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Posters
We are pleased to offer a fine selection of war posters issued during the First World War from a substantial archive collection formed during the period until recently held by a prominent American institution. Some of these posters are well known, others less so, some by important artists, other anonymous, but they are all rare and remarkable for their survival today. As a visual art form they vary from the most dramatic and emotive images of war and its consequences, to broadsheets containing a simple, but often powerful, message.
Poster Grade/Condition Information
To give an indication of the condition of our original WW1 posters we have graded them as follows.
Grade 1 - The poster may have been lightly folded, may have marginal tears, and is complete.
Grade 2 - The poster has been folded or has small marginal tears, but is complete.
Grade 3 - Folded or with marginal tears, small loss to the margins, the image without loss.
Grade 4 - Folded or torn with some loss affecting the main image, but still very presentable.
Grade 5 - Folded and torn, loss affecting main image, but still presentable.
Grade 6 - Poor condition with folds, tears and losses; best suited for framing.
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ARE YOU 100% AMERICAN?
Product Code: C1022
On white background, framed in red, an appeal to buy bonds for Third Liberty Loan. Above the text the American Eagle, grey, between two US flags, a smoking howitzer on the outside of each flag. USTD poster. At the bottom of the poster, on a blue shield against red and white stripes, a statement t...
Our price: £45.00
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ARE YOU A VICTORY CANNER?
Product Code: C1016
Columbia stands behind bottles and jars of preserves and assorted farm produce. The observer is asked to write to the National War Garden Commission for a free book. Very attractive poster, on photographic paper. Condition of poster is grade 1.
Our price: £175.00
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BLOOD OR BREAD
Product Code: C1020
A dramatic image, in sombre shades of brown, of a gunner in steel helmet, stripped to the waist, behind a gun. He holds the recumbent figure of a comrade, wounded in the head. The caption is below, in orange, and below that four lines of text urging people to eat only what they need while others ...
Our price: £250.00
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CAN VEGETABLES, FRUIT AND THE KAISER TOO
Product Code: C1009
National War Garden Commission poster shows Kaiser in one of three jars of preserves, his pickelhaube on top and sword draped round the jar. “Free book (on canning) available on request”. A note about the artist is attached to the poster. Condition of poster is grade 2.
Our price: £225.00
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CONCERT EN GRANGE du XVIIe CA
Product Code: C1042
French poster advertising XVII Army Corps Barn Concert (lit trans) with the additional information that the first concert was given at Somme-Suippes on 1st November 1914 (French text). One half of the poster is taken up with a striking charcoal drawing of a French soldier in greatcoat and full ma...
Our price: £85.00
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DEFEAT THE KAISER AND HIS U-BOATS
Product Code: C1026
Another USFA poster on stiff cardboard. Telling image in black, grey and orange of the Kaiser in profile (dark green complexion) and beyond him the black shape of a U-Boat which has just claimed a victim. "Victory depends on which fails first, food or frightfulness." Headline and message in white...
Our price: £275.00
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DON'T WASTE FOOD WHILE OTHERS STARVE
Product Code: C1015
USFA poster. Poignant image of starving family - mother with crying baby in one arm, the other round her starving little daughter. Behind are the upraised arms of starving people, appealing. Condition of poster is grade 1.
Our price: £125.00
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E-E-E-YAH-YIP
Product Code: C1032
Splendidly Gung Ho marine recruiting poster, all orange with black lettering. Depicts, from bottom left to top right, steel helmeted head and shoulders of a shouting marine with rifle and fixed bayonet at the high port. Caption continues GO OVER WITH US MARINES. Condition of poster is grade 2.
Our price: £285.00
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FIGHT - OR BUY BONDS
Product Code: C1008
Very colourful, dramatic image, on blue/white background, of a glamorous, black-haired young woman in white, sleeveless flowing garment holding aloft the Stars and Stripes in one hand and pointing with the other to ranks of steel-helmeted, determined-looking soldiers marching in column with rifle...
Our price: £750.00
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