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Period: 1940s
Original Vintage Soviet Union Military Propaganda Poster Baltic Navy Fleet USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet military propaganda poster commemorating the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution / Октябрьская революция featuring an image of a Baltic Navy sailor in ...
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Estonian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

The Outlaw
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1942 Western The Outlaw. This film was produced and directed by Howard Hughes, and stars Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell and Jane Russell. It tells the story of Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

1940s Landscape Painting
Located in New York, NY
Created in the 1940s, this painting has an air of nostalgia and foreboding. It depicts a house set against the backdrop of not-so-distant skyscrapers. The city fades into gray in con...
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Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Fishermen Painting, 1940s
Located in Savannah, GA
An oil on canvas of a fishing charter boat at sea with fishermen. Likely an illustration for a publication circa 1940s. canvas: 27 by 21 inches frame: 31 by 25 inches Fair overall...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paint

Original Vintage War Home Front Poster Put Out Waste Paper Ammunition WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front recycling poster - Put out waste paper It is used for ammunition and other vital needs - featuring a dramatic image of a soldier firing a ma...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

"Young Woman in Blue Dress", Stunning 1940s Portrait of Blonde Female
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fresh and vibrant portrait of a young woman with glowing blond hair and a blue 1940s frock is one of the finest World War II vintage portraits we have ever offered. Her complex...
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American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paint

Original Vintage WWII Railway Poster - In War and Peace We Serve GWR LMS LNER SR
By Reginald Mayes
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two travel advertising poster - In War and Peace We Serve - published by the Big Four railway companies of the time (1923-1947): Great Western Railway GWR,...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Carved Wood Silver Leaf Shield
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1940's Italian Carved wood silver-leafed shield. Measurements: Diameter: 36" Depth: 2"
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Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Silver Leaf

Large Impasto Painting of House on the Water by Lephe Kingsley Holden
Located in Redding, CT
Large Impasto Painting of House on the Water by Lephe Kingsley Holden. Signed lower right. Lephe Kingsley Holden (1881 - 1973) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York. Lephe Holden was a painter and art teacher. She was born in Hadley, Massachusetts on May 1, 1881. She was the daughter of Elbridge Kingsley and Elizabeth (Cook) Kingsley. Elbridge Kingsley was a painter, wood engraver and illustrator for the Century Co. Lephe was a graduate of Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Massachusetts and the Art Student's League, New York. She studied privately with Augustus V. Tack, Dwight Tryon, Guy Wiggins, George E. Browne, Hippolito Hidalgo, and Ed Carviedes. Holden taught art at Maxwell Training College, New York (1908-1912). She married Samuel M. Holden on October 1912, and they were married until his death in January 1936. Holden also served as the Director of Art Instruction in Westport, Connecticut School System (1927-1947). Initially she was the only art teacher, but at the time of her retirement there were five assistant instructors. She exhibited with the American Watercolor Society Education: Pratt Institute; Art Students League, NYC; With George Elmer Browne; Guy Wiggins Summer Art School, Essex, Connecticut, 1936. Membership: Key West Art and Historical Society; Key West Artists...
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Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Wood, Masonite, Paint

Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Fight For Freedom Half Slave Free WWII
By John Falter
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - This world cannot exist half slave and half free Fight For Freedom! - featuring a dynamic image by the American artist John Falter ...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

The Lost Weekend
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 6 for the 1944 Film Noir The Lost Weekend. This film was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry. This piece woul...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

The Lost Weekend / Dias Sin Huella
Located in London, GB
Original Argentine film poster for the 1945 Drama / Film Noir The Lost Weekend. This film was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Ray Milland, Jane Wyman ...
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Argentine Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Original Signed Gelatin Print Photograph by Harry Rowed, Canada, Circa 1940s
Located in Peabody, MA
An original signed silver gelatin print entitled “The Summit Route” photographed in the northern Rockies by the important Canadian photojournalist Harry Rowed, ca. 1930-40s. Rowed ga...
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Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

The Stranger
Located in London, GB
Original British movie poster for the 1946 Film Noir directed by Orson Welles and starred Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles and Loretta Young. This po...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Oil on Cardboard Boats on the Sea in 1940 with Lacquered Frame
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Oil on cardboard boats on the sea in 1940 with lacquered frame.
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Wood

Vintage Persian Heriz Oriental Rug, Room Size, W/ Central Medallion
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Persian Heriz oriental rug, Room size A vintage Persian Heriz oriental rug, size 13'6" x 10'2", circa 1940. This handsome hand-woven geom...
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Asian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Wool

Original Vintage World War Two Poster Sleep To Gather Strength WWII Churchill
By Feliks Topolski
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster featuring an image of an ARP Warden resting his head on his hand while napping against a brick wall below a notice - ... It all depends on me an...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

La Belle Et La Bete or Beauty and the Beast
Located in London, GB
Original Italian lobby card from the Classic 1946 fantasy film. The film had it's first Italian release one year later in 1947. Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's novel, La Belle et la Bête...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Icelandic Countryside, Watercolor by Thomas B. Gay c. 1943
Located in Savannah, GA
A watercolor landscape depicting a farm in the Icelandic countryside. The painting was a gift from the artist Thomas B. Gay, who was stationed with the 624th Eng. Camouflage Company...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Original Vintage World War Two Supply Poster Binoculars Wanted Urgently WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Wanted Urgently Our Fighting Services must have and will buy every suitable pair of binoculars now privately owned They need yours now! We are...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Post War White Orchid Airbrush Painting on Paper by Tip Freeman, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Vintage Wood Framed Painting with White Orchid Motif, by Tip Freeman This painting by American artist Tip Freeman depicts a White Orchid. This artwork has...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Signed Oil on Board Impressionist Landscape Painting 17" x 21" circa 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
Oil on board Impressionist style landscape painting, likely American, circa 1940s. Signed lower right. It measures 17"H x 21", framed.
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Signed coastal beach painting by Frank Proschwitzky Freyburg
Located in Redding, CT
Signed coastal beach painting by Frank Proschwitzky Freyburg. (1862 -1940) Of British-German descent but lived in the United States. Please confirm dimensions prior to purchase.
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Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Wood, Masonite, Paint

"Adolescent Parallels, " Midcentury Mural Design with Male Youths, 1949
By George Frederick Hinchcliff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A remarkable vision of brotherly utopia, with a hint of homoeroticism, this beautiful study was painted by British artist George Frederick Hinchcliff in preparation for a proposed mu...
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British Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paint

Original Vintage World War Two Poster Lick Them Over There WWII Canada Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Lick Them Over There! Come On Canada! - featuring a dramatic image depicting soldier in uniform holding a bayonet rifle gun in one hand and lo...
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Canadian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster London Blitz Bombarded Street War Office Training
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Street Scenes Series Fig. 2 (to be viewed at 4-5 yards) - issued by the War Office and intended for rifle shooting directional training featuring artwork by Beric Young (1902-1963) depicting a war torn London street scene with damaged buildings and broken windows, fallen pylons, a tank under rubble from a bank, a double decker bus on its side and an ambulance crashed into a bomb crater in the road, the colourful image including trees, factories and chimneys, a Co-Op Cooperative Stores shop and a hospital on the hills in the background, London Underground stations and a clock tower in the centre, a teashop, church spire, camouflage tank, railway train signals...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Axel Salto for Royal Copenhagen. Large and impressive ceramic sculpture of deer
Located in København, Copenhagen
Axel Salto (1889-1961) for Royal Copenhagen. Large and impressive ceramic sculpture of a deer. Art Deco style. Model number 20697. Approximately from 1940. Marked. Perfect condition....
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Danish Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Ceramic

Original Vintage WWII Propaganda Poster Careless Talk Costs Lives Keep To Myself
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front propaganda poster - What I know I keep to myself Careless talk costs lives - featuring an image of a man in a suit and cap winking at the vi...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Son of Fury / Il Figlio della Furia
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1942 film Son of Fury starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney and George Sanders. This film was directed by John Cromwel...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Son of Fury / Il Figlio della Furia
Son of Fury / Il Figlio della Furia
$1,365 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed French Framed Artwork Resting Nude Woman Hand Carved Bleached Oak Frame
Located in Miami, FL
Signed French framed artwork resting nude woman hand carved bleached oak frame.
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French French Provincial Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Paint, Oak

Goodyear Trophy Race Award, National Air Races, Art Deco Panel by Chambellan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This highly important and historic plaque, one of Goodyear's early trophy race awards for light racer airplanes in 1948, was given to Robert S. Hopkins to honour the entry of his plane in the National Air Races that year in Cleveland, Ohio. The year before, Hopkins' plane, The Falcon Special, lost a wing in one of the qualifying heats and his pilot, C. P. Smith, bailed out in time; both Hopkins and Smith were from Reidsville, North Carolina. Goodyear commissioned Rene Chambellan...
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American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Bronze

Original Vintage War Poster Soviet Pilot Civil Air Fleet Partisans USSR WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet World War Two propaganda poster featuring a dynamic design depicting a Soviet air force pilot with medals on his uniform below a thick coat, wearing flying go...
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Russian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Flamingo Road / Viale Flamingo
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1949 Film Noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott. This siz...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Mighty Joe Young
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1949 Andventure, Fantasy film Mighty Joe Young. The film was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and stared Terry Moore...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Tarzan and the Amazons
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card for Tarzan and the Amazons 1945 This action advenure film starred Jonny Weissmuller and Brenda Joyce. The film was directed by Kurt...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Rebeca
Located in London, GB
Original Argentinean film poster from (1940) 43 x 29 in. (109 x 74 cm) This poster would have been used outside the cinema at the films original release. This psychological drama-t...
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Argentine Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

Rebeca
Rebeca
$3,755
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed Ghiglia Still Life Painting, 1940
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Framework oil on canvas, first canvas, depicting still life with fruit and vegetables of good pictorial quality. Painting of...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Canvas

Expressionist painting by Robert Deman, Belgium 1940s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 1940 / painting / Robert Deman / wood, canvas / Mid-century An oil painting of a solitary man seated at a rustic wooden table, exuding an air of contemplation and introsp...
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Belgian Expressionist Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Jacques Villon Style Cubist Still Life
By Jacques Villon
Located in Sharon, CT
A beautiful unsigned oil on canvas in the School of Paris Cubist style of Jacques Villon.
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French Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paint

Junichiro Sekino Signed Limited Edition Japanese Print Yosaku Feeling Ill, 1948
Located in Studio City, CA
A truly wonderful and exceedingly rare early limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist/printmaker Junichiro Sekino. This print, titled "Yosaku Feeling Ill", is one of Sekino's earliest known works. A very dramatic image done in black and white, this work features the artist himself in a self-portraiture as he comforts his young son (who evidently does not feel well) in an almost playful and knowing manner. The print is double signed - once in white ink within the image and also hand pencil signed and numbered (9/30) by Sekino in the lower margin. The image features a focused and rather direct composition emphasized by the use of just the two colors. It is an exquisite and very rare/hard-to-find work. Quite engaging. A must for collectors of Sekino's work. Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th-century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the British Museum, and the Portland Art Museum among many other Fine museums throughout the world. Would be a fantastic addition to any modern Japanese print...
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Japanese Showa Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Original Vintage Election Propaganda Poster Marianne Liberty MRP Republican Art
By Lucien Bertaux
Located in London, GB
Original vintage election propaganda poster - Batir la France avec le peuple MRP Mouvement Republicain Populaire / Building France with the people Po...
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French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Rita Hayworth Portrait Photo
Located in London, GB
Original Rita Hayworth portrait photo. This is a silver gelatin, double weight satin photograph from 1940s. This piece would be shipped flat in strong card.
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Shockproof
Located in London, GB
Two atmospheric original production still for the 1949 Film Noir classic starring Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knoght, John Baragrey. The film was directed by Douglas Sirk.   
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

"Secret Beyond The Door, " Original Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1948 Film Noir directed Fritz Langs Film Noir staring Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave. This poster is conservation linen backed and it would be sh...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

"Under the El", WPA-Era Painting of Philadelphia Market by Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in a palette of canary yellow, orange-red, browns and blues, this WPA-period painting of an open-air market under the Market-Frankford elevated train line ("the El") in Philadelphia was executed by Dorothy Van Loan...
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American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paint

T-Men
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1948 Film Noir T-Men Directed by Anthony Mann and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford. This piece is paper backed and ...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

T-Men
T-Men
$239
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Back Them WWII Up Hudsons Coastal Command
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Back Them Up! A raid by "Hudsons" of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aelesund Norway in which eleven ships were hit - fea...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Wall wood sculpted by Carl Einar Borgstrom 44
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Wood wall sculpture signed C A Borgstrom 44 , Swedish artist 1914 / 1981
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Swedish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Wood

Original WW2 Poster, ‘Englishman, This Man Is Your Friend He Fights for Freedom’
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War II propaganda poster ‘This Man is your Friend-Englishman-He Fights for Freedom. Great black and white photograph of a smiling English soldier in uniform wearing a hat and holding a sub machine gun on his shoulder with the text in stylized black and white letters...
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

"The Adventures of Don Juan" or "Le Avventure Di Don Giovarri" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Don June. This was Errol Flynn's last big budget. Movie and a perfect role for Flynn. The poster features beautiful artwo...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Original Vintage World War Two Poster Your Tanks In Action WWII Basutoland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Your Tanks In Action Thank you Basutoland - featuring four captioned military illustrations of British tanks used to defeat the Axis powers during the Western Desert Campaign / North Africa Campaign (the Egypt Libya Desert War 1940-1943), with thanks to the British Crown Colony of Basutoland (1884-1966; the Kingdom of Lesotho). The captions read - Generous contributions from Basutoland have helped to buy British...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Collective Farms Enemy Paratroopers WWII USSR Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet World War Two propaganda poster - Turn Collective Farms into an Impregnable Fortress for the Enemy - featuring great artwork in black and white shades depicti...
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Russian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

"The French Line" Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British Trade Advertisement for the 1942 comedy romance starring Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland and Arthur Hunnicutt. The film was directed by Lloyd Bacon.
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

"Train of Event" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1949 Ealing Studios drama starring Valerie Hobson, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson. The film was directed by Sidney Cole, C...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

Antique Persian Baktiari Oriental Rug, in Room size, w/ Garden Design
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Persian Baktiari Oriental Rug, Room size A vintage Baktiari oriental rug, size 13'0" x 10'4", circa 1940. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a garden design in...
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Persian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Wool

Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese movie poster for Classic 1939 Gangster film starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Priscilla Lane. Directed by Raoul Walsh. The film did not get a release in Ja...
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Japanese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

Pair of Signed Tommi Parzinger Silkscreen Prints
Located in St. Louis, MO
Pair of early examples of Tommi Parzinger silkscreened prints, signed in pencil, original frames, frames 17" diameter, art 14" diameter.
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Screen

Artist George Samerjan WPA Style Watercolor "Roller at Van Nuys Blvd" 1941
By George Samerjan
Located in St. Louis, MO
Artist George Samerjan's (1915-2005) WPA style watercolor titled "Roller at Van Nuys" 1941, in its original artist selected and hand painted frame, but re-fra...
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American Expressionist Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Wood, Paper

Black Angel
Located in London, GB
Original US movie poster for Roy William Neill's, 1946 Film Noir starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre.
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American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

Original Vintage War Poster Careless Talk Fougasse Bus Train Transport WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965) from the popular and iconic Careless Talk Costs Lives...
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British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations

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Paper

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