eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5p187 HELP STOP THIS linen 10x15 WWI war poster '17 Adolph Treidler art, keep him out of America! Date Sold 3/3/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked World War I Poster (measures 9 1/2" x 14 1/2" [24 x 37 cm]) (Learn More) Help Stop This, the 1917 U.S. World War I (WWI) War Bonds poster ("Buy W.S.S. & keep him out of America"; "This Poster Won the First Prize in the Poster Competition Under the Auspices of the American Institute of Graphic Arts") encouraging people to help with the war effort by purchasing war savings stamps, and featuring Adolph Treidler art of a German soldier carrying a rifle and bloody knife with the ruins of a town in the background. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Adolph Treidler Important Added Info: Note that this was printed as a supplement to "The North American", the Philadelphia Sunday newspaper, on September 22, 1918, with the caption "This poster won the first prize in the poster competition under the auspices of the American Institute of Graphic Arts".
What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was folded across the middle and had minor wear on that fold, and three small tears in the right border. Someone put a tiny pinhole through the poster and the linen below the "W" of "W.S.S." in the yellow box. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades
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