Keep What You Know To Yourself

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Artist/Maker	HM Government (issuer) Mount, (Edward) Reginald (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Colour offset lithograph poster showing a cartoon man with a zip fastening for a mouth, closing the zip with one hand and using the other to point above his head at the message 'KEEP WHAT YOU KNOW TO YOUSELF'. All against a white ground.

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Categories	Prints Propaganda Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Keep What You Know To Yourself
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description	'Keep What You Know To Yourself'. Colour offset lithograph poster designed by (Edward) Reginald Mount and issued by Her Majesty's Government, Great Britain, 1964.
Physical description	Colour offset lithograph poster showing a cartoon man with a zip fastening for a mouth, closing the zip with one hand and using the other to point above his head at the message 'KEEP WHAT YOU KNOW TO YOUSELF'. All against a white ground.
Dimensions	Height: 76cm Width: 50.7cm Measurements taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions	Signed. 'KEEP / WHAT / YOU / KNOW / TO / YOUSELF' (Lettered in black in the top-right corner of the design.) 'CARELESS SHOP-TALK IS DANGEROUS' (Lettered in black, at a diagonal across the design.)
Subjects depicted	Secrecy Man Zip
Bibliographic reference	Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other number	27/F9 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.213-1982

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548567/keep-what-you-know-to-poster-mount-edward-reginald/

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