Empire Air Mail Scheme

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Artist/Maker	General Post Office (issuer) Peingdnum (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster with a text design advertising the Empire Air Mail Scheme. The various lines of text are written in black, red, yellow and blues against a ground colour that dissolves horizontally from dark to pale grey.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Empire Air Mail Scheme
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Colour Lithography
Brief description	Colour lithograph poster with a text design advertising the Empire Air Mail Scheme. Designed by Peingdnum and issued by the General Post Office, Great Britain, ca.1937.
Physical description	Colour lithograph poster with a text design advertising the Empire Air Mail Scheme. The various lines of text are written in black, red, yellow and blues against a ground colour that dissolves horizontally from dark to pale grey.
Dimensions	Height: 76.2cm 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	'EMPIRE / AIRMAIL / SCHEME' (Title text of design, lettered in blue and red) 'letters / postcards' (Text of design, lettered in blue italics) '1 1/2d HALF OUNCE' (Text of design lettered in black and yellow) Signed
Subjects depicted	Postal Service Text
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	30/B5 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.134-1976

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O556694/empire-air-mail-scheme-poster-peingdnum/

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