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Auction History Result 3j0841 HAVE YOU A RED CROSS SERVICE FLAG linen 21x28 WWI war poster 1918 Jessie W. Smith art, rare! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked World War I Poster (measures 21" x 27 3/4" [53 x 70 cm]) (Learn More) Have You A Red Cross Service Flag?, the 1918 U.S. World War I (WWI) Home Front charity poster encouraging people to donate to the Red Cross, and featuring Jessie Willcox Smith art of a boy displaying a service flag in a window (in World War I, those Americans who had a family member serving overseas would display a Red Cross service flag in their front window, so that everyone in their town knew that those families had a member "in harm's way"). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Jessie Willcox Smith Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this World War I Red Cross poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster was never folded, but it had creases, tears, and small paper loss scattered throughout, more so down the center and around the edges. It appears the entire poster had darkened. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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