. She also did commercial work for many companies, including P&O Ferries. In 1951 Jones co-curated Black Eyes and Lemonade, an exhibition of craft, folk, and popular objects at the Whitechapel Gallery. She was a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and a member of the Society of Authors. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen; pin holes to corners. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Elizabeth Scott
See Glasgow by Train
Original vintage poster 102 x 127 cm Signed lower right in the plate. Printed in Scotland for the Corporation of Glasgow. Based on an Ordnance Survey map, Scott's poster uses added illustrated details to encourage us to explore the riches of Glasgow via rail. The Glasgow City and District Railway was electrified in 1960 and use of the line was encouraged by the city. Condition: generally very good. Backed to linen. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Nathan - Jacques Nathan-Garamond (1910 - 2001)
Go by Train to Brittany (1956)
Original vintage poster 101 x 62 cm Printed in France for and by the French Railways. This charming and cheering poster, featuring a blue sailing boat on a sandy beach with brightly-coloured houses behind, encourages us to explore France by train and make a sojourn to Brittany. Jacques Nathan Garamond (born Jacques Nathan) was a French graphic designer. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and became the Director of Contemporary Architecture there. He then began his career as a graphic designer, specialising in posters and commercial illustrations. He was a founding member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, a society for graphic artists and designers. Condition: generally very good; stains to bottom corners and six enlarged pin holdes to corners and middles of sides. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage travel posters. -
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. -
Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890 - 1954)
Summertime - Pleasures by Underground (1925)
Original vintage poster 101 x 63 cm Signed and dated in plate. Issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1925. This is one of a series of posters designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer bearing the legend 'Summertime - Pleasures by Underground'. A doleful Pierrot figure (a lovestruck clown character from commedia dell'arte) plays a lute before a castle with streaming pennants; a country caravan, daffodils, leafy trees and a bright yellow sun complete the scene. Other posters from the series include similar traditional folk characters, such as a Jack-in-the-green. Edward McKnight Kauffer was an American artist and graphic designer who lived for much of his life in the United Kingdom. He is mainly known for his work in poster design, but was also active as a painter, book illustrator and theatre designer. He studied art at the California School of Design from 1910 to 1912 and then at the Académie Moderne in Paris until 1914 (via a six month stint at the Art Institute of Chicago). He moved to London upon the start of the First World War and produced 140 poster for London Underground and London Transport. He created posters for Shell Oil, the Great Western Railway and other commercial clients, and also illustrated books and book covers. Later he also became interested in textiles, interior design, and theatrical design. He returned to New York City in 1940 and began designing posters for American Airlines (his primary client until his death) in 1947 .In 1952 he designed the book jacket for Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man - arguably Kauffer's most famous work. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage London Transport posters. -
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. -
Auxiliary Territorial Service (now the Women's Royal Army Corps) 1939 - 1945 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. -
Infantryman 1939 - 1945 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. -
Royal Field Artillery Driver 1914 - 1918 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. -
Royal Horse Artillery Drivers 1900 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. -
Army Hospital Corps Surgeon - 1st Class 1866 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. -
9th Bengal Infantry (Gurkha) Private 1890 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. -
The Ninth (Queen's Royal Lancers) Officer 1899 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. -
Royal Army Service Corps (now Royal Logistics Corps) 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. -
Tank Corps (now Royal) Captain (Fighting Order) 1917 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. -
Royal Flying Corps (RAF) Officer 1914 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.