Buy Your Victory Bonds, Original Canadian WWI Poster
- ca 1917
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40 x 56 inches ~ (101 x 142 cm)$2,870
- 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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Aonymous First World War Victory Bond poster depicts a Canadian soldier who pointedly asks members of the public to buy war bonds in support of the war effort. The design was loosely based on a First World War United States recruiting poster featuring a pointing "Uncle Sam." This has proven to be America's best-known poster ever and has been reproduced in the millions. Its original inspiration, in turn, was the celebrated 1914 image of Lord Kitchener exhorting Britons to join the British Army, also the most successful First World War recruiting poster the British government produced.
Photographed before linen backing.
