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Original Shell lorry bill posters designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Click on an image for more details. Higher resolution images of all our posters are available on request, or you can view in person at our gallery: 40 Cross Street, Islington, London, N1 2BA

Original Shell poster: Ask for BP not just Ethyl, by Edward McKnight Kauffer 1933. Striking typographical design with asymmetrical lettering

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Ask for BP Not Just Ethyl 1933

£850.00

Original antique poster: BP Ethyl Controls Horse-Power, Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1933. photomontage a night-time photograph of the Horse Tamers in the Place de la Concorde. dramatic asymmetrical lettering

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

BP Ethyl Controls Horse-power 1933

£3,000.00

Original poster: You Can Be Sure of Shell, Explorer’s Prefer Shell, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1934. Modernist-inspired style to represent an open map book or travel journal superimposed with a blue globe against an abstract background

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Explorers Prefer Shell 1935

£3,500.00

<em>Lubrication By Shell – Imperial Airways Flying Boat 'Canopus'</em>, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1937. An astonishingly rare and graphically outstanding poster, depicting a photograph of Imperial Airways <em>Canopus</em> within a graphic frame which includes the ‘robotic’ man advertising symbol designed by Kauffer for Shel

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Lubrication By Shell – Imperial Airways Flying Boat 'Canopus' 1937

£6,000.00

Original poster: Lubrication by Shell. Miles-Whitney Straight, by Edward McKnight Kauffer 1937. Features a Miles-Whitney Straight monoplane

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Lubrication by Shell. Miles-Whitney Straight 1937

£6,000.00

Original Shell poster: Merchants Prefer Shell, Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1933. Modernist design depicts a quayside crane lifting a crate labelled F.O.B. London

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Merchants Prefer Shell 1933

£1,200.00

Original Shell poster: New Shell Lubricating Oils, by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1937. Undulating ribbon motif connects the message with the product. Modernist design

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

New Shell Lubricating Oils 1937

£1,750.00

Original poster: The River Yeo Near Barnstaple, Wherever You Go You Can Be Sure of Shell by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1932. Nocturnal view of bridge crossing over the River Yeo in Devon. ‘neo-Romantic’ & Modernist

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

River Yeo near Barnstaple. Wherever you go, you can be sure of Shell 1932

£2,500.00

Poster, Scientists Prefer Shell, designed by Eric Lombers and Tom Eckersley, 1936. 2 chemical vessels on a chemical bench juxtaposed against a night sky with stars, a vaporous cloud and a planet. Modernist

Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers,

Scientists Prefer Shell 1936

£950.00

Original poster Shell for Go, Go for Shell, Edward McKnight Kauffer 1938. Modernist typographic design.

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Shell for Go, Go for Shell 1938

£850.00

Original travel poster: Shell Is Always First, by Edward McKnight Kauffer 1935. Typographic design in bold font & colours

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Shell Is Always First 1935

£850.00

Original Shell Lubricating Oil poster by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1936, with reference to Austin Morris, Riley, Singer, Triumph, Vauxhall and Wolseley cars

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Shell Lubricating Oil. Official for Winter 1936

£900.00

Original Shell Lubricating Oil poster by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1936, with reference to Hillman Humber, Rolls-Royce and Standard S.S. cars

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Shell Lubricating Oil. Official for Winter 1936

£900.00

Original, antique, poster: Summer Shell from May to October, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1939. The photomontage design features a photograph of a summer hat superimposed with a graphic representation of a butterfly against a grassy background.

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Summer Shell, May to October 1939

£500.00

Original Shell poster: The Quick Starting Pair, by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1931. Image of two fleas under a magnifying glass

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

The Quick Starting Pair. Shell oil and petrol 1931

£950.00

Original Shell poster: Dinton Castle, Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1936. Modernist-inspired design features a framed representation of Dinton Castle near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

To Visit Britain's Landmarks, You Can Be Sure Of Shell. Dinton Castle. 1936

£1,200.00

Original poster: TVO. Tractor Vaporizing Oil for Maximum Draw-bar Pull!, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1938. The design features a tractor draw-bar, used to attach trailers to the tractor unit, against a modernist-inspired agricultural landscape.

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

TVO For Maximum Draw-bar Pull! 1938

£600.00

Original Shell poster: Winter Shell, Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1935. Dramatic black & white image of a wintry scene in the manner of the famous Shell Guides

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Winter Shell On Sale till Next May 1935

£1,000.00

Original poster: Winter Shell from October to May, by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1939. Design depicts single apple with autumnal leaf

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

Winter Shell, From October to May 1939

£750.00

Original Shell poster: You Can Be Sure of Shell, Edward McKnight Kauffer 1931. A chain with asymmetric lettering to suggest power and modernity.

Edward McKnight Kauffer,

You Can Be Sure of Shell 1931

£1,200.00