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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 (hand signed signed by the artist) 1939

£3,250.00

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 1939

£3,200.00

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

£2,950.00

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

£2,750.00

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

£1,250.00

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

£800.00

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

£650.00

China’s War is Our War

Henri Kay Henrion,

China’s War is Our War 1942

£650.00

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

£450.00

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

£300.00

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

Stanley Herbert,

Springtime in Welwyn c.1935

£300.00

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

£300.00

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

£300.00

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

£275.00

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

£275.00

Femme bien informée

Femme bien informée 1972

£260.00

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

Robert Scanlan,

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

£260.00

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

£250.00

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

£250.00

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

£250.00

1910-1935. National Savings - National Service

Septimus Edwin Scott,

1910-1935. National Savings - National Service 1935

£250.00

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

£225.00

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

£225.00

Savings make happy people

Savings make happy people c 1954

£220.00

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

£200.00

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

£200.00

Portsmouth and Plymouth Navy Days

Portsmouth and Plymouth Navy Days 1961

£195.00

Ideas will help beat the promise. Lets have yours!

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

£185.00

Uzbekistan theatre poster: Samarkand Legend

Uzbekistan theatre poster: Samarkand Legend 1978

£160.00

Uzbekistan theatre poster

Uzbekistan theatre poster 1978

£160.00

Uzbekistan theatre poster: Don Quixote

Uzbekistan theatre poster: Don Quixote 1978

£160.00

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

£150.00

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

£150.00

Let your greeting help a child. Buy UNICEF cards

Let your greeting help a child. Buy UNICEF cards 1983

£150.00

Help LEPRA fight Leprosy

Help LEPRA fight Leprosy 1975

£150.00

4d is the minimum Foreign Letter postage rate

Kenneth Bromfield,

4d is the minimum Foreign Letter postage rate 1951

£125.00

Half the Empire East of the Suez

Frederick Charles Herrick?,

Half the Empire East of the Suez c.1928

£125.00

Books of Stamps save Time

Leonard Beaumont,

Books of Stamps save Time 1958

£95.00

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

£85.00

General Post Office (GPO) poster from the Keeping in Touch series, <em>The Post Office At The Docks,</em> 1962. The image depicts a busy dockside scene of mail being loaded onto a vessel for overseas delivery, under the watchful eyes of uniformed GPO staff.

Keeping in Touch. The Post Office at the Docks 1962

£60.00

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

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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

£40.00

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

Coin Street - Waterloo will win! 1982

£40.00

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

£35.00

Original poster, National Insurance, Exchange pink cards, 1950

Ministry of National Insurance,

Exchange pink cards c.1950

£20.00