Emprunt de la Victoire 5 1/2 % Canadian WWI Bond Poster
- ca 1918
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24 x 36 inches ~ (60 x 91 cm)$465
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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Like many other Western countries within the Allied Powers during World War I, Canada supported the financial costs of its contributions to the war effort by selling bonds to its citizens and commercial bodies in waves of campaigns throughout the length of the conflict. These Victory Bond campaigns were supported by widespread poster campaigns, which were printed in both French and English to reach the widest audience and usually contained war imagery and/or information on the bonds themselves. Heritage offers for the first time a French-language poster supporting a Victory Bond campaign toward the end of the war, prominently displaying the 5.5% interest rate investors could expect to accrue in their 5, 10, or 20-year pacts with the Canadian government.
