Properly Packed Parcels Please

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Artist/Maker	GPO (issued by)
Place of origin	United Kingdom (made)

Illustration of explorers excavating an Egyptian tomb

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Properly Packed Parcels Please (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph Paper Ink
Brief description	"Properly Packed Parcels Please" Anonymous GPO poster of explorers excavating an Egyptian tomb. UK, 1966.
Physical description	Illustration of explorers excavating an Egyptian tomb
Dimensions	Height: 73.6cm Width: 91.9cm
Credit line	Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Subjects depicted	Cave Explorers Post Offices
Places depicted	Egypt United Kingdom
Other number	LS.1006 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.107-2004

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Record created	August 15, 2005
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O115319/properly-packed-parcels-please-poster-gpo/

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