Vintage Advertising Posters, Collecting or Investing or Both?
By: Carmel Baird , Posted On: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 This is what the president of Swann Galleries in New York USA, Nicholas Lowry, said about posters. “The great thing about posters is that they are accidental art. They were not meant to be saved. It’s meant to be advertising, to be rained on, torn down or plastered over. That’s the beauty of it” Posters are one of the most collectible of collectibles and none more so than the vintage advertising poster. Vintage advertising posters can be found on walls where once there was fine art. Some of these vintage posters can fetch as much as fine art at auctions and sales and are very sort after. These posters were the first advertising done to the masses and the graphics and artwork were meant to grab the attention of passersby. They were used to advertise a product or an event and meant only to last a few weeks. There have been records set in recent times for rare advertising posters from the Art Nouveau (1890-1914) and the Art Deco (19
