Aug 05, 2021 - Sale 2577

Sale 2577 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

ARE YOU ONE OF KITCHENER'S OWN?


41x26 1/4 inches, 104x66 1/2 cm. Montreal Litho. Co., Limited, Montreal.
Condition B+ / A-: replaced losses, repaired tears and restoration in top corners.

Simple and patriotic, a Canadian version of Alfrede Leete's Lord Kitchener Wants You poster. Most of the Canadian army recruiting during World War I was conducted at the local level, recruiting for specific regiments or battalions. Members of Montreal's 244th were known as "Kitchener's own." Borkan p. 200.