Lac de Vassivière, Limousin, France, 1958A FINE original vintage poster from 1958 showing sailing boats on the Lac de Vassivires near Limoges in central France. Size 60cm x 40cm Condition Very good. If you would like to know more please get in touch. Background At the time this poster was published the lake was a novelty. A large reservoir on the plateau of Millevaches east of Limoges, it had only been opened in 1950. The picture shows a sailing club operated at the time by the Touring Club

Publisher European Recovery Programme

This spring scene was a reminder that winter sports were not its only attractions

The 36th Division suffered heavy losses there in the first days of the Battle of the Somme in 1916

Drawing pin marks at corners

Condition Fair

promoting the country's furniture makers

A CLASSIC original vintage photo poster of a paddle-steamer ferry on Lake Geneva

The images are not identified

The poster

Printer Rembrandt Photogravure Ltd

The picture shows on the left the St Nicholas Tower and the Chain Tower

Size 77cm x 51cm