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284. Anon: America Gives Him.. Opportunity He Must Not Lose It! Buy War Bonds 1943.
Attractive, if oddball, die cut poster with elaborate gold frame pictures a daydreaming boy with a large model plane parked on his desk and a print of another plane on his bedroom wall. Printed for the 7 Up company that promoted a happy future despite the war. Hard to find especially in perfect condition.
15x21 M $250.
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Poster issued by Jeep builder Willys to encourage school children to raise money to buy more jeeps. Poster detail specific costs of each Jeep part. Prices for Jeeps were reasonable. The body cost $235, the clutch $12! After securing a War Department contract in 1940, Willys produced more than 350,000 jeeps by 1945.
44x35 NML $875.
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Grimacing GI appears to be locked in mortal combat with an unseen enemy. His Colt.45 automatic rests on the ground in front of him just beyond the barbed wire that frames the lower part of the Hollywood action. The Colt .45 was introduced in 1911 and is still in use today. Privately printed by Kroger Baking Company.
35x47 NML $950.
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A menacing Nazi sentry holding a rifle with fixed bayonet to guard U.S. Route 50, a highway that runs through Cincinnati, Ohio. The ‘street’ illustrated on this poster happened to run through the home of the Kroger Baking Company that issued this alarming poster.
Bird and Rubinstein 91. 35x47 NML $950.
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Marines raise the flag above bloody Mt. Suribachi, key to victory on the tiny island of Iwo Jima where 6,000 Marines died. This famous image of the war in the Pacific was based on an AP photo. Only two of the six men struggling to raise the stars and stripes survived the battle.
Nelson 122. 27x19 NML $385.
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Crouched in the nose cone of a bomber, most liked a B24 Liberator, a workhorse of the western front, a bombardier is shown pressing the button over an enemy port. Benny was a prolific war artist, designing posters and paintings of his travels in war zones. Rare, issued by Abbott Labs.
Signed by the artist. 12x9 ML $285.
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Gritting his teeth and setting his jaw, a Marine braces himself for battle, in this case the invasion of the Japanese home islands. Had it been necessary, it would have been a virtual Gotterdamerung, the apocalyptic end to the ironically named but savagely fought Pacific War.
Bird & Ruben-stein 47, Nelson 124, Paret 290. Stanley 105. 28x20 NML $350.
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George Washington Carver, legendary polymath, born into slavery who is celebrated today for promoting peanuts and soybeans to replace the depleted cotton crop, saving farms throughout the south. Here he is quoted as “without vision there is no hope. Protect your country...and your future”.
Very rare. 26x19 NML $1250.
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Using the title of a Bogart movie that premiered in 1940, an exultant GI unfurls the stars and stripes blown taught in a fresh wind. The flagpole's angle reinforced by the strength of his outstretched arm add a dramatic sweep to the patriotic composition.
Nelson 115, Vella 226, Zeman 73. 40x28 NML $650.
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Poster illustrates the long awaited invasion of Europe. GI toting a Thorp-son takes the high ground backed by a cast of thousands. Troops disembarking from LSTs behind him weren’t so lucky; they take a pounding from enemy artillery.
Bird & Rubenstein 46. 40x28 NML $385.
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Pilot wearing seat parachute and life vest flashes the famous V for Victory sign while hitching a ride on a load of bombs being towed out to the flight line. The President of Abbott Labs, which printed this poster, sent artists he selected from New York galleries to the Pacific to record the fighting first hand.
16x11 NML $325.
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Norman Rockwell was probably the most famous American artist of the war years, beloved for his many Saturday Evening Post covers depicting life in small town USA. Here he illustrates President Roosevelt’s four freedoms (freedom from want and fear, freedom of speech and religion) on a single poster.
Gregory 65. 40x28 ANML $850.
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Fine set of Rockwel’ls iconic hymn to the American way of life which espouse our traditional values: home, country and family. Each scene contains individuals at ease with themselves in an essentially hospitable world, all rendered in exquisite detail. FDR's Four Freedoms, the specific reasons for which we fought, were enumerated in his 1942 State of the Union address. Rockwell originally proposed illustrating the Freedoms to the Office of War Information, the main agency in charge of posters, but was rebuffed. The OWI considered Rockwell an 'illustrator' and not an 'artist.'The Saturday Evening Post finally commissioned the series. The magazine received a record number of requests for copies. The OWI ate humble pie and printed the Freedoms in 1943.
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Aulich 210. Bird & Rubenstein 37, Bredhoff 7-8, Darracott & Loftus 52, Judd 7-1, Nelson 48, Stanley 106.
40x28 ANML $2850. for set of four.
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Treasury Department poster suggests that series E bonds would make ideal Christmas gifts. The Liberty bell and a Christmas tree share the stage on this rather rare poster. Series E bonds were purchased at 75 cents on the dollar and accrued interest of 4% for 40 years compounded semi-annually.
Uncommon. 38x29 NML $385.
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Poster promises an earlier end to to the war if civilians choose to invest in war bonds. Illustration of a young sergeant, toting his helmet and rifle, pushing open the welcoming gate of the all-American white picket fence, the gateway to the ideal house of the 40s.
Uncommon Abbott Labs poster. 20x15 NM $300.
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Shadowed by a swastika, three children stop playing, sensing danger above. The oldest child shields his younger brother while still holding on to a model of a toy U.S. bomber, the powerful weapon which will deliver them all from evil.
Bredhoff 24, Gregory 7, Nelson 151. 28x40 NML $950.
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The present with a future" the inspired subtitle of war bond poster that recommends bonds as the ideal present for everyone on the 1943 Christmas list. Here war bonds and war savings stamps are the only ornaments on a streamlined Christmas tree tilted at a rakish angle.
Bird & Rubinstein 6. 28x22 NML $185.
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Cheerful poster by the Wilkinson father and son artistic team shows a Santa Claus suggesting that defense bonds and stamps will make perfect Christmas gifts. When this bond poster was printed, Pearl Harbor hadn’t yet been attacked.
Bird & Rubenstein 23. 27x21 NML $850.