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9z007 JOIN THE NAVY THE SERVICE FOR FIGHTING MEN linen 28x41 WWI war poster '17 cool Babcock art!

Date Sold 7/7/2013

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An Original Vintage Linenbacked World War I Recruiting Poster (measures 28" x 41 1/4" [71 x 105 cm]) (Learn More)

Join the Navy: The Service For Fighting Men, the 1917 U.S. World War I (WWI) Home Front recruitment poster encouraging men to join the United States Navy, and featuring wonderful Richard Fayerweather Babcock art of a sailor riding a torpedo. One wonders whether Stanley Kubrick was inspired by this poster when he created the scene in Dr. Strangelove, where Slim Pickens "rides" the atom bomb over Russia!

Artist: Richard Fayerweather Babcock

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some creases and tears scattered throughout the image, with some tiny paper loss in part of the tears (if you look closely at our super-sized image, you can locate them). There were tears and tiny paper loss around the edges of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed in a somewhat "minimalist" fashion, with only slight restoration to the above defects. The poster displays very nicely from any reasonable viewing distance, and I agree with the decision to back it in this fashion, because the defects are not very distracting or noticeable, and they more serve to demonstrate that this is a nearly 100 year-old poster (but of course, any talented restorer could perform additional restoration to this really cool poster, if the new owner desired, either with or without re-backing the poster).
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