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REMEMBER PROHIBITION REMEMBER PROHIBITION special poster OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2c304 REMEMBER PROHIBITION 19x24 special poster 1940s 1 year liquor can could buy 1,236 bombers! Date Sold 12/12/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Unfolded Special Poster (measures 18 1/2" x 24" [47 x 61 cm]) (Learn More) Remember Prohibition?, the 1940s series of posters ("Don't let it happen again!") created by Calvert Distillers Corp. to warn the public of the dangers of prohibition (and how it completely failed, and resulted in a great increase in crime, and very little reduction in drinking, if any), and the benefits of legal sales of liquor (and how the taxes on liquor help pay for the war effort!). Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. Even after it was repealed, public support for Prohibition remained high in some areas, and in the late 1930s, two fifths of Americans wished to reinstate national Prohibition according to one poll. Calvert Distillers was founded in 1934 and produced products such as Calvert's Blended Whiskey. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this poster! It is one of three great similar posters we are auctioning that were produced by Calvert Distillers during World War II, each with the intention of convincing voters to not let the government re-institute Prohibition. One of the posters tells how one year's liquor taxes pays for 1,236 World War II bombers, one tells how one year's liquor taxes pays for 20 battleships, and the last one shows a "Prohibition magician" trying to hypnotize taxpayers into believing that Prohibition is good for them! We are auctioning these three posters in three separate auctions, and we have never had any of them before, and may never have them again! Condition: very good to fine. The poster was never folded and has the most minor of border wear. Learn More about condition grades 
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