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Original protest and propaganda posters, featuring designs from the First and Second World Wars, government information campaigns, political and protest 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

1910-1935. National Savings - National Service

Septimus Edwin Scott,

1910-1935. National Savings - National Service 1935

£250.00

Original Time Out poster by legendry street artist Banksy, features the artist wearing a dishevelled Guardsman’s uniform with monkey mask against a spray-painted wall

Banksy Time Out London, 2010 2010

£400.00

China’s War is Our War

Henri Kay Henrion,

China’s War is Our War 1942

£650.00

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

£250.00

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

Coin Street - Waterloo will win! 1982

£40.00

Limited edition signed screen print of the original Festival of Britain drawing by Abram Games (1950), published to coincide with the exhibition Abram Games - 60 Years in Design, 1990. Signed in pencil by Games and numbered (of 150)

Festival of Britain Signed Limited Edition screen print (Abram Games) 1990

£400.00

Half the Empire East of the Suez

Frederick Charles Herrick?,

Half the Empire East of the Suez c.1928

£125.00

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

Help LEPRA fight Leprosy

Help LEPRA fight Leprosy 1975

£150.00

Ideas will help beat the promise. Lets have yours!

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

£185.00

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

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

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Let your greeting help a child. Buy UNICEF cards

Let your greeting help a child. Buy UNICEF cards 1983

£150.00

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

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

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 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

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

£175.00

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

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden 1985

£175.00

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