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Artist/Maker	General Post Office (issuer) Eckersley, Tom (OBE) (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

'Please pack parcels very carefully'. Colour lithograph poster with the image of a broken china horse. Signed.

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Please pack parcels very carefully
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph print Colour Lithography
Brief description	'Please pack parcels very carefully'. Colour lithograph poster with the image of a broken china horse. Designed by Tom Eckersley (OBE). Issued by the General Post Office. Great Britain. c.1954.
Physical description	'Please pack parcels very carefully'. Colour lithograph poster with the image of a broken china horse. Signed.
Dimensions	Height: 73.7cm Width: 91.4cm Dimensions 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.)
Subjects depicted	Ceramics Horse
Associated object	E.505-1985 (Series)
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	11/F1 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.504-1985

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O540507/please-pack-parcels-very-carefully-poster-eckersley-tom-obe/

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