Alfred Leete (1882-1933) Britons (Kitchener) "Wants You" Join Your Country's Army ! God Save the King, original WW1 recruiting poster printed by the Victoria House Printing Company Co. Ltd. September 1914 - 75.4 x 51 cm This rare and iconic poster is one of only six known to exist, there are examples in the Imperial War Museum, State Library of Victoria Melbourne and the Robert Opie Collection. These rooms sold a copy in our Great War poster auction in July 2014 and a another copy by private treaty. It has been wrongly reported in the press that the poster's existence was a urban myth and was never used as a recruiting poster this was not the case. Proof of the poster being displayed publicly in 1914 has now come to light in two photographs, one showing the poster on a hoarding with other's published by the Parliamentary Recruiting poster at Liverpool Station 15th December 1914 and the other posted on pillars of Chester's Town Hall. It would be reasonable to say that the rarity of this poster could be put down to the numbers printed being far less than the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee issued posters of which there was a surplus available for sale after the war. The poster and the others in the following five lots were found by a relative of the original owner whilst clearing their house in Cumbria.
Alfred Leete (1882-1933) Britons (Kitchener) "Wants You" Join Your Country's Army ! God Save the King, original WW1 recruiting poster printed by the Victoria House Printing Company Co. Ltd. September 1914 - 75.4 x 51 cm This rare and iconic poster is one of only six known to exist, there are examples in the Imperial War Museum, State Library of Victoria Melbourne and the Robert Opie Collection. These rooms sold a copy in our Great War poster auction in July 2014 and a another copy by private treaty. It has been wrongly reported in the press that the poster's existence was a urban myth and was never used as a recruiting poster this was not the case. Proof of the poster being displayed publicly in 1914 has now come to light in two photographs, one showing the poster on a hoarding with other's published by the Parliamentary Recruiting poster at Liverpool Station 15th December 1914 and the other posted on pillars of Chester's Town Hall. It would be reasonable to say that the rarity of this poster could be put down to the numbers printed being far less than the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee issued posters of which there was a surplus available for sale after the war. The poster and the others in the following five lots were found by a relative of the original owner whilst clearing their house in Cumbria.
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