Travel Poster California America Wine Land Napa Valley Sonoma. Original vintage drink advertising travel poster for California Wine Land of America featuring a map with the areas and districts marked on banners and colourful illustrations including vineyards and winemakers, wine barrels and bottles, notable locations and landmarks, people playing music and riding horses, snow topped mountains, trees, a movie film camera, a sailing boat and ships at sea with a crab, fish and seagulls, the title above in bold stylised lettering with a decorative sun compass point above text on the side below and more on a wine press reading - California's vineyard areas, shown in green, stretch for 700 miles from snowy Mount Shasta almost to Mexico, covering from 450,000 acres. In these rich winelands almost every known variety of wine grape finds its ideal habitat, blessed by a sunny climate that permits perfect ripening - hence the saying, Every year is a vintage year in California. There are dry dinner wines from north coastal regions, and sweeter appetizer and dessert wines from warm valleys inland and to the south. However, fine wines of all types, including Champagnes and other sparkling wines, are grown in each of the nine main wine districts shown. / Since 1769, when Father Junipero Serra and the Franciscan padres first planted wine grapes of Mission San Diego California has been noted as a land especially favored for wine growing. The next century saw vineyards spread rapidly, with European winemakers, attracted by the Gold Rush, contributing their age-old art and traditions. Great sailing ships soon carried the pleasure and fame of California wines around Cape Horn to the far ports of the north. Today the Golden State produces over 80 percent of all wines consumed in America, and the wines of California are honored by connoisseurs throughout the world. Artwork by the Mexican painter Amado Gonzalez (1913-2007). Issued by the Wine Advisory Board, San Francisco. Very good condition, creasing. Country of issue: USA, designer: Amado Gonzalez, size (cm): 102x73, year of printing: 1960s.
Travel Poster World Clock Copenhagen Jens Olsen Midcentury Modern. Original vintage travel poster featuring a great illustration by the Danish artist Aage Rasmussen (1889-1983) depicting the astronomical world clock and perpetual calendar designed by the Danish locksmith, clockmaker and astromechanic Jens Olsen (1872-1945), displayed in the Copenhagen City Hall Denmark - Jens Olsens Verdensur Kobenhavns Radhus - depicting a crescent moon above the earth surrounded by Roman numerals of a clock face with numbers around a shining sun behind the globe and the city hall building below, a gold part of the middle section above the title text against the blue background. Printed by Andreasen Lachmann, Copenhagen Denmark. Very good condition, repaired tear on the bottom edge. Country of issue: Denmark, designer: Aage Rasmussen, size (cm): 100x62, year of printing: 1957.
Travel Poster GWR Railway Cornwall Train Cornish Riviera Devon GWR. Original vintage West Country holiday travel poster for GWR Great Western Railway featuring the King Class 4-6-0 locomotive No 6009 King Charles II Cornish Riviera Express steam train emerging from the Shell Cove tunnel in Devon on tracks running by the sea wall with a sandy beach below the rocky cliffs leading around the coast to trees and the seaside resort town of Dawlish on the hills in the distance. Artwork by Murray Secretan (1888-1945). Horizontal. Good condition, several restored tears on edges, restored tears through image, restored pinholes, staining, foxing, creasing, backed on linen. Country of issue: UK, designer: M Secretan, size (cm): 75x120, year of printing: 1930s.
Travel Poster London Underground Kew Gardens Pascale Petit. Original vintage London Underground poster - Gardens of earthly delight by Tube The new Palm House Kew Nearest station: Kew Gardens - featuring colourful artwork depicting a globe of the world in the centre of a flower surrounded by petals against a green leaf background with an outline of the Palm House in white below. The Force that Through the Green Fuse... by Pascale Petit a new work of art commissioned by London Underground. Art on the Underground. Excellent condition. Part of a collection; please visit www.antikbar.co.uk/london_underground_art_posters/ for more information. Country of issue: UK, designer: Pascale Petit, size (cm): 76x51, year of printing: 1990.
Propaganda Poster 12 April Cosmonaut Space Day USSR. Original vintage Soviet space propaganda poster for the annual Cosmonauts Day celebration of the first man in space (on 12 April 1961), the pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; 1934-1968), featuring a colourful illustration of a smiling cosmonaut / astronaut in shades of red wearing a spacesuit in front of stars and planets in shades of blue and purple, the title text on a red flag above - 12 ?????? ???? ????????????. Cosmonautics Day has been celebrated annually in the Soviet Union and Russia since 1962 and internationally since 2011 as the International Day of Human Space Flight. Excellent condition. Country of issue: Russia, designer: V. Feklyaev, size (cm): 55x43, year of printing: 1984.
Travel Poster Scotland Bagpiper SAS Otto Nielsen. Original vintage travel advertising poster by Otto Nielsen (1916-2000): Scotland by SAS / Scandinavian Airlines System. Colourful painterly image featuring a man dressed in a traditional Scottish kilt and clothing, playing music on his bagpipes with a plane flying by a castle on the top of a hill in the background. Good condition, restored pinholes and minor loss on bottom right corner, backed on linen. Country of issue: Denmark, designer: Otto Nielsen, size (cm): 101x61.5, year of printing: 1950s.
Travel Poster Chaudesaigues Carlsbad Thermal Spa France Waters . Original antique health travel poster for The French Carlsbad Thermal Waters of Chaudesaigues (Cantal) / Le Carlsbad Francais Eaux Thermales de Chaudesaigues (Cantal). Great artwork showing people around a bonfire smiling and throwing their crutches onto the flames with the smoke rising in front of a town in the scenic countryside leading to mountains on the horizon, the caption below reading - At the End of the Season healed Bathers burn their Crutches. The two smaller illustrations on the sides depict views of the trees and rocks at the Le Remontalou stream and the Viaduc de Garabit viaduct bridge over the river in the valley, the title text in bold stylised lettering above and information below - The waters of Chaudesaigues are a sovereign remedy against rheumatic affections, bronchitis, scrofula, dislocations, fractures, war wounds and especially against organic diseases of the heart. During the Season five doctors reside in Chaudesaigues. The hotel of the establishment has been completely restored. Price of board including full treatment 1st Class: 8 Francs per day 2nd Class: 5Fr.50 per day Direct carriage from Paris to Saint-Flour leaving Paris PLM station Establishment in Chaudesaigues (Cantal) Telegraphic Office. The spa town of Chaudes-Aigues is located in the Massif Central mountain area of the Cantal department in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of France; the natural hot spring water has been used since Roman times. Opened in 1885 the arched Garabit Viaduct railway bridge was built by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin over the Truyere River. Printed by Chaix (Ateliers Cheret), Paris. Large size. Fair condition, large restored paper losses, large restored tears, staining, ink stamp on the top right corner, misaligned printing, backed on linen. Country of issue: France, designer: L. Lefevre, size (cm): 125x88, year of printing: 1891.
Travel Poster London Underground Parliament French President Eckersley. Original vintage travel poster issued by London Transport featuring a great mid-century illustration by the notable artist Tom Eckersley (1914-1997) depicting a silhouette in shades of red and black of a state trumpeter musician in uniform sounding the royal salute and holding a trumpet with a blue flag on it decorated with the London Transport roundel logo in white, the bold title text in red above - State Opening of Parliament March 6th - and rest of the text in black and blue lettering on the side and below reading - Nearest stations Westminster St. James's Park Victoria Trafalgar Square Strand Charing Cross Green Park and see posters at all stations March 7th to 10th Visit of French President. Parliament was opened by King George VI (1895-1952) on 6 March 1950; following this annual ceremony the politician and then French President Vincent Jules Auriol (1884-1996; President of France 1947-1954) made a three day state visit to the UK. Printed by the Baynard Press. Horizontal. Good condition, light folds and creasing. Country of issue: UK, designer: Tom Eckersley, size (cm): 26x31, year of printing: 1950.
Sport Poster Radio Gymnastics Exercise China Communist Children. Original vintage Chinese sport health propaganda poster - Let's Do Radio Exercises - featuring an illustration depicting children exercising in the sunshine showing the young girls and boys lifting up their arms, the bold blue lettering below and pinyin text on the side. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing, tears, staining. Country of issue: China, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 77x53, year of printing: 1979.
Sport Poster Horse Racing Jockeys. Original vintage sport poster featuring a close finish in a horse race depicting two jockeys racing their horses to the finish line, the winning jockey in yellow riding a light brown horse in the foreground and the other wearing black and white stripes coming in a tight second place. Importe d'Autriche / imported from Austria. Stamps on the left side from 1937. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing, pinholes, staining at margins, minor paper loss, revenue stamps. Country of issue: Austria, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 49x63, year of printing: 1937.