Travel Poster Kenya Africa Fly There By BOAC. Original vinta...

Hammer

£200

Travel Poster Kenya Africa Fly There By BOAC. Original vintage travel poster advertising Kenya in East Africa - Make a date with the sun ... in wonderful Kenya Fly there by BOAC - featuring a colourful design with photos and captions of Mount Kenya showing the rocky mountain peaks below a blue sky, a lion lying down and looking towards the viewer labelled Amboseli Lion next to a photo of people sunbathing below the palm trees on the sandy Mombasa Beaches and Maasai warriors holding spears and shields labelled Tribal Dance over an outline drawing of an elephant raising its trunk below a bright stylised sun with the text above and below. (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.) Designed and printed by Storey Evans Co Ltd, Yorkshire, England. Good condition, restored tears, backed on linen. Country of issue: UK, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 75.5x51, year of printing: 1955.