Vintage Poster Issued by the Suriname Tourist Bureau, circa 1950

Name: Vintage Poster Issued by the Suriname Tourist Bureau, circa 1950
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12415
Price: 1680 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Date: 1950
Kind: Views & Engravings
Technique: Paper
Size: 70.5 × 49 cm (27.8 × 19.3 in)
Condition: Good. Repaired: slight repair at edges. Linen backed. Great condition. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Places: The Guianas
Reference: BG-12415

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Suriname, a color travel poster issued by the Suriname Tourist Bureau around 1950. The sheet is printed in bright, flat colors, with the word "suriname" set large in white lowercase letters across the foot, "South America" beneath it, and the bureau's information address, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, in small type at the lower right.

The scene is a riverside village in the tropical interior. Thatched huts stand on a yellow clearing in the foreground, with villagers in small groups between them and two flags flying side by side, one of them the red, white and blue Dutch tricolor. Behind lies a broad river with rapids and a dugout canoe, and a wall of dense forest and green hills rises beyond. A bright stylized sun hangs in the sky, and a white airliner flies across it above a dotted line lettered "Chicago, New York, Miami, Paramaribo", showing the air route a visitor from North America would take.

The Dutch flag reflects Suriname's position at that date as part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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