Original vintage travel advertising poster for BOAC World Air Routes Eastern Hemisphere featuring a pictorial map with colourful illustrations of people in national dress, places of historic interest, mountain ranges, animals and ships at sea with a decorative compass point on the Pacific Ocean, the airline route marked in lines across the continents and the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean. Issued by British Overseas Airways Corporation in Association with Qantas Empire Airways Limited, South African Airways and Tasman Empire Airways. The British Overseas Airways Corporation / BOAC was the British state airline created in 1940-1946 as the result of a merger between Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd, introducing the world's first passenger jets to its service in 1952 and merging again in 1971-1974 to create British Airways / BA. Printed in Great Britain by McCorquodale and Co Ltd. Horizontal. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, minor staining, backed on linen.
