Poster

'Moulin Rouge, La Goulue' was Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s first commissioned poster and it launched his poster-making career overnight.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) took great delight in making cameo appearances in the films he produced and directed.

Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction.

Robert Opie, consumer historian and collector, has been saving “evidence of the branded world” since he was 16.

Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis are not exactly household names these days but they starred in what is now regarded as one of the best horror films of the 1950s.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

London poster specialist stages two shows – one held in an embassy

The SS Normandie was both the apogee and the nadir of the Art Deco movement.

This rare rock and pop poster advertises a performance by ‘Bazooka Joe’ with ‘Support Band’ at the common room of St Martin’s Art School on November 6, 1975. Entrance was 50p.

While most dealerships look to existing auction houses to sell off excess stock, some dealers have brought the practice in house.

In the 007 collecting scene Dr No (1962) is usually the film poster buyers are most keen to say yes to.

On November 26, 1976, the Sex Pistols released their first single, Anarchy in the UK.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Considered one of the best British movies about the Second World War, the British quad-sized poster for 'The Dam Busters' (1955) was not too bad either.

Top price at the Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) poster auction on January 6 came for a design that was a work of art in itself.

Collection amassed by the popular TV magician leaves bidders spellbound as nearly all items get away

The only known poster from ‘The Day the Music Died’ became the most expensive concert poster when it sold for a premium inclusive $447,000 ($379,500) at Heritage Auctions of Dallas on November 11.