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Auction History Result 2b365 MATHER & COMPANY linen 28x42 special poster 1923 love your country on decoration day, rare! Date Sold 12/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Special Poster (measures 28" x 41 3/4" [71 x 106 cm]) (Learn More) Mather and Company was a printer located in Chicago, Illinois which is best-known for producing Mather Motivational workplace posters in the 1920s. They were inspired by the U.S. government's poster campaign during World War I (WWI), and the 1920s desire for enhancing efficiency in the workplace. At some point in the early to mid 1920s, Charles Mather, the owner of Mather and Company, started producing these "motivational" posters, which encouraged discipline, loyalty, honesty, productivity and featured great artwork by a number of different artists hired by Mather. Unfortunately, the Stock Market Crash in 1929 caused businesses to greatly economize, and Mather stopped producing the motivational posters and they tried to stay in business by also making non-motivational posters, but they could not survive. But the ones that they did create often contained wonderful art and messages! If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this Mather & Co. poster, which is one of the very nicest ones we have seen, and certainly one with the most poignant and hard-hitting message! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster was never folded. It had a circular punch hole in the left and right of the top border, something we have seen on other Mather and Company posters, and also a circular punch hole each in the left and right of the bottom border, and those slightly extend into the edge of the image. It had paper loss in the lower left border, solely in the blue area, extending vertically around 4" by around 1" in width. Otherwise, the poster is in really nice condition, with bright colors. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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