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Posters mean one thing when they're printed. But then, they take on a life of their own. Color your world – and express yourself! in posters.

From promotional fans and periodicals to original illustrations and pamphlets, not everything in a Rare Posters auction is a poster. Below we highlight some of the best non-posters available in our June 26 auction.

One of the biggest misconceptions about buying a vintage poster is that it needs to expensive to be considered a brilliant work of art. Our Creative Director, Jim McCobb picks…

Two American women in Paris. Thirty years distant from one another. They each defined radical revolutionary forms of entertainment in the Parisian cabaret, and became the most famous Americans in…

Smoking isn’t cool any more. But it’s really tough to argue that these Art Deco cigarette posters aren’t impossibly cool. From the stylized faces to minimalist Object posters, they successfully…

There was the world before Hiroshima. And then there was the world after Hiroshima. Much of the world was convinced that civilization-ending nuclear holocaust was inevitable – and sooner, rather…

The poster explosion, which overtook Paris in the 1890s, can be traced to one artist – Jules Chéret (1836-1932) – and the printing house where he produced his work, l’Imprimerie…

Your curiosity will not kill these cats.

Technology – rapidly evolving technology – is so much a part of our world today, it can be bizarre to imagine a world before this one. That's why vintage posters are…