Travel Posters: An original early 1960s vintage ocean liner poster, produced by Thomas Cook ‘Tickets For All Shipping Lines – Here At Cooks’. 

This poster features The design features several named ships including; SS Liberte, SS Southern Cross, SS Rotterdam, SS Viet-Nam, SS Olympia, RMS Empress of Canada, RMS Windsor Castle, RMS Andes, RMS Caledonia, RMS Homeric, MS Willem Ruys, SS Oriana, SS United States, SS Ocean Monarch, TS Leda, MS Oranje, The RMS Queen Elizabeth, SS Leonard Da Vinci, RMS Rangitata and SS Uganda. 

Dimensions: 63.5cm x 100.5cm (25 x 39.5 inches) approximately.

Condition report: Good overall – Handling creases to edges, vertical creases visible to lower margin, some minor tearing to edges, lithographic printed some flaws to work edge – in rolled state. Colours bright displays well.

Thomas Cook

Thomas Cook are one of the most recognisable names in the British business. Operating since the mid-19th century the company were at the forefront of leisure travel industry from the outset.

During the 1950s and 1960s (when this poster was produced) Thomas Cook were promoting foreign travel to their customers, providing a range of new destinations. Flight and ocean liner travel were the cornerstone of this.

This vintage Cooks travel poster is one of a series produced by the company at this time. To see other examples please visit our store sold archive.

For more information on the history of the company visit:

https://www.thomascook.com/thomas-cook-history/

We have other pieces relating to travel and ocean liners included in our store. See WALTER THOMAS ARCA (British, 1894-1971) – An original poster design painting of a four funnel ocean liner, executed mid 1920s