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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HANS ARNOLD ROTHHOLZ (1919-2000) POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK. 1955. 29x36 inches, 73 3/4x160 cm. Haycock Press, London. Condition B: tape on verso along tear at left edge into image; tears, losses and pin holes at edges; creases and abrasions in margins and image and along vertical fold; sharp folds in upper corners. Paper. In the darkest days of the Second World War, the General Post Office (GPO) commissioned different artists to work on a campaign aimed at getting citizens to deposit their money in the postal bank, from which the funds were used to help finance the war effort. By "making your money provide the driving power"(which was the slogan of the whole campaign), citizens could concurrently save while supporting the government's military cause. This dramatic image shows a steel foundry at night, with what are perhaps air raid spotlights punctuating the darkness to intensify the war-time atmosphere. The only color in the poster is the recently-forged, still glowing-hot barrel of a giant gun. IWM PST 16466.
