Your King & Country Need You: A Chip of the Old Block – Vintage Print
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Step back in time with Your King & Country Need You: A Chip of the Old Block, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Your King & Country Need You: A Chip of the Old Block
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Its title turns the most famous recruiting call of 1914 into a family joke. "Your Country Needs You," the pointing Lord Kitchener poster that appeared in British newspapers and on hoardings that summer, became one of the most recognized images of the war, and this piece borrows its direct, personal address to suggest that the nation's appeal was being passed down through generations. The idiom "a chip of the old block" means a son who takes after his father, so the pun works on two levels: it is about recruitment and about inherited duty. Pictures like this one show how quickly the government's wartime imagery was taken up, copied and reworked by the press and by ordinary people in Britain.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 4,028 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1080_Your_king_country_need_1914 |
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