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South And East African Air Mail. Make Every Day Posting Day

Poster
1937 (designed)
Artist/Maker
General Post Office (issuer)
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Poster promoting African Air Mail services, signed and dated 'E McKnight Kauffer '37' and numbered 'P. R. D. 169'.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleSouth And East African Air Mail. Make Every Day Posting Day (trade title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
'South And East African Air Mail. Make Every Day Posting Day'. Colour offset lithograph poster designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and issued by the General Post Office, Great Britain, 1937.
Physical description
Poster promoting African Air Mail services, signed and dated 'E McKnight Kauffer '37' and numbered 'P. R. D. 169'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 37.6cm
  • Width: 25.5cm
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
  • 'E McKnight Kauffer '37' (Signed and dated)
  • 'P. R. D. 169' (Numbered)
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971
Other number
22/G2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.318-1971

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1036120/south-and-east-african-air-poster-kauffer-edward-mcknight/
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