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You have in your pocket silver bullets that will stop the Germans. Lend them to your country by investing in the war loan to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex. – Historic Reproduction

You have in your pocket silver bullets that will stop the Germans. Lend them to your country by investing in the war loan to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex., London : published by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee, [1915] — vintage poster
You have in your pocket silver bullets that will stop the Germans. Lend them to your country by investing in the war loan to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex., London : published by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee, [1915]. Vintage poster from the World War I collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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You have in your pocket silver bullets that will stop the Germans. Lend them to your country by investing in the war loan to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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You have in your pocket silver bullets that will stop the Germans. Lend them to your country by investing in the war loan to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex.

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Rather than showing soldiers or battlefields, this poster is all text beneath the royal arms of King George V, and it recasts the coins in a pocket as weapons: "silver bullets that will stop the Germans." It asks ordinary people to lend their savings to the state by buying into the war loan, a way of paying for the fighting that depended on civilian money as much as on the army. Printed by David Allen & Sons of Harrow, a leading British poster firm, it shows how wartime government appealed to thrift and patriotism at once.

Created / publishedLondon : published by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee, [1915]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 51 cm.
GenreWar posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920.
NotesTitle from item. Poster is text only, with arms of King George V at top. Poster no. 6. W.5322, 20M - 7/15.
SubjectsWorld War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Great Britain. War bonds & funds--Great Britain--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,016 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference1768_You_have_in_your_pocket_1915

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