Use Spades not Ships
Poster
1941-1945 (issued)
1941-1945 (issued)
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'Use Spades not Ships. Grow your own food And Supply Your Own Cookhouse'. Colour lithograph propoganda poster. Signed.
Object details
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| Title | Use Spades not Ships |
| Materials and techniques | colour lithograph |
| Brief description | 'Use Spades not Ships. Grow your own food And Supply Your Own Cookhouse'. Colour lithograph propoganda poster. Designed by Abram Games. Issued by the War Office during the Second World War. Great Britain. c.1941-45. |
| Physical description | 'Use Spades not Ships. Grow your own food And Supply Your Own Cookhouse'. Colour lithograph propoganda poster. Signed. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Signed.) |
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| 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 |
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| Accession number | E.151-1980 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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