eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5p0066 REACH YOUR BOY OVERSEAS BY V MAIL linen 22x28 WWII war poster 1942 Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer art! Date Sold 9/1/2020Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked World War II Poster (measures 22 1/4" x 28" [57 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Reach Your Boy Overseas by V Mail, the 1942 U.S. World War II (WWII) Home Front poster ("The letters that travel on film. Easy to use. Surest - Fastest - and most patriotic"; "Your Stationer and Post Office have V-Mail Letter Forms") encouraging people to use V-mail when sending letters to troops overseas, and featuring Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer close-up art of a soldier. Note that V-Mail (short for Victory Mail) was a hybrid mail process used by the United States during the Second World War as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad. To reduce the cost of transferring an original letter through the military postal system, a V-mail letter would be censored, copied to a film roll with other letters, shipped, and then printed back to paper upon arrival at its destination. Artist: Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this war poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had paper loss in the top corners, but solely in the blue areas. It had small paper loss in the center of the top border, slightly extending into the top right of the "y". It had a few small tears in that border. It had some minor wear on the folds and some smudges in the solid yellow areas. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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