Aug 04, 2022 - Sale 2612

Sale 2612 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

L.N. BRITTON (1858-1934)

WARNING! / CONSIDER THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES IF YOU ARE CARELESS IN YOUR WORK. Circa 1917.


41 1/4x28 1/4 inches, 105x72 cm. Latham Litho., [New York.]
Condition B+ / A-: tears and creases at edges; small loss in upper left corner; horizontal fold. Paper.

One of the rarer World War I posters, designed to promote attentiveness and care in America's factories. A clear precursor of the Mather Work Incentive posters of the next decade. Rawls 180 and back cover, Theofiles pl C4, Looping the Loop pl. 75.