Advertising Poster BOAC Airline Air Freight Elephant Midcent...

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Advertising Poster BOAC Airline Air Freight Elephant Midcentury Manfred Reiss. Original vintage travel advertising poster promoting air freight services with BOAC featuring a fun and colourful mid-century style graphic design by Manfred Reiss (1922-1987) of a smiling elephant holding onto a Speedbird plane logo with its trunk, the diagonal text trailing two smaller logos: You can send almost anything by Air Freight. (The British Overseas Airways Corporation / BOAC was the British state airline created in 1940-1946 as the result of a merger, introducing the world's first passenger jets to its service in 1952 and merging again in 1971-1974 to create British Airways / BA.) Printed in Great Britain. Excellent condition, small minor stains, backed on linen. Country of issue: UK , designer: Manfred Reiss, size (cm): 76.5x51, year of printing: 1955.

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Auction Date: 20th Apr 2024 at 2pm

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