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Travel Poster Dean & Dawson Tours Cruises

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Original vintage travel poster promoting Tours & Cruises 1924 Organised by Dean & Dawson Ltd 84 Piccadilly W1 and Branches featuring a stunning view through overgrown pillar arches of a lake in Europe with flowering plants, trees and buildings in the foreground and green hills and rocky mountains below the blue sky on the other side of the calm reflective water framed by the stylised lettering on the brown border. One of the oldest travel agencies, Dean & Dawson was founded in the late 1800s as a merger between Joseph Dean (who formed a travel agency 1871 and printing company in 1890) and businessman John Dawson; the agency's first holiday package tour was to Paris in 1878 and the company was run in partnership with the railways; in 1938 it was taken over by Thomas Cook; the printers still exist today as Deanprint and the travel agency offers bespoke and specialist holidays as Dean & Dawson. Stafford & Co Ltd Netherfield Notts. Excellent condition, minor staining, backed on linen. Country of issue: UK, designer: Charles J Jennings, size (cm): 101x62.5, year of printing: 1924

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Original vintage travel poster promoting Tours & Cruises 1924 Organised by Dean & Dawson Ltd 84 Piccadilly W1 and Branches featuring a stunning view through overgrown pillar arches of a lake in Europe with flowering plants, trees and buildings in the foreground and green hills and rocky mountains below the blue sky on the other side of the calm reflective water framed by the stylised lettering on the brown border. One of the oldest travel agencies, Dean & Dawson was founded in the late 1800s as a merger between Joseph Dean (who formed a travel agency 1871 and printing company in 1890) and businessman John Dawson; the agency's first holiday package tour was to Paris in 1878 and the company was run in partnership with the railways; in 1938 it was taken over by Thomas Cook; the printers still exist today as Deanprint and the travel agency offers bespoke and specialist holidays as Dean & Dawson. Stafford & Co Ltd Netherfield Notts. Excellent condition, minor staining, backed on linen. Country of issue: UK, designer: Charles J Jennings, size (cm): 101x62.5, year of printing: 1924

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