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Freedom Is In Peril Defend It With All Your Might, original WW2 poster with red background and white lettering and Crown, printed 1939 - 76 x 50.5 cm In September 1939 Keep Calm and two other letterpress posters had been put into production, Freedom is in Peril... and Your Courage... were displayed in public places, but the Keep Calm... poster now recognised the World over with the unforgettable slogan was not, it is now widely accepted that it was held back in anticipation of an invasion of Britain or a severe air raid. The "Phony War" being the period September 1939 to May 1940 proved to be largely uneventful for the Home Front, The poster in this lot was one of the first Ministry of Information posters to be displayed at the outbreak of the War. It is interesting to note that no printers details appear on this poster.
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Grade B folds and small tears
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Estimate £400 - £500
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Starting Price £280
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