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Original vintage World War Two food propaganda poster against waste - This wasted food cost sailors' lives - depicting two plates with uneaten food and bread left on them with cigarette butts and mustard, salt and pepper on the tablecloth above. Good condition, restored tears and minor paper loss, backed on linen. During the Second World War, German U-boats sank nearly 14.7 million tons of Allied shipping, which amounted to 2,828 ships (around two thirds of the total allied tonnage lost). The United Kingdom alone suffered the loss of 11.7 million tons, which was 54% of the total Merchant Navy fleet at the outbreak of the Second World War. 32,000 merchant seafarers were killed aboard convoy vessels in the war, but along with the Royal Navy, the convoys successfully imported enough supplies to allow an Allied victory.Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 74.5x49.5.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster commissioned by the C.E.M.A. (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts - later to become the Arts Council of Northern Ireland), it features a painting by the artist Rodrigo Moynihan (1910-1990) titled 'May - A Picnic' and it was originally intended to be hung "where war workers congregate". In 1940, during the Second World War, the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), was appointed to help promote and maintain British culture. Chaired by Lord De La Warr, President of the Board of Education, the Council was government-funded and after the war was renamed the Arts Council of Great Britain. The interest in the arts during World War II led to the first government subsidy of the arts in Britain with the founding of the Arts Council in 1946, championed by Jenny Lee. Moynihan was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, in 1910, to Herbert James Moynihan, a fruit broker, and Maria (née de la Puerta). His Anglo-Spanish family moved to London in 1918 and then to Wisconsin. A winter in Rome 1927–1928 inspired him to devote himself to art, and in 1928 he started studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In the 1930s he gained a reputation as a pioneer of abstract painting in England as a member of the Objective Abstraction movement.[4][5] Moynihan was later attracted to social realism and became associated from 1937 with the Euston Road School. War artist Moynihan served in the British Army from 1940 to 1943, first in the Royal Artillery and then doing camouflage work. Following an injury, he was given a full-time salaried commission by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC, having previously completed a number of short-term contracts for the Committee. He completed a number of portraits of ATS and senior, male, military figures for this contract and also for subsequent shorter WAAC contracts. Moynihan was appointed an Associate Member of the Royal Academy in 1944. After the war, he was professor of painting at the Royal College of Art 1948–1957, and was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1954. At this period, he was in demand for official portraits, and executed commissions of amongst others Princess Elizabeth (1946) and Prime Minister Clement Attlee (1947). He changed direction from 1957, resigning from the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy and returning to abstraction, working outside England in Europe and North America. From 1971 onwards he was inspired to return to figurative painting in the form of large-scale studio still-lives, unordered, unarranged and apparently random. One of these such paintings was, The shelf, objects and shadows - front view (1982–83). This return to figuration also drew him to move back towards portraiture – with portraits of friends leading to renewed commissions by the end of the 1970s. Notable portraits of this period include Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1983–85; National Portrait Gallery, London) and Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1984; National Portrait Gallery). Year of printing: 1943, country of printing: UK, designer: Rodrigo Moynihan, dimensions (cm): 76x101.5. Good condition, creases and minor tears in margins.

Original antique World War One propaganda poster published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee: Women of Britain say - "Go!" Iconic design featuring two ladies and a young boy looking out of an open window as soldiers in uniform march past for the front, the text above in stylised white letters. This poster calls on the patriotism of women to encourage and ensure their men join in the fight for freedom for King and Country, which is also reflected in the messages of other propaganda posters of the period, such as Kitchener's Your Country Needs You and Lumley's Daddy What Did You Do In The Great War. Printed by Hill Siffken & Co. (L.P.A. Ltd.), Grafton Works, London. Very good condition, folds, creases, minor browning and tears on margins. Year of printing: 1915, country of printing: UK, designer: E V Kealey, dimensions (cm): 75.5x50.5.

Original antique World War One propaganda poster: Everyone Should Do His Bit - Enlist Now featuring an image of young boy in uniform enrolling in the army as the drummer boy, his right foot on a drum standing in front of a wall covered with posters encouraging men and boys to enrol in the army "Come along boys" "Why aren't you in khaki?" with the text above and below in stylised white letters. Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London. Printed Roberts & Leete, Ltd., London. Good condition, restored folds and small tears, water stains on top and bottom margin, backed on linen.Year of printing: 1915, country of printing: UK, designer: Baron Low, dimensions (cm): 74.5x49.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster commissioned by the C.E.M.A. (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts - later to become the Arts Council of Northern Ireland), it features a painting by the artist Claude Rogers (1907-1979) titled 'June - A Band in the Park' and it was originally intended to be hung "where war workers congregate". In 1940, during the Second World War, the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), was appointed to help promote and maintain British culture. Chaired by Lord De La Warr, President of the Board of Education, the Council was government-funded and after the war was renamed the Arts Council of Great Britain. The interest in the arts during World War II led to the first government subsidy of the arts in Britain with the founding of the Arts Council in 1946, championed by Jenny Lee. Rogers was born in London but spent his childhood in Buenos Aires. He attended the Slade School of Art between 1925 and 1929, where he won a scholarship to study in Paris throughout 1930. He returned to Britain in 1931 and lived in the Norwegian Seamen's Mission building in Gravesend. He joined the London Artists' Association in 1931 and had his first exhibition with them in 1933. Rogers obtained a teaching appointment in 1935 at Raynes Park in London. In 1937 he married Elsie Few, a fellow artist. Rogers was one of the original members of the, short-lived but highly influential, Euston Road School in 1937. He taught at their original premises in Fitzroy Street and, from February 1938, at the Euston Road location that gave the group its name. Also, in 1938 he became a member of the London Group and held a solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1940. Membership of the New English Art Club followed in 1943. During the Second World War Rogers served in the Royal Engineers until he was injured in 1943. He continued to paint and received a commission from the War Artists' Advisory Committee in May 1942 for a picture. He also painted Janet Vaughan in her role as principal of Somerville College, Oxford. After the war Rogers, and other former members of the Euston Road school, taught at the Camberwell School of Art. Two exhibitions resulted, The Euston Road School and others in May 1948 and a group retrospective which the Arts Council toured in 1948 and 1949. Rodgers worked at Camberwell until 1950 and then taught at the Slade until 1963, when he became the Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading, a post he held until 1972. Rogers had been the President of the London Group between 1952 and 1955. From 1956 onwards Rogers and his wife owned a property at Somerton in Suffolk and they both painted landscapes in the area. In 1959 Rogers was appointed OBE. Works by Claude Rogers are held in the collections of the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Trust, the Arts Council Collection and in the UK Government art collection. A major retrospective of Roger's work was held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1973 and another at the Ben Uri Gallery during 1992 and 1993. A joint Rogers and Few exhibition was held in 2002 at the Belgrave Gallery.Year of printing: 1943, country of printing: UK, designer: Claude Rogers, dimensions (cm): 101.5x76. Good condition, small creases and minor tears in margins.

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster featuring an illustration depicting the Battle of Port Arthur. The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: ????? Hepburn: Ryojunk? Kaisen) of 8–9 February 1904 marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. It began with a surprise night attack by a squadron of Japanese destroyers on the neutral Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur, Manchuria, and continued with an engagement the following morning; further skirmishing off Port Arthur would continue until May 1904. The attack ended inconclusively, though the war resulted in a decisive Japanese victory. The Russo-Japanese War was fought during 1904–1905 between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.[4] The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around Korea, Japan and the Yellow Sea.Year of printing: 1904, country of printing: Russia, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 41.5x58.5. Fair condition, paper losses and creases, tears repaired with water soluble brown paper on reverse.

Original vintage WWI propaganda poster published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in London: Are You in this? Designed by Sir Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scout movement after his return from service in the Boer War, the poster features a coloured drawing showing various character taking part in the war effort: a soldier in khaki carrying a rifle; a boy scout carrying a box and note; a sailor in blue manning a large gun; a worker bearing a sledge hammer and a women working in on rows of bullets on a table; on the right side, an idle-looking man stands in a suit, hands in pockets, smoking a cigarette, with the injunction of the poster addressed to him. Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., London Year of printing: 1915, country of printing: UK, designer: Sir Baden-Powell, dimensions (cm): 76x49.5. Fair condition, foxing and staining, watermarks, repaired tears, backed on linen.

Original vintage propaganda poster published by the Organisation of Solidarity with the People of Asia Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL), an organisation founded in Havana Cuba in 1966 as a political movement to fight imperialism and defend human rights, producing revolutionary posters in Spanish, English, French and Arabic that were stapled into their Tricontinental magazine and sent to subscribers around the world. Dynamic design by the graphic designer Morante (Rafael Morante Boyerizo; b 1931) with the OSPAAAL logo and text above - Power to the People George - in honour of the African-American activist and Black Panther Party and Soledad Brothers member George Lester Jackson (1941-1971) who was shot dead by guards at San Quentin Prison following an unsuccessful escape attempt, featuring a black and white silhouette of the dying man with his blood running down in the red, white and blue colours of the American flag from three gun shot wounds against a white background. Horizontal. Good condition, faint yellowing in margins, faint waving in left and right margins, creases in bottom margin. Year of printing: 1971, country of printing: Cuba, designer: Morante, dimensions (cm): 51x73.

Original vintage rare propaganda poster for an Allied Aviation Evening at the Palais de Chaillot - Nuit Interalliee de l'Aviation on 11 May 1946. Fantastic Art Deco image of two pilots in combat and formal uniform with airplanes flying in the starry sky in the background. Printed by Monegasque printing house in Monte Carlo, designed by Jean Luc from Creation Edition, Paris. Good condition, fold lines.Year of printing: 1946, country of printing: France, designer: Jean Luc, dimensions (cm): 40x30.

Original vintage propaganda poster featuring a color photograph of three figures - two men and a woman - standing in front of urinals as if peeing. The wall behind the figures has red and black writing showing support for women's rights and women's liberation. Published by Plymouth Square Center - Conshohocken, PA. Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the United States in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades. It quickly spread across the Western world, with an aim to increase equality for women by gaining more than just enfranchisement. Though it is widely accepted that the movement lasted from the 1960s into the early 1980s, the exact years of the movement are more difficult to pinpoint and are often disputed. The movement is usually believed to have begun in 1963, when Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, and President John F. Kennedy's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women released its report on gender inequality. The movement grew with legal victories such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court ruling of 1965. In 1966 Friedan joined other women and men to found the National Organization for Women (NOW); Friedan would be named as the organization's first president.Year of printing: 1971, country of printing: USA, designer: Elizabeth Richter, dimensions (cm): 61x86 (Horizontal). Good condition, waving, minor tears in margins, creases.

Original vintage propaganda poster published by the Organisation of Solidarity with the People of Asia Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL), an organisation founded in Havana Cuba in 1966 as a political movement to fight imperialism and defend human rights, producing revolutionary posters in Spanish, English, French and Arabic that were stapled into their Tricontinental magazine and sent to subscribers around the world. Dynamic design with the text "Libano: United We Shall Win!" featuring a group of soldiers standing behind barricades and pointing their guns and weapons towards a blue Star of David with a black and white image of a snake in its centre to symbolise Israel as the enemy of the Lebanese and Arabic people, the OSPAAAL logo and text below in red letters. Very good condition, faint foxing in margins. Year of printing: 1980, country of printing: Cuba, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 74.5x43.

Original vintage Spanish Civil War propaganda poster issued by the Flangists - Flechar... al la Espana Grande! / Arrows for a Greater Spain! - featuring a graphic illustration of a soldier holding a rifle gun over his shoulder against a blue background, the image repeated to give the effect of motion in a blur, with the Spanish Falnge yoke and five arrow emblem in red on his shirt and in the top left corner, the stylised lightening text in red below. Falangism / falangismo was the political ideology of the Falange Espanola de las JONS (1937-1977) and of the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (and affiliates in other countries) which, under the leadership of the military dictator General Francisco Franco (1892-1975; leader 1939-1975), became the only legal party in Francoist Spain. Excellent condition.Year of printing: 1930s, country of printing: Spain, designer: Maciar, dimensions (cm): 31x19.5.

Original vintage Portuguese propaganda poster promoting the election of General Carmona, for the continuing progress of the Portuguese nation (Votai para continuidade do progresso da Nacao no General Carmona). Antonio Oscar Fragoso Carmona, BTO, ComC, GCA, ComSE, (24 November 1869 – 18 April 1951) was a Portuguese Army officer and politician who served as the 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (1926–1951). Prior to those posts he served as Minister of War in 1923. Carmona was a republican and a freemason, and was a quick adherent to the proclamation of the Portuguese First Republic on 5 October 1910. He was, however, never a sympathizer of the democratic form of government and – as he would later confess in an interview to Antonio Ferro – he only voted for the first time at the National Plebiscite of 1933. During the First Republic, he briefly served as War Minister in the government of António Ginestal Machado in 1923. Unlike the popular marshal Gomes da Costa, Carmona had not seen action in World War I.Year of printing: 1930s, country of printing: Portugal, designer: Martins Barata, dimensions (cm): 121x88.5. Fair condition, small paper losses, foxing, tears in margins.

Original vintage World War Two poster by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965), one of the posters from the popular Careless Talk Costs Lives wartime propaganda series issued by the Ministry of Information: 'Strictly between you & me...' featuring an illustration of two soldiers chatting against a wall with an image of Hitler listening from the window above them. Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE (17 December 1887 – 11 June 1965), known by the pen name Fougasse, was a British cartoonist best known for his work in Punch magazine (of which he served as editor from 1949 to 1953) and his World War II warning propaganda posters. He also designed many posters for the London Underground.Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: Fougasse, dimensions (cm): 31.5x20.5. Fair condition, stained, small tears in margins, backed on board as issued, hanging string in top margin.

Original vintage propaganda poster by Picasso for an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Spanish artitsts in homage to Spanish poet Antonio Machado, held at the Maison de la Pensee Francaise in Paris in February 1955: Hommage des Artistes Espagnols au Poete Antonio Machado. Great portrait of Antonio Machado by the notable Spanish artist and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Lithograph poster printed in Paris by Imp. Moderne du Lion. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.Year of printing: 1955, country of printing: France, designer: Pablo Picasso, dimensions (cm): 65x50. Very good condition, faint yellowing in margins and minor tear in right margin.

Original vintage French propaganda poster published by the Association France South Vietnam to denounce the Communist attacks in Vietnam: Vietnam Stop the red bloodbath / Viet Nam Arretez le massacre rouge - Association France Vietnam Du Sud. Dynamic cartoon style illustration showing a young Vietnamese man lying in a pool of blood with a rifle bayonet in his chest, the gun bearing a red flag with a yellow star and the text above in red and black letters. The red flag with a golden star was designed in 1940 and used in the uprising against the French; the revolutionary flag was then used by North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and is now the national flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The 1955-1975 Vietnam War took place during the Cold War era (1947-1991) between North Vietnam (supported by the Soviet Union and other communist allies), and South Vietnam (supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies), leading to the country's reunification to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Printed in France by Imprimerie Speciale, Paris. Good condition, folds, pinhole, faint creases, small tears on top margin. Year of printing: 1960s, country of printing: France, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 59x39.5.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster published in the Nazi occupied France by the collaborationist Vichy regime - Thanks to the English.. Our Way of the Cross (the French text reads: 'Grâce aux Anglais... Notre chemin de croix'). The poster's artwork by SPK refers to France's ancient historical conflicts with England: a French soldier carries a large cross like Christ with, in the background, Joan of Arc on a bonfire and the Emperor Napoleon 1st facing a rising sun. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: France, designer: SPK, dimensions (cm): 158x120 for each part. Poor condition, folded, tears and paper losses, staining. Poster in four parts with the two bottom parts missing.

Original vintage propaganda poster for the Canadian's Army: Canada's New Army needs men like you. This poster was part of a series of Canadian recruitment posters used during World War 2 to recruit young men to join the Army at a time when there wasn’t a huge amount of support for Canada entering the war. Designed by Eric Aldwinckle, it depicts a young man on a motorbike living a life of adventure on the front line with the background image showing a medieval knight in full armor to sell the dream of adventure to young men. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: Canada, designer: Eric Aldwinckle,, dimensions (cm): 45x30. Fair condition, faint cracks and foxing, bottom margin trimmed, backed on board.

Set of three posters. 1. Original vintage propaganda poster – The Bureau Of Current Affairs – Map Review No. 2, 1946. Printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd., London. Contents: Map of changes in Europe, India.Year of printing: 1946, country of printing: UK, designer: map design by McKerrow, dimensions (cm): 76.5x101.5.; 2. Original vintage propaganda poster – The Bureau Of Current Affairs – Map Review No. 1, 1946. Printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd., London. Contents: Greece, Western Germany, Famine.Year of printing: 1946, country of printing: UK, designer: map design by McKerrow, dimensions (cm): 76.5x101.5.; 3. Original vintage propaganda poster – The Bureau Of Current Affairs – Map Review No. 4, 1946. Printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd., London. Contents: Gold, India, Islands of the Pacific, merchant Navy.Year of printing: 1946, country of printing: UK, designer: map design by McKerrow, dimensions (cm): 76.5x101.5. Double-sided. Fair condition, folded as issues, foxing, tears in margins and on fold lines.

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster featuring a dynamic image of a worker holding a large hammer and sickle in front of a red flag with the shape in white of Vladimir Lenin on it, the text in red letters below. Good condition, fold marks. he Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union. The CPSU was the sole governing party of the Soviet Union until 1990, when the Congress of People's Deputies modified Article 6 of the most recent 1977 Soviet constitution, which had granted the CPSU a monopoly over the political system. The party was founded in 1912 by the Bolsheviks, a majority faction detached from the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in the October Revolution of 1917. After 74 years, it was dissolved on 29 August 1991 on Soviet territory, soon after a failed coup d'état by hard-line CPSU leaders against Soviet president and party general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and was completely outlawed three months later on 6 November 1991 in Russian territory.Year of printing: 1970, country of printing: Russia, designer: I Toidze, dimensions (cm): 92x58.

Original vintage World War Two black and white printer's proof for a propaganda poster issued by The Tilling Group of Omnibus Companies and designed by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965): Take great care of your Tyre - 'If 90% of the world's rubber is in enemy hands, + the remaining 10% is needed for the Forces, what's going to happen when your present tyres wear out?'. Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE (17 December 1887 – 11 June 1965), known by the pen name Fougasse, was a British cartoonist best known for his work in Punch magazine (of which he served as editor from 1949 to 1953) and his World War II warning propaganda posters. He also designed many posters for the London Underground.Year of printing: 1940, country of printing: UK, designer: Fougasse, dimensions (cm): 37.5x26.5. Good condition, folds, faint staining and creases in margins.

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster featuring an illustration of a young man with his head trapped between two beams and a rope positioned around his head to resemble a money dollar sign with the text below. One of a set of illustrations by Viktor Koretsky (1909-1998), The Grin of the Yellow Devil - Lawful Lawlessness, published by Izdatel'stvo Plakat and printed in Moscow by Izdatel'stvo Zoria. Excellent condition, small crease on margin.Year of printing: 1978, country of printing: Russia , designer: Viktor Koretsky, dimensions (cm): 43x28.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster published by the collaborationist Vichy regime in Nazi occupied France and painting Winston Churchill and the British as the enemies of France following the events at Dakar-Mers El-Kebir. The Attack on Mers-el-Kébir, part of Operation Catapult and also known as the Battle of Mers-el-Kébir, was a British Navy bombardment of the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir on the coast of what was then French Algeria on 3 July 1940. It was controversially ordered by Winston Churchill in order to stop the Nazi to get access to the French Naval assets and forces. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: France, designer: SPK, dimensions (cm): 158x118. Poor condition, folded, tears and paper losses, staining.

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster titled 'A message to the Betrayed Brothers in the White Army Trenches'. It shows a man fighting a hammer against a monstruous snake representing the Tsar, the Priest and the Rich. The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the two Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favouring political monarchism, economic capitalism and alternative forms of socialism, each with democratic and anti-democratic variants. In addition, rival militant socialists and non-ideological Green armies fought against both the Bolsheviks and the Whites. Eight foreign nations intervened against the Red Army, notably the former Allied military forces from the World War and the pro-German armies. The Red Army eventually defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in Ukraine and the army led by Admiral Alexander Kolchak to the east in Siberia in 1919. The remains of the White forces commanded by Pyotr Wrangel were beaten in Crimea and evacuated in late 1920. Lesser battles of the war continued on the periphery for two more years, and minor skirmishes with the remnants of the White forces in the Far East continued well into 1923. The war ended in 1923 in the sense that Bolshevik communist control of the newly formed Soviet Union was now assured, although armed national resistance in Central Asia was not completely crushed until 1934. There were an estimated 7,000,000–12,000,000 casualties during the war, mostly civilians.Year of printing: 1918, country of printing: Russia, designer: Aleksandr Petrovich Apsit, dimensions (cm): 106.5x71. Good condition, losses and repaired tears, creases.

Set of two identical original vintage World War Two propaganda poster published in English and Italian by the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory featuring a proclamation (Proclamation No. 1) by H.R. Alexander, General Officer Commanding the Allied Forces and Military Governor, to the attention of the Italian people to set the rules of the occupation by the Allied forces. Year of printing: 1943, country of printing: Italy, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 70x49. Fair condition, folded as issued, tears and creases, minor loss.

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster featuring an illustration of a desperate crying mother looking out to the viewer whilst holding up her baby with the text below: Save them from turture, save them from death. One of a set of illustrations by Viktor Koretsky (1909-1998), The Grin of the Yellow Devil - Release from Attraction to Save from Death, published by Izdatel'stvo Plakat and printed in Moscow by Izdatel'stvo Zoria. Very good condition, light browning on margin, light foxing. Year of printing: 1978, country of printing: Russia , designer: Viktor Koretsky, dimensions (cm): 43x28.

Original antique World War One propaganda poster - Joan of Arc Saved France Save your Country Buy War Savings Stamps WSS issued by the United States Government United States Treasury Department - featuring a dynamic illustration by William Haskell Coffin (1878-1941) depicting a smiling Joan of Arc wearing a metal suit of armour and holding up a sword triumphantly with her peaceful face lit up by a white light against the blue background. Good condition, restored paper loss, restored crease, backed on linen.Year of printing: 1918, country of printing: USA, designer: William Haskell Coffin , dimensions (cm): 76x51.

Original vintage Chinese propaganda poster "Walk the road of Dazhai" featuring a smiling Chinese worker in the foreground breaking rocks with a hammer and chisel while other workers build a rice terrace stone wall on the hill above farming fields and water behind him, the slogan below in red and white letters. Mao Zedong set up the Dazhai community as a model area of agriculture during the Cultural Revolution period (1960-70s). Good condition, small tears and creases on margins. Year of printing: 1965, country of printing: China, designer: Qian Daxin, dimensions (cm): 107x76.5.

Original vintage election propaganda poster for the 1975 European Union Membership Referendum held in the United Kingdom featuring the text in red and blue against the white background with an image of a red, white and blue Union Jack British Flag on an ostrich with its head buried in the sand - Europe Support your Local Continent Vote Yes. This European Communities Membership Referendum (aka the Referendum on the European Community or Common Market / Common Market Referendum / EEC Membership Referendum) was held on 5 June 1975 under the provisions of the Referendum Act 1975 by the Labour government led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson (1916-1995; PM 1974-1976) to gauge support from the people for the country's continued membership of the European Communities (EC European Community / Common Market), which the country entered on 1 January 1973 under the Conservative government led by the Prime Minister Edward Heath (1916-2005; PM 1970-1974); Labour's manifesto during the October 1974 General Election promised a people's vote to decide "through the ballot box" whether to remain in the EC, resulting in 67.23% Yes votes to remain in Europe and 32.77% No votes to leave Europe. Good condition, staining and folds on margins. Year of printing: 1975, country of printing: UK, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 44.5x28.5.

Original vintage World War One propaganda poster: Le Coeur de l'Amerique (The Heart of America). On the home front and in the Armies, no sufferings is ignored by the American Red Cross. Poster designed by Eduardo Benito Garcia showing a red cross nurses and red cross army members attending an injured soldier. Eduardo Benito Garcia (1891-1981), aka Benito, was a Spanish fashion illustrator and painter, noted for his vogue covers of the 1920s and 1930s. Published in France by Libraire Grasset, Paris in an edition of 400. Eduardo Benito was a Spanish fashion illustrator and painter, noted for his Vogue covers of the 1920s and 1930s. He studied at the Mignon studio, and later trained under Daniel Vierge. In 1912 he moved to Paris, he later spent 15 years painting Vogue covers. Among Benito's subjects as a portrait painter were Alfonso XIII of Spain, Paul Poiret, and the Chinese Royal family. Also in 1912, he won a scholarship to study at L’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Year of printing: 1918, country of printing: France, designer: Eduardo Benito Garcia, dimensions (cm): 37x47 (Horizontal). Fair condition, faint staining, paper losses, creases and tears in the margins.

Original vintage war propaganda poster printed in Russia during the First World War showing a caricature showing a Russian soldier taking several Austrian soldiers captive. World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It is also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the resulting 1918 influenza pandemic caused another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide.Year of printing: 1914, country of printing: Russia, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 38.5x52.5. Good condition, minor tears in margins, folds and creases.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster showing the flags of the Allied Countries and a handsake, set against a green background. The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies promoted the alliance as a means to control German, Japanese and Italian aggression. At the start of the war on 1 September 1939, the Allies consisted of France, Poland and the United Kingdom, as well as their dependent states, such as British India. Within days they were joined by the independent Dominions of the British Commonwealth: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. After the start of the German invasion of North Europe until the Balkan Campaign, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, and Yugoslavia joined the Allies. After first having cooperated with Germany in invading Poland whilst remaining neutral in the Allied-Axis conflict, the Soviet Union perforce joined the Allies in June 1941 after being invaded by Germany. The United States provided war materiel and money all along, and officially joined in December 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. China had already been in a prolonged war with Japan since the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, but officially joined the Allies in 1941. The alliance was formalised by the Declaration by United Nations, from 1 January 1942. However, the name "United Nations" was rarely used to describe the Allies during the war. The leaders of the "Big Three"—the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States—controlled Allied strategy; relations between the United Kingdom and the United States were especially close. The Big Three together with China were referred as a "trusteeship of the powerful", then were recognized as the Allied "Big Four" in the Declaration by United Nations and later as the "Four Policemen" of the United Nations. After the war ended, the Allied nations became the basis of the modern United Nations.Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: USA, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 70.5x55. Fair condition, folded as issued,small tears and creases.

Original antique World War One propaganda poster encouraging men to enlist in the army featuring an image of Lord Kitchener in uniform on the left with a quote from his speech at Guildhall on 9 July 1915 in yellow text against a black background on the right: "Lord Kitchener Says: - ‘Men, Materials & Money are the immediate necessities… Does the call of duty find no response in you until reinforced – Let us say rather superseded – By the call of compulsion?’ - Enlist To-Day." Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Year of printing: 1915, country of printing: UK, designer: Bassano, dimensions (cm): 101.5x126. Fair condition, folded as issued, small tears and paper losses on fold lines and in margins.

Original vintage propaganda poster for the publication Musee des Horreurs ("Gallery of Horrors") issue No.1, titled "Boule de Juif" (Jew's Ball). This poster features a drawing by Lenepveu (pseudonym) showing a caricature of Joseph Reinach as a monkey. At the time of the Alfred Dreyfus original trial, Reinach, an author and politician, attempted to secure a public hearing of the case, and later demandedits revision. Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was falsely accused of treason for selling military secrets to Germany and convicted of treason by a secret military commission, Dreyfus was stripped of his rank and imprisoned on Devils' Island. It was only after the affair had dragged on for a dozen years that Dreyfus was finally cleared of all charges by the court of appeals. French society was deeply divided by the Dreyfus case and hostile rhetoric led to widespread anti-Semitic expression in the popular press. This series of intensely provocative color lithographs which showed figures in the pro-Dreyfus camp as disgusting half-animal creatures, was only one example of the virulent reaction to the Dreyfus Affair. The publication of Musee des Horreurs was halted by the police after 51 numbers had been published.Year of printing: 1899, country of printing: France, designer: V. Lenepveu (pseudonym), dimensions (cm): 65.5x50. Poor condition, creases and tears, large tear with tape residue, reinforced on reverse with water soluble tape.

Original vintage propaganda poster for a Picasso exhibition of drawings at the Sala Gaspar - Dibujos de Picasso - in Barcelona in April 1961, an official representative of the artist in Spain. Lithograph poster, edition size: 500 copies. Fantastic colour sketch by the notable Spanish artist and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) showing what could look like a face, with the text above and below in Picasso's handwriting. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.Year of printing: 1961, country of printing: Spain, designer: Pablo Picasso, dimensions (cm): 70x50. Very good condition, writing in pencil on bottom left corner.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster: Button your lip! Loose talk can cost lives. Colourful illustration against a red background featuring a US army officer in uniform with his lips buttoned up, the text above in stylised white letters and below in black letters over yellow strips. Distributed in the interest of National Defense, and as a means of obtaining funds for Ambulances wherever needed. British and American Ambulances Corps, Inc., New York City. Litho in the U.S.A. Good condition, stains, small tears, minor loss and creases on margins.Year of printing: 1942, country of printing: USA, designer: O. Soglow, dimensions (cm): 50.5x35.5.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - More American workers were killed and wounded in industrial accidents last year than all the casualties from bombs in Britain in two years of war Follow Safety Rules! Dynamic design featuring various worker caps, hard hats and helmets with construction and factory tools including a spade, pick axe, saw, wrench, spanner and welding mask, on rows of small white crosses on graves reminiscent of the Arlington National Cemetery with the text below. The safety of workers and on-going need for production on the Home Front during WWII was an important theme of public service announcements. Published by the War Production Board Washington DC. Good condition, restored folds, restored creases, restored tears, backed on linen.Year of printing: 1942, country of printing: USA, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 101x73.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster: Draughts Steal Fuel Required for Production. Great design showing the draught in the shape of a human arm blowing in through an open door with the hand stealing a lump of coal, a note on the door "Please shut this door" and a label on the coal marked "Required for Production" with the title text along the centre in stylised black and white letters. Issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power. Printed for Her Majesty Stationery Office by Fosh & Cross Ltd., London. Good condition, repaired folds, pinholes, creases on margins.Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: Cromwell Cooke, dimensions (cm): 75.5x50.

Set of 4 identical propaganda posters issued in Nazi iccupied France Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster published by the collaborationist Vichy regime in France to designate the British as the enemies of France: Francais, Do not forget that Fair condition, cracks and creases.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster: Watch Your Talk For His Sake - Never mention arrivals, sailings, cargoes, or destinations to anybody. Dynamic black and white image of a sailor wearing waterproof clothing standing in the crow's nest of a ship and looking out through binoculars with the text in red and black letters below. Excellent condition. During the Second World War, German U-boats sank nearly 14.7 million tons of Allied shipping, which amounted to 2,828 ships (around two thirds of the total allied tonnage lost). The United Kingdom alone suffered the loss of 11.7 million tons, which was 54% of the total Merchant Navy fleet at the outbreak of the Second World War. 32,000 merchant seafarers were killed aboard convoy vessels in the war, but along with the Royal Navy, the convoys successfully imported enough supplies to allow an Allied victory. The Royal Navy suffered heavy losses in the first two years of the war, including the carriers Courageous, Glorious and Ark Royal, the battleships Royal Oak and Barham and the battlecruiser Hood in the European Theatre, and the carrier Hermes, the battleship Prince of Wales, the battlecruiser Repulse and the heavy cruisers Exeter, Dorsetshire and Cornwall in the Asian Theatre. Of the 1,418 men aboard Hood, only three survived its sinking. Over 3,000 people were lost when the converted troopship Lancastria was sunk in June 1940, the greatest maritime disaster in Britain's history. There were however also successes against enemy surface ships, as in the battles of the River Plate in 1939, Narvik in 1940 and Cape Matapan in 1941, and the sinking of the German capital ships Bismarck in 1941 and Scharnhorst in 1943Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 51x34.

Original vintage health propaganda poster - For Health's Sake Keep Them Clean Food poisoning germs are spread by things not properly washed up - featuring a minimalist design showing various kitchen tools and appliances including a whisk, carving fork, cleaning brush and a pan with the bold text against a white background and Keep The Clean against a deep pink block in the centre. Produced for The Ministry of Health by the Central Office of Information. The UK government department of the Ministry of Health (1919-1968) led to the formation of the NHS National Health Service in 1948; the Central Office of Information (COI; 1946-2011) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency. Excellent condition.Year of printing: 1950s, country of printing: UK , designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 37.5x24.5 .

Original vintage World War One propaganda poster encouraging men to enlist in the army - Fight for Freedom with the Strength of Free Men - featuring the text in large stylised white letters against a green background. Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London. Poster no. 48 Printed by Roberts & Leete Ltd., London. Horizontal. Good condition, folded as issued, faint creases and minor tears on margins.Year of printing: 1910s, country of printing: UK, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 24x75.5.

Original vintage Soviet Anti-Imperialist propaganda poster titled: The Tsar, the Priest and the Rich Man on the Shoulders of the Labouring People (Tsar, Pop i Bogach). This poster shows the Tsar and the Priest being carried by the miserable and dying labouring people with the rich man controlling the masses with his whip. This poster is supposed to represent how things were like for Russia before the October Revolution. Communist propaganda in the Soviet Union was extensively based on the Marxist–Leninist ideology to promote the Communist Party line. In the Stalin era, it penetrated even social and natural sciences giving rise to various pseudo-scientific theories such as Lysenkoism, whereas fields of real knowledge, as genetics, cybernetics and comparative linguistics were condemned and forbidden as "bourgeois pseudoscience". Propaganda was one of the many ways the Soviet Union tried to control its citizens. The main Soviet Union censorship body, Glavlit, was employed not only to eliminate any undesirable printed materials, but also "to ensure that the correct ideological spin was put on every published item". In the Stalin era, deviation from the dictates of official propaganda was punished by execution and labor camps. In the post-Stalin era, these punitive measures were replaced by punitive psychiatry, prison, denial of work and loss of citizenship. "Today a man only talks freely to his wife – at night, with the blankets pulled over his head", said writer Isaac Babel privately to a trusted friend. Alexander Petrovich Apsit ( Latvian Aleksandrs Aps?tis, Russian ????????? ???????? ????? , born March 25, 1880 in Riga , † September 19, 1943 in Ludwigslust ) was a Latvian artist. Apsit was born into a Rigenser worker family, who moved to Saint Petersburg in 1894 . From 1898 to 1899 he attended the drawing school and was a student in the studio of Lew Dmitriew-Kawkaski. From 1900 to 1910 Apsit was a member of the Moscow art circle "Sreda" (Wednesday). During this time he worked for various Petersburg magazines and designed war posters. After the October Revolution Apsit was commissioned by the Soviet State Publishing House to design revolutionary posters, having gained experience in political propaganda. In the fall of 1919, when General Yudenich's troops had moved up to 30 km to Petrograd, the poster "Protecting Petrograd with the Breast (Using Their Own Life)" was created. The posters designed by Apsit were highly detailed, finely graduated drawings with many figures accompanied by explanatory texts. They were under the influence of the Lubok , the Russian Folkpicture. His poster "A Year of Proletarian Dictatorship" is considered a milestone in Soviet poster history. Designed for the first anniversary of the October Revolution, it shows the most important elements of the visual language of the Revolution poster: in the foreground a farmer with a red flag and scythe and a blacksmith with a hammer, the emblems of fallen capitalismBoth of them are standing guard in front of a field of simple, flag-bearing farm laborers, in the background an industrialized city and a rising sun. Alexander Apsit developed on his posters the hammer, the sickle and the red star, the symbols of the Soviet communist era. He is considered the founder of Soviet poster art. In 1919, during the advance of General Denikin , Apsit left Moscow. After the Civil War, he worked in Latvia as a book illustrator. In addition, he designed advertising posters and greetings cards as well as the wrapping paper of chocolates and confectionery of the company Vilhelms ?uze. In 1939, Alexander Apsit moved to Germany, where he died in 1943.Year of printing: 1918, country of printing: Russia, designer: Aleksandr Petrovich Apsit, dimensions (cm): 106.5x73.5. Good condition, losses and repaired tears, creases.

Set of 4 identical propaganda posters issued in Nazi iccupied France Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster published by the collaborationist Vichy regime in France to designate the British as the enemies of France: Francais, Do not forget that if Britain built during the last two hundred years an Empire over the world, its only at the expense of our country (Original text reads: 'Français N’oubliez pas que si l’Angleterre s’est créé depuis deux cent ans un Empire sur le monde, c’est uniquement au détriment de notre pays'). The poster lists a number of dates when Britain supposedly took advantage of France starting in 1704 British takeover of Gibraltar, listing Canada and Bahamas and finishing with victories in Africa in WWII. Year of printing: 1942, country of printing: France, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 119.5x79.5. All posters is poor condition, folds and stains, tears and small paper losses in margins.

Original vintage anti-communism political propaganda poster issued by Paix et Liberte (Peace and Liberty; 1951-1956), a Cold War era French political party, featuring a satirical cartoon style illustration entitled Jo Jo the dove / Jo-Jo-La Columbe depicting a caricature of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin (as Jo-Jo) wearing a shirt with a red star on it, his open military uniform jacket showing a red hammer and sickle tattoo on his arm, looking around the corner of an alleyway holding up a sign marked Paix to proclaim peace in one hand while simultaneously holding a dove tied on a string and a spiked club in his other hand, the Paix et Liberte 176 rue de l'Universite Paris address below. Very good condition, restored tears and small paper loss in margin. In response to the Stockholm Appeal, Jean-Paul David, then Radical Socialist Party deputy mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie and later Secretary General of the Rally of Republican Lefts, created Paix et Liberté in 1950, to counter the activities of the French Communist Party. Its propaganda efforts received substantial financial backing from the United States. Paix et Liberté was one of the organizations of the "anti-Communist apparatus" booming during the Cold War. The organization had the support of René Pleven, President of the Council and many other politicians of the time. But the experience stopped in 1955 because of a thaw in international relations.Year of printing: 1951, country of printing: France, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 77.5x56.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster: Young America Wants To Help operated under the auspices of The British War Relief Society Inc. - US State Department license 208. Colourful artwork depicting young children carrying aid boxes under an American flag on a pier in the foreground with St. Paul's Cathedral and the city of London being bombed and engulfed in flames and dark smoke across the Atlantic Ocean on the horizon, the text on the white border below in black letters. The British War Relief Society (1939-1945) was a humanitarian organisation based in America dealing with non-military aid packages donated by various charities and sent to the UK - Bundles for Britain - including medical, food, clothes and financial aid during the Second World War. Excellent condition, backed on board. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: USA, designer: F. T. Chapman, dimensions (cm): 50.5x35.5 .

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster for the Dutch Labour Service - Nederlandsche Arbeidsdienst. Colourful design featuring a stylised image of a strong bare chested worker holding a shovel on his shoulder and standing proudly in a field of wheat set against a deep blue sky above with the text below in white and blue letters. The Dutch Labour Service was at first a voluntary and later a compulsory work placement service for every unmarried Dutchman aged 17 to 23 in the Nazi occupied Netherlands during the Second World War. Publication allowed by the Reich Commissariat. Good condition, folds in top and right margins, creases and pinholes in corners. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: Netherlands, designer: Schell, dimensions (cm): 99.5x65 .

Original vintage British propaganda poster: Change over! Beware the blind spot... Dynamic design showing the white trail from planes crossing over each other in a blue sky with a red circle marking the blind spot of their dangerously close cross over point, the text above and below in coloured lettering over the clouds. Printed for Her Majesty Stationery Office by Proterprint Ltd. Very good condition, small tears on top margin, backed on linen.Year of printing: 1944, country of printing: UK, designer: Walker, dimensions (cm): 75x48.5.

Original vintage propaganda anti-drug smuggling poster published by the Department of the Treasury and Bureau of Customs featuring a great design depicting grey smoke swirling against the black background with the message: A few extra minutes clearing customs saves others from Narcotics in white text and the word Narcotics in stylised orange lettering. Good condition, restored creases, restored paper losses, tape marks, backed on linen.Year of printing: 1960s, country of printing: USA, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 57x44.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - MY Daddy is a Hero! And YOU? - issued in Great Britain for distribution in the USSR. Part of a series of WWII propaganda posters designed in the UK, printed in Russian and English. Black and white sketch of a young girl holding up an image in one hand of a man in uniform with a red star and decoration around the border, pointing her finger out towards the viewer. Very good condition, folds.Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 63.5x48.5.

Original vintage WWII Swiss propaganda poster published in Italian encouraging the Swiss people to help their follow countrymen who returned home during the war (Svizzeri aiutate I compatrioti rientrati dall'Estero). Great artwork by renowned Swiss painter Hans Falk (1918-2002) . Printed by J.C Müller, ZürichYear of printing: 1944, country of printing: Switzerland, designer: Hans Falk, dimensions (cm): 127.5x90. Very good condition, minor folds and creases.

Original vintage Russian propaganda poster showing the Prussian Artillery Regiment attacking the enemy in the midst of a battle. World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It is also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the resulting 1918 influenza pandemic caused another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide. The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between the Russian Empire and Romania on one side and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the German Empire on the other. It stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, involved most of Eastern Europe and stretched deep into Central Europe as well. The term contrasts with "Western Front", which was being fought in Belgium and France.Year of printing: 1914, country of printing: Russia, designer: Adolf Charlemagne, dimensions (cm): 40.5x57.5. Good condition, repaired tears and creases.

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster titled Citizens, preserve historical monuments by Russian artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Kupreyanov (1894–1933). The main feature of communist attitudes towards the arts and artists in the years 1918-1929 was relative freedom, with significant experimentation in several different styles in an effort to find a distinctive Soviet style of art. In many respects, the NEP period was a time of relative freedom and experimentation for the social and cultural life of the Soviet Union. The government tolerated a variety of trends in these fields, provided they were not overtly hostile to the regime. In art and literature, numerous schools, some traditional and others radically experimental, proliferated. Communist writers Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky were active during this time, but other authors, many of whose works were later repressed, published work lacking socialist political content. Film, as a means of influencing a largely illiterate society, received encouragement from the state; much of cinematographer Sergei Eisenstein's best work dates from this period. Education, under Commissar Anatoliy Lunacharskiy, entered a phase of experimentation based on progressive theories of learning. At the same time, the state expanded the primary and secondary school system, and introduced night schools for working adults. The quality of higher education was affected by admissions policies that preferred entrants from the proletarian class over those from bourgeois backgrounds, regardless of the applicants' qualifications.Year of printing: 1919, country of printing: Russia, designer: Nikolai Nikolaevich Kupreyanov, dimensions (cm): 75x51.5. Very good condition, faint folds and creases.

Original vintage propaganda poster - Long Live the Republic of China - featuring bold black Chinese lettering underneath the flag of the Republic of China flying against a cloudy blue sky. This national flag was adopted by China in 1928 under the Kuomintang KMT, and became the national flag of Taiwan in 1949; the red represents the Red Earth and the blue square represents the sky with the white sun and triangles that represent the rays of light in the centre. Published by the Military Commission Political Department. Good condition, restored tear, staining, handwritten letters at bottom of poster, backed on linen.Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: China, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 79x26.

Set of 3 printer's proof designs for advertising of a small poster leaflet. 1. Original vintage World War Two printer's proof for a propaganda poster issued by the Ministry of War Transport's Road Safety Campaign: Travel only when you must - Leisure is necessary in wartime, but there's a limit to the decency of joy-riding. Remember, please, that the bus Companies in addition to their normal task of carrying the public, are conveying millions to and from their war work. This black an white poster features a small illustration by Douglas showing a controller looking suspiciously on a man travelling to go to play golf. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: Douglas, dimensions (cm): 25.5x18 . 2. Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster issued by the Ministry of War Transport's Road Safety Campaign: Into Battle! Yes, into battle by Bus. The workers must be carried to the factories where the great battle of Production is being fought and the buses that in peacetime were at your service are now in the battle too. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 25x19.; 3. Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster issued by the Ministry of War Transport's Road Safety Campaign: 'Where you get off-and on - In built up areas buses now halt only at recognised stopping'. The poster explains that the rule was introduced to save fuel and rubber in time of war. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: C. B. Beardsworth, dimensions (cm): 25.5x27.5. 1. Good condition, staining and creases.; 2. Fair condition, staining and creases, pencil writing in top and bottom margins.; 3. Fair condition, small tears, staining and creases, pen writing in top margin. Poster made of two smaller posters vertically glued together.

Original vintage propaganda poster published by the Organisation of Solidarity with the People of Asia Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL), an organisation founded in Havana Cuba in 1966 as a political movement to fight imperialism and defend human rights, producing revolutionary posters in Spanish, English, French and Arabic that were stapled into their Tricontinental magazine and sent to subscribers around the world. Dynamic design against the IMF International Monetary Fund and its policy of foreign debts on third world countries depicting an impoverished man being crucified on a large green shaded dollar sign marked FMI IMF against a black background with the text below in yellow letters - Deuda Externa Foreign Debt Detta Exterieure - and the OSPAAAL logo above. The IMF was formed in 1945 "to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world" under the UN United Nations (not all members of the IMF are members of the UN); Cuba left the IMF in 1964 under the leadership of Fidel Castro (1926-2016). Good condition, folded as issued, scratches and marks, minor tears in right margins. Year of printing: 1983, country of printing: Cuba, designer: Rafael Enriquez, dimensions (cm): 69x48.

Original vintage propaganda poster published to promote the congressional campaign of candidate Phil Drath, who was a staunch anti-war supporter. Artists such as Joan Baez, Mimi Farino, The Grateful Dead, and Quick Silver Messenger Service performed. The event had two speakers: Ed Keating and Don Duncan. The poster was designed by renowned graphic duo Mouse Studios (Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley) who utilizes the iconic children's character Winnie the Pooh, and portray Pooh and Piglet walking towards the setting sun. Joan Chandos Baez (/ba?z/; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice. Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets other composers' work, having recorded songs by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant and Joe Henry. Baez's acclaimed songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She is also known for "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, gospel, and psychedelic rock; for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams; and for its devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads". "Their music", writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists". These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world". The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their May 8, 1977, performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012. The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.Year of printing: 1966, country of printing: USA, designer: Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley, dimensions (cm): 51x36. Fair condition, folds, tears and staining in margins.

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Dig For Victory - featuring a stylised illustration adapted from a prize winning design by Mary Tunbridge showing the back of a young child wearing a white sun hat, white shorts and white shirt, holding a spade in one hand and a hoe in his other hand, walking away from the viewer towards a blue background on dry and cracked ground, the text in bold black and red letters above and below. Issued by the Ministry of Agriculture at the outbreak of the Second World War, the Dig for Victory series was one of the most memorable campaigns and poster slogans encouraging Britain's home front to help the war effort that resulted in over a million tonnes of vegetables grown in gardens and allotments by 1943. Printed for Her Majesty Stationery Office by H. Manly & Son Ltd. Good condition, folded as issued, creases in margins. Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK, designer: Mary Tunbridge , dimensions (cm): 37.5x25.

Rare original vintage propaganda poster showing revolutionary troops in Moscow at Voskresenskay Square near Kremlin during February Revolution. The February Revolution, known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg), the then-capital of Russia, where long-standing discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing on 23 February Old Style (8 March New Style). Revolutionary activity lasted about eight days, involving mass demonstrations and violent armed clashes with police and gendarmes, the last loyal forces of the Russian monarchy. On 27 February O.S. (12 March N.S.) mutinous Russian Army forces sided with the revolutionaries. Three days later Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending Romanov dynastic rule and the Russian Empire. A Russian Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov replaced the Council of Ministers of Russia. The revolution appeared to break out without any real leadership or formal planning. Russia had been suffering from a number of economic and social problems, which compounded after the start of World War I in 1914. Disaffected soldiers from the city's garrison joined bread rioters, primarily women in bread lines, and industrial strikers on the streets. As more and more troops deserted, and with loyal troops away at the Front, the city fell into chaos, leading to the overthrow of the Tsar. In all, over 1,300 people were killed during the protests of February 1917. Voskresenskaya Square (Resurrection Square), after the other name of Iberian Gate, Resurrection Gate was renamed after the October Revolution in 1918. Revolution Square is located in the center of Moscow, in Tverskoy District, northwest of Red Square. The square has the shape of an arc running from the southwest to the north and is bounded by Manezhnaya Square to the southwest, Okhotny Ryad to the north, and the buildings separating it from Nikolskaya Street to the south and to the east. It is one of the Central Squares of Moscow. The continuation of the Revolution Square north behind Okhotny Ryad is Teatralnaya Square.Year of printing: 1917, country of printing: Russia, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 62.5x84.5. Very good condition, minor creases and folds in margins.

Original vintage British WWII propaganda poster issued by the Ministry of Health: Will you give a helping hand too? Your help is wanted. See your local billeting officer now! Printed for Her Majesty Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd. The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to protect people, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk. Operation Pied Piper, which began on 1 September 1939, officially relocated more than 3.5 million people. There were further waves of official evacuation and re-evacuation from the south and east coasts in June 1940, when a seaborne invasion was expected, and from affected cities after the Blitz began in September 1940. There were also official evacuations from the UK to other parts of the British Empire, and many non-official evacuations within and from the UK. Other mass movements of civilians included British citizens arriving from the Channel Islands, and displaced people arriving from continental Europe. The Government Evacuation Scheme was developed during summer 1938 by the Anderson Committee and implemented by the Ministry of Health. The country was divided into zones, classified as either "evacuation", "neutral", or "reception", with priority evacuees being moved from the major urban centres and billeted on the available private housing in more rural areas. Each zone covered roughly a third of the population, although several urban areas later bombed had not been classified for evacuation. In early 1939, the reception areas compiled lists of available housing. Space was found for about 2000 people, and the government also constructed camps which provided a few thousand additional spaces.Year of printing: 1940s, country of printing: UK , designer: Unknown , dimensions (cm): 76x51. Good condition, folded as issued, tears and creases in margins.