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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · Travel, Rail, and Liner
Orient-Express, London-Paris-Constantinople, Winter 1888-89, Poster
Unsigned · Orient-Express timetable poster, winter 1888-89, 1888
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A poster for the Orient-Express timetable of winter 1888-89: Paris, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade and Constantinople, a fast service without a change of carriage and without a passport.
Why it matters
It was printed by Imprimerie Chaix at its Chéret branch on the rue Brunel, the shop where Jules Chéret had made the colour poster a Paris trade.
What to notice
The selling points are practical: no change of carriage, no passport, and the season named.
Europe crossed in one seat, as a printed promise.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Unsigned
- Printer / house
- Imp. Chaix (succursale Chéret), Paris
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- Orient-Express timetable poster, winter 1888-89, 1888
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b6909523c
Live trademark
Orient Express — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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