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✈️ Japanese Air Lines: Bangkok – Young Thai Dancers – c.1965 – Original Poster / Plakat | 100.5 × 62.5 cm | Japan
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✈️ JAL: Bangkok – Young Thai Dancers – c.1965 – Original Poster (Japan)
Jet‑Age destination advertising with Thai classical dress and temple iconography | 100.5 × 62.5 cm | Japan
🎬 Introduction
A saturated photographic tableau presents two young Thai dancers in brocade—one glowing in lacquered orange, the other in emerald—adorned with jasmine garlands and jeweled caps. They pose before temple spires and a lone palm set against an impossibly blue Bangkok sky. The composition resolves to a clean lower panel: the word “Bangkok” in crisp, modernist typography, aligned with JAL’s red crane roundel and a sleek jet silhouette.
Marketed as “Bangkok II – Young Thai Dancers,” the poster exemplifies mid‑century airline design that paired high‑fidelity color photo‑lithography with internationalist type. It reads instantly from a travel‑agency window while lingering on cultural specificity rather than generic resort imagery.
✨ Why It Matters
This is Jet‑Age diplomacy in poster form: a national carrier acting as cultural ambassador, inviting travel through emblematic ritual dress. The red crane logo (introduced by JAL in 1959) and the jet profile root the piece in the airline’s early long‑haul era, supporting a mid‑1960s date. Surviving examples are scarcer than initial print runs imply; agency copies were tacked up, sun‑struck, and discarded. The “II” designation denotes a series variant—collectors often seek to assemble the Bangkok set across layouts. Cross‑collecting appeal spans airline and aviation ephemera, Southeast Asian cultural iconography, and mid‑century photographic poster design, making this a versatile anchor in a Jet‑Age wall.
📐 Poster Details
- Year: c.1965
- Country: Japan
- Size: 100.5 × 62.5 cm
- Studio / Publisher: Japan Air Lines (JAL)
🔎 Condition
Very good vintage condition with strong, unfaded color and clean presentation. Minor discoloration at the lower right—likely brief past moisture exposure — with no loss to image impact. Ships safely rolled in a sturdy tube.
Specifications
ConditionVery goodColorsBlue, Multi ColorMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeLargeHeight100 cmWidth62 cm
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Berlin, GermanyOn Whoppah since August 2023 • 12 sales