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.
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 Ski Winter Sport Seasons Set Switzerland Eidenbenz Midcentury. Set of four original vintage posters featuring Switzerland in every season: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Each poster depicts a picturesque seasonal scene featuring lakes, mountains, trees, flowers, boats, butterflies and birds, snow, sunshine and people enjoying the great outdoors, from sailing to skiing, with a large Swiss flag waving down from the top corner. Artwork by Hermann Eidenbenz (1902-1993). Printed by the Swiss Tourist Board. Horizontal. Excellent condition. Country of issue: Switzerland, designer: Eidenbenz, size (cm): 50x64, year of printing: 1948.
War Poster Red Cross Roll Call Service Of All Mankind. Original antique World War One medical recruitment poster - Annual roll call At the Service of All Mankind - featuring a volunteer nurse with her uniform flowing behind her like angel wings, standing above a map of America with a Red Cross in the centre, a person riding a horse on one side and a wounded soldier on crutches with a lady and child on the other side, the map shape above a disaster scene showing flooding with a damaged bridge and homes in ruins below. The American Red Cross ARC was formed in 1881 as non-profit humanitarian organization founded by the American Civil War nurse Clara Barton (Clarissa Harlowe Barton; 1821-1912). Printed by Edwards and Deutsch Litho and Co Chicago. Good condition, restored tears, small restored paper loss in margin, staining, foxing, backed on linen. Country of issue: USA, designer: Lawrence Wilbur, size (cm): 72x53, year of printing: 1917.
Propaganda Poster Apollo Soyuz First International Space Mission 1975. Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster celebrating the historic Apollo Soyuz Mission in July 1975 - featuring a great design depicting the docking of the two spacecraft within a red and blue circle with the white text on the curves above a swirling blue shaded background, the rest of the text below. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project marked the end of the Space Race and the first joint US-Soviet space flight that saw the docking of an American Apollo Command Service Module with the Soviet Soyuz 19 from 17-19 July crewed by five USSR cosmonauts / American astronauts launching on 15 July and landing on 21 July (Soyuz) and 24 July (Apollo) - Thomas Patten Stafford, Vance DeVoe Brand, Donald Kent Deke Slayton, Alexey Leonov and Valeri Kubasov. Good condition, restored tears, restored creasing, restored folds, restored paper losses, backed on linen. Country of issue: Russia, designer: A. Sokolov, size (cm): 104x80, year of printing: 1975.
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 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.
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.
Travel Poster London Underground Shopping Country Town Dora Batty. Original vintage London Transport poster - By Underground for Shopping From Country to the Heart of Town 30 Minutes - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Dora Margaret Batty (1891-1966) featuring a lady wearing a winter gloves, hat and scarf, holding wrapped packages and an umbrella in front of a large department store building with a smaller image below depicting a London Underground train on a railway track leading through tunnels below the building towards a country house in front of trees behind a fence, the bold text in stylised lettering above and below. Printed by Sanders Phillips and Co Ltd and The Baynard Press, Chryssell Road. Acceptable condition, discolouration and paper browning, restored tears and small paper loss on edges, restored creasing, backed on linen. Country of issue: UK, designer: Dora Batty, size (cm): 102x64, year of printing: 1925.
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.