Poster

The original Skegness Is So Bracing showing the ‘Jolly Fisherman’ dancing along a beach has become one of the most famous railway posters in the world.

Roger Vadim’s cult classic film 'Barbarella' starring Jane Fonda was released in 1968.

The 1968 Mexico Summer Olympics were the first Games to be staged in Latin America.

Roman Cieślewicz (1930-96) and Jan Lenica (1928-2001) were both founders of the Polish School of Posters, the influential and creative artistic movement that sprang up under strict Soviet rule.

A preserved and framed collection with a great provenance dispersed at auction showed the wider strength of a market often dominated by the familiar stars

Extensive collection on tennis theme inlcudes early Wimbledon designs and Broders view of Monte Carlo

Original printings of two of the most familiar automotive posters sold for £15,000 each at Lyon & Turnbull (26% buyer’s premium).

Designs promoting exhibitions can be a great way to collect on a tight budget

'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.