Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 414

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 750 - $ 1,000
(MILITARY--WWII.) FALTER, JOHN "This World Cannot Exist Half Slave and Half free." Fight For Freedom. Recruitment poster, 20x14 inches, linen-backed; faint signs of creases where folded Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942

Additional Details

A World War II recruitment poster, using the famous quote from Abraham Lincoln's 1858 "House Divided" speech. The first example we've seen of this. Depicts a family of dark-skinned people, possibly black, together with a minister, cowering in a corner, a shadow menaces them. The quote from Lincoln was used on at least one other World War II poster for War Bonds. See the next lot.