I
f Jeremy Sacher tires of looking at a verdant Queen’s Park through the windows of his west London home, he needs only to step into his kitchen to find a view of New York’s Times Square or an Imperial Airways flying boat heading for Cape Town.
Sacher, you see, is an avid collector of travel posters created during the early decades of the 20th century to entice the adventurous into a world gradually being made smaller by trains, planes and automobiles.
Back then such ephemera was used as a cheap, cheerful and entirely disposable way to promote the services of shipping companies, airlines and railways. But now surviving examples of the best vintage travel posters have become valuable and highly sought-after.
Sacher began collecting more than 40 years ago when, as the head of a design company, he found himself making regular trips to studios in New York.
