Vintage Posters

One of the most valuable types of posters you can find today are vintage posters. Original vintage posters may sell at auction sites for good money while even vintage poster recreations can still be competitively priced. Vintage posters may refer to reproductions of famous artwork, educational posters, historical and collectible posters or vintage movie posters. Vintage posters are usually framed and matted, since the image is often times priceless and unprotected posters have a short lifespan. The conventional size for vintage posters is about 24 x 36, though posters can be larger or smaller depending on the artistic vision.

In-Demand Vintage Posters

Some of the top selling vintage posters today include vintage posters of movie stars or old movies. These may include comedy posters such as Abbott and Costello vintage poster art, crime capers like Al Capone, Anatomy Of A Murder and Bonnie And Clyde, Blaxpoitation and exploitation cult classics such as Blacula or Barbarella, and horror flicks from new age classics like Halloween to legendary monster movies like King Kong and Godzilla. Another popular trend is the buying of “cheesecake posters” which are vintage pinup posters of attractive women from from past eras, as early as the 1920's and as late as the 1970's. Some famous pin-up girls include Betty Grable and Jane Russell, and in the modern age, Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Tiegs.

Other Types Of Vintage Posters

There are other types of vintage posters to choose from, depending on your own nostalgic tastes. You may have a strong interest in international travel and appreciate a vintage Italian poster, a vintage French poster or vintage Hawaii posters. Vintage travel posters may be of travel scenery or of an image that embodied the country's unique atmosphere. International vintage posters are available online and from souvenir shops.

There are also vintage political posters, which let you relive the good old days of a competent administration, and vintage advertising posters that can bring you a chuckle over yesterday's advertising gimmicks and brilliantly abstract artistic style. There are also vintage bicycle posters, for riding enthusiasts and vintage wine posters, for those art-lovers and wine drinkers of exquisite tastes. The most delicious selection may be the vintage black light poster, which casts a strong image in front of a black light lamp, allowing psychedelic colors and optical illusions that move when you stare at them.

Vintage posters are a great way to not only relive the past, but to savor the moments.