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Original propaganda posters, featuring rare designs from the First and Second World Wars, government information campaigns, and political posters. 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 poster Post Office Wireless Stations designed by Leslie MacDonald Gill, 1939. Unusual depiction of the British Isles on its side to show relationship between the various wireless stations. Full of detail including merchant ships, trawlers, passenger liners and a warship.

Leslie Macdonald Gill,

Post Office Wireless Stations 1939

$3,866.00

Original poster Post Office Wireless Stations designed by Leslie MacDonald Gill, 1939. Unusual depiction of the British Isles on its side to show relationship between the various wireless stations. Full of detail including merchant ships, trawlers, passenger liners and a warship.

Leslie Macdonald Gill,

Post Office Wireless Stations (hand signed signed by the artist) 1939

$3,866.00

Original Empire Marketing Board poster map designed by Leslie MacDonald ('Max') Gill, 1929, showing Northern Ireland & The Irish Free State with towns, produce and places of interest marked

Leslie Macdonald Gill,

A Map of The Irish Free State & Northern Ireland Portraying their Agricultural Products & Fisheries 1929

$3,802.00

original, advertising poster, A Great Industry Where Our Tea Comes From, created by Leslie MacDonald "Max" Gill for the Tea Market Expansion Board, 1937. The decorative design features maps of India, Ceylon, Sumatra and Java together with a smaller map locating the countries within the Indian Ocean.

Leslie Macdonald Gill,

A Great Industry: Where our tea comes from 1937

$3,544.00

Original Empire Marketing Board poster map, New Zealand. Leslie MacDonald Gill poster. Fishing, farming, mining, 1930s. Steam ships. Antique map.

Leslie Macdonald Gill,

New Zealand 1931

$3,544.00

extremely rare poster for the Second World Congress of the Partisans of Peace (WCPP), featuring the Dove of Peace designed specifically for the event by Pablo Picasso, 1950.

Second World Peace Congress, Sheffield, 1950 1950

$1,611.00

Original, rare, poster for the First International Peace Congress (Congrès mondial des Partisans de la paix), held in Paris, April 1949, featuring the Dove symbol designed specifically for the event by Pablo Picasso.

First World Peace Conference, Paris (Congrès mondial des Partisans de la paix) 1949

$1,031.00

Keep Britain Tidy poster, Abram Games, 1963. Pastiche of Britannia, with a figure seated in a dust cart holding a road brush while the spokes of the wheel cleverly represent the traditional Union Flag shield

Abram Games (1914-1996),

Keep Britain Tidy 1963

$1,031.00

original poster for the 1935 Berlin Länderkampf (international sporting competition) organised by the German Athletics Association. The competition was held at the Poststadion stadium and included competitors from Italy, Sweden, Hungary and German. The poster design, by Arthur Kampf, features a runner crossing the finishing line with the flags of the competing nations in the background

Arthur Kampf (1864-1950),

Länderkampf, Berlin 1935 1935

$838.00

China’s War is Our War

Henri Kay Henrion,

China’s War is Our War 1942

$838.00

Original Shepherd Fairey screen print, Idiocracy, 2016. Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil lower right.

Shepherd Fairey,

$580.00

An original poster for the Ludendorff Appeal, advertising re-training to disabled soldiers, designed by Ludwig Hohlwein in 1918. The image shows a wounded soldier holding tools.

Ludwig Hohlwein,

Ludendorff Appeal for the War-disabled 1918

$580.00

Second World War Home Front poster, For Progress in the Future, Save Now, by Eric Fraser, 1945. The picture is formed of a montage of products made from or relating to wood, fabric, coal, concrete and steel, together with various vegetables.

Eric Fraser (1902 1983),

For Progress in the Future, Save Now c.1944

$484.00

Original Anti-Nazi League designed by David King, 1978. National Front protest in Birmingham, with a group of men holding union flags flanked by police, and a close-up photographic image of Adolf Hitler on the left, under the slogan The National Front is a Nazi Front

The National Front is Nazi Front 1978

$387.00

An original British First World War poster, Your King & Country Need You, 1914, designed by Clarence Lawson Wood for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, the image depicts a veteran of earlier military campaigns shaking hands with a departing British soldier at a busy railway station.

Your King & Country Need You 1914

$387.00

Original vintage poster promoting homes for sale in Welwyn Garden City, with illustrations by Stanley Herbert

Stanley Herbert,

Springtime in Welwyn c.1935

$387.00

A British Conservative Party poster for the National Government coalition from the 1931 General Election. It depicts John Bull escaping the ‘plane crash’ of Socialist policy with the parachute of National Policy (Unity and Security).

National Government 1931

$387.00

Original First World War era Red Cross poster by illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, 1918. The design features a little boy folding up the red cross symbol to his window.

Jessie Willcox Smith,

Have you a Red Cross service flag ? 1918

$387.00

Original Chinese Communist Party poster, c. 1960s. The image depicts Chairman Mao greeting crowns of banner waving Chinese citizens. To his left, a Party official prominently displays his copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (known as ‘The Little Red Book’ in the West).

Chinese Communist Party political poster c. 1965-70

$355.00

National War Savings Committee poster, Make Your Money Work Too - Buy War Savings Certificates, by Charles Burton, 1919. The main image depicts a farmworker ploughing with a tractor (possibly an International Titan), in the direction of a solidly built red roofed farmhouse.

Charles Burton,

Make Your Money Work Too - Buy War Savings Certificates 1919

$355.00

Femme bien informée

Femme bien informée 1972

$336.00

East Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire. Please use your correct address

Robert Scanlan,

East Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire. Please use your correct address 1965

$336.00

Wheatstone's Tape Telegraph

Wheatstone's Tape Telegraph 1937

$336.00

poster, Leisure in Milton Keynes by Philip Castle, Milton Keynes Development Corporation, 1971. Two-sided poster showing the proposed leisure facilities for the then unbuilt town

Leisure in Milton Keynes 1971

$323.00

Original Anti-Nazi League designed by David King, 1978. Photograph of the Warsaw Ghetto under the slogan Never Again. Stop the Nazi National Front.

Never Again! 1978

$323.00

Post Early

Pieter Huveneers,

Post Early 1956

$323.00

Invest in National Savings, prosperity depends on what you do with what you've got

Invest in National Savings, prosperity depends on what you do with what you've got c. 1948

$323.00

1910-1935. National Savings - National Service

Septimus Edwin Scott,

1910-1935. National Savings - National Service 1935

$323.00

The peoples of the whole world are outraged! Shame on the Aggressors!

M. Abramov & A. Andreev,

The peoples of the whole world are outraged! Shame on the Aggressors! 1982

$323.00

original protest poster Troops out of Ireland now!, published by the International Marxist Group, c.1974. Photomontage by Peter Kennard, created to mark the Bloody Sunday massacre 1972

Stop the torture! For an international tribunal! Troops out of Ireland now!, 1974

$290.00

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist all-people state that represents the will and interests of workers, peasants and intelligentsia, working people of all nations and nationalities of the country.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist all-people state that represents the will and interests of workers, peasants and intelligentsia, working people of all nations and nationalities of the country. 1977

$290.00

Savings make happy people

Savings make happy people c 1954

$284.00

Original Chinese Communist Party poster, c. 1970. The image depicts Chairman Mao against a sunrise illuminating various Chinese workers proudly carrying their copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (known as ‘The Little Red Book’ in the West).

Chinese Communist Party political poster c. 1965-70

$258.00

Original Chinese Communist Party poster, c. 1967. The image depicts Chairman Mao as the centre of the sun, with a wide variety of Chinese citizens in the foreground holding aloft their copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (known as ‘The Little Red Book’ in the West).

Chinese Communist Party political poster c. 1965-70

$258.00

Let your shopping help our shipping

Let your shopping help our shipping c.1942

$258.00

Portsmouth and Plymouth Navy Days

Portsmouth and Plymouth Navy Days 1961

$252.00

Don't Leave Litter

Don't Leave Litter 1967

$239.00

Ideas will help beat the promise. Lets have yours!

Ideas will help beat the promise. Lets have yours! 1941-1945

$239.00

Original exhibition poster No Nuclear Weapons, Half Moon Photography Workshop, Bethnal Green, 1980. Features Haywain with Cruise Missiles by Peter Kennard, photomontage based on John Constable’s The Hay Wain, 1821

No Nuclear Weapons

$226.00

If you have a good idea, share it, send it to your local JPC

If you have a good idea, share it, send it to your local JPC 1965

$226.00

Uzbekistan theatre poster: Samarkand Legend

Uzbekistan theatre poster: Samarkand Legend 1978

$207.00

Uzbekistan theatre poster

Uzbekistan theatre poster 1978

$207.00

Uzbekistan theatre poster: Don Quixote

Uzbekistan theatre poster: Don Quixote 1978

$207.00

original protest poster, Stop the Criminal Trespass Law, c. 1976. Features photographs of previous successful student campaigns at Birmingham Polytechnic (1974) and Warwick University (1975)

Epic Productions,

Stop the Criminal Trespass Law c.1976

$194.00

kennardphillipps Study for a Head 7, 2016. Prime Minister David Cameron imposed on a page of the Financial Times with two strips torn from the eyeless face to reveal the office blocks of banking institutions

kennardphillipps (Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps),

Study for a Head 7 2016

$194.00

If you have a good idea, share it, send it to your local JPC

Gordon Burrell,

If you have a good idea, share it, send it to your local JPC 1965

$194.00

Let your greeting help a child. Buy UNICEF cards

Let your greeting help a child. Buy UNICEF cards 1983

$194.00

Help LEPRA fight Leprosy

Help LEPRA fight Leprosy 1975

$194.00

Original National Savings poster celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Features a portrait of the queen surrounded by ‘the Coronation Regalia’, within a border of former kings and queens of England.

The Coronation Regalia 1953

$162.00

4d is the minimum Foreign Letter postage rate

Kenneth Bromfield,

4d is the minimum Foreign Letter postage rate 1951

$162.00

Half the Empire East of the Suez

Frederick Charles Herrick?,

Half the Empire East of the Suez c.1928

$162.00

Mutually Beneficial !

Mutually Beneficial ! c.1975

$155.00

Mechanization and automation of production

Mechanization and automation of production c.1975

$129.00

Carry out drainage today

Carry out drainage today c.1975

$129.00

Books of Stamps save Time

Leonard Beaumont,

Books of Stamps save Time 1958

$123.00

Original, large format, 1960s General Post Office (GPO) information poster, showing the correct way to address an envelope.

Can you spot what's wrong ? c.1967

$110.00

Camden Miners Benefit gig poster, 1984. Depicts riot-gear wearing mounted police giving the Nazi salute beneath a flag of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in piratical mode, under the slogan No Police State

Camden Miners Benefit - No Police State 1984

$91.00

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 1945

$65.00

poster issued by the General Dental Council of Great Britain, Cleaning Foods for Good Sound Teeth. Designed by Montague Reed. The poster depicts graphic representations of ‘cleaning foods’ associated with good dental hygiene (such as apples and carrots) circling the photographic heads of a smiling woman.

Cleaning Foods for Good Sound Teeth c.1955

$58.00

UK fundraising appeal poster for the people of Grenada following the US invasion of Grenada in October 1983. The poster promotes a special gig at Huddersfield’s Cleopatra Club, featuring local sound system bands Skinhead and Earth Rocker, 12 November 1983.

War Cry! Grenadian Fund Raising Appeal 1983

$52.00

Original double-sided Coin Street Action Group poster/newsletter, 1982

Coin Street - Waterloo will win! 1982

$52.00

Original Official Souvenir Programme for the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, May 12th 1937

King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Coronation Programme 1937

$46.00

Original GPO poster National Savings Certificates

National Savings Certificates c. 1950

$33.00

Original poster, National Insurance, Exchange pink cards, 1950

Ministry of National Insurance,

Exchange pink cards c.1950

$26.00