A collection of original WW2 British propaganda posters currently accepting bids at David Lay Auctions. Most guide prices are between £30 and £200 but the one on the top left (£800 – £1000 guide) is the most valuable. To wit:
ABRAM GAMES 1914-1996 “Blonde Bombshell” WWII ATS Recruitment Poster Printed for HM Stationery Office by Fosh & Cross Ltd. 1941 73 x 48.5cm Note: When this poster was first issued, Games was criticised for making the design ‘too glamorous’ and it was withdrawn. Games went on to design the official stamp for the 1948 Olympic games and the emblem for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
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I don’t think that’s how boats work.
Tell that to the boys at the front.
It is if you don’t back them up.
these posters change hands for unreal sums of money when it comes to actual auction time, guide prices are pants, some original “Keep Calm” posters made STG£5000 earlier this year
It’s a shame the “Keep Calm” thing has been completely ruined. It was a great design and a very simple message.
Ruined? It’d have been practically forgotten if it wasn’t for the internets.
Ruined me eye.
It’s been diluted by the myriad variations of it. Keep Calm and Drink Wine, Keep Calm and Buy Shoes, Keep Calm and Have a Lobotomy. The original is still a beautiful piece of artwork mind you.
Hard to believe you’d get any of these for 30 quid.
The Merchant Navy one is AMAAAZING.
I’m bidding on it!
I assume that the “Blonde Bombshell” is the ATS poster. It’s not on the top right, though, but on the top other-right.
Sinister stuff.
They’re all lovely :)
How much do the nazi recruitment posters go for? There were some really top work, fupp that, they were well COOL stylistically :)
“Nothing from the Allied side?”
“No, that sort of thing wouldn’t interest me at all.”
Stunning posters.
The “take time off” ones are interesting, in occupied countries such as Czechoslovakia, it was a common tactic by the resistance to encourage workers to call in sick regularly. It was a fairly non-violent form of resistance that did harm Nazi arms production.
That ‘TOGETHER’ poster is the kind UKIPpers/Little Englanders conveniently forget when celebrating the war/forcing poppy day on everyone, etc.