?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LEND YOUR MONEY TO YOUR GOVERNMENT. 1917. 36x471/2 inches. American Lithographing Co., New York. Condition B: restored losses, repaired tears and heavy overpainting in margins and image. An exceptional architectural rendering of the new Treasury building in Washington D.C. (in 1917 still surrounded by unpaved roads). Unlike other bond posters this image makes the clear explanation that the "U.S. Treasury will pay you interest every six months." Rawls attributes this as an attempt to educate the American public, most of whom were innocent in the ways of high finance and to whom "bonds were something quite new" and who would often ask when they had to make interest payments! (Rawls p. 196). Theofiles 130.
