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Travel Poster Fly There By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - Original vintage Asia, Australia and Oceania travel poster - Fly There by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, featuring a design by the Dutch artist Frans Mettes (1909-1984), depicting a flight attendant in a dark cap with a crowned insignia badge, peering over a map detailing international flight connections, illustrated cultural vignettes populate the landmasses, including camels, a traditional oxcart, a geisha by a torii gate, a snake charmer, and a kangaroo, with network lines connecting Karachi, Colombo, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Tokyo, Sydney and Biak. A four-engine propeller airliner flies through the cloudy sky above the flight attendant, balanced by the round company emblem over a pattern of diagonal stripes along the bottom margin. Good condition, creasing, tears, minor staining. Country of issue: Netherlands, designer: Frans Mettes, size (cm): 101x64, year of printing: 1950s.