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Auction History Result 1h0574 HELP THE BOYS TO KEEP THEM RUNNING 27x41 Canadian WWI war poster 1917 soldiers fleeing, rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Canadian World War I Poster (measures 26 1/2" x 41" [67 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Help The Boys To Keep Them Running, the circa 1917 Canadian World War I (WWI) military recruitment poster ("Enlist with the 245th batt over-seas. Canadian Grenadier Guards. Lt. Col. C.C. Ballantyne. Apply at the Armoury"; "Now recruiting") encouraging men to join the military, and featuring art of German soldiers fleeing from bullets and explosions. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Also, this poster has an unusual provenance. It came from a collection of a man named Edward H. McCrahon, who, although he was a Brooklyn-born American, served in the French army in early World War I, prior to the U.S. entering the war. While in France, he first encountered war posters, and it was love at first sight, and he started collecting them, and by the mid 1930s, he had what is believed to be the best collection of war posters ever (and he was written up in Ripley's Believe It or Not!). He was very happy to lend his posters to museums for exhibitions, and because he recognized that being on public display and being transported could be harmful to their condition, he had many of his posters coated with a clear coating that was NOT varnish. Posters that are varnished almost always turn amber colored, while the clear coating that McCrahon used sometimes did not change the color. This poster was purchased by our consignor from a Guernsey's auction of 1,400+ war posters from the McCrahon collection, and he has had it ever since, until he has consigned it to us. Please be aware that this poster has this clear coating on it that almost certainly can't be removed, but, as evidenced by looking at the poster, it has not changed color in many decades, and almost certainly never will! Condition: good. Please read the information above before reading this condition information. Many years ago, to prepare for an exhibition, the owner had the poster mounted to a very thin linen with no excess and someone applied a clear coating to this poster at that time that was NOT varnish, and it has not darkened the poster. In the case this one poster the poster is darkened, but we strongly suspect that it had darkened prior to the collector applying the varnish; see our image. In addition, two metal hooks were glued to the back of the top left and top right of the poster. There are many light creases and scuffs scattered throughout the poster but the poster displays well in spite of all of the above. But please look closely at our super-sized image and read all of the above before you bid on this poster, which comes from the greatest collection of war posters ever assembled! Learn More about condition grades 
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