BEA British European Airways Luggage Porter

Original vintage advertising poster for BEA British European Airways featuring a fun mid-century design by the Italian painter and graphic artist Hugo Giammusso (1907-1977) depicting a porter with a moustache, smoking a pipe and wearing a blue uniform and cap, running through the air on white clouds as stepping stones next to an outline of a plane with a pair of feathered wings on his back, holding a duck with a luggage label on its leg under his arm and pushing a luggage trolley piled high with various items of cargo including addressed envelopes on wooden crates, a fresh fruit basket, a flower pot, and a pair of chickens looking out of an open cage, a label on the rooster's neck, against a light pink and blue shaded sky with the stylised text and bold BEA logo with a blue winged key emblem ("the key to Europe") above. BEA was a British airline operating services within the UK and to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from 1946 to 1974 when it merged with BOAC to form British Airways. Printed by Menaglia, Rome. Fair condition, repaired tears, creasing, staining, restored paper losses on edges, faint overprinted lettering.