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Vilkata


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Sometimes you see reproductions of WWI propaganda posters, and I had always wanted some quality copies.

http://www.artsnotdead.com/

"Art's Not Dead" is a really good reproducer that offers their posters in full size paper, or canvas. They have a fair selection, and while a bit pricey, they are a very very quality product. The canvas prints look especially amazing!

Here are a few of the ones I own, and that I can heartily reccomend:


"Hungary, 1914. Foldes. A favorite, this reproduction of a Hungarian beer company poster created in 1914 (World War One) translates roughly, "The beer from the spring hops has arrived: the enemy is surrendering". The Allied soldiers - among them a French poilu, a Scotsman, and a Russian - would rather drink beer than fight, and are surrendering to beer drinking Hungarian troopers and their German allies"


"Give to the Submarine Fund. Willy Stower, 1917. This awesome World War One German reproduction propaganda poster asking for Germans to donate money to support the ranks of the u-boat sailors. Stower was a favorit artist of the Kaiser and here he paints a forlorn image of lonely sailors in a stormy sea. Submarines were to become one of the most important developments in the war. Never before used extensively in warfare the submarine was to prove devastating in World War One. Notice the old pre-swastika war flag flying on the top of the sub, this flag was not changed until 1935 to the emblem of the third reich."


"Das Gehemimnis Von Luttich Unser Bombenerfolg Originalgrobe. An interesting poster, the captions loosely translates as, "The secret from Luttich, our huge success the 42cm mystery shell". This poster alluded to a new type of German artillery shell. The original poster was printed the exact size of the artillery shell."

The WWI posters are hard to pick out from the mass of WWII posters they have, but there are quite a few of them. There is a very good USA 'Join The Tanks' poster from WWI in the USA section that I am having trouble linking to. I find it interesting that nearly all the WWII posters could be found offensive by some people, yet it is hard to find anything offensive in the WWI posters. I absolutely love the Hungarian beer poster. Doesn't that sound like the best idea to end war? Just surrender and get drunk with your enemy! If only everyone was a 'happy drunk'.

---Vil.

P.S. Have I posted about this fantastic site before? If I have, I apologise. And also, just exactly which 'mystery gun' do you think the giant artillery shell poster is supposed to represent? The repro-poster shell is only about 30cm wide - While I wish the repro was like the original, exactly 42cm wide, it is still a very cool poster.


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Mark Hansen


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Nice posters, Vilkata. Could be very useful for a street scene diorama....

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Roger Todd


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Great posters Vilkata, thanks!


As for the 'mystery 42cm gun', it's the Dicke Berta - Luttich is the German name for Liege, the Belgian fortress system famously clobbered ('our huge success') in August 1914 (see http://www.landships.freeservers.com/42cm_bigbertha.htm).



-- Edited by Roger Todd at 11:20, 2006-05-17

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steve fildes


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A second for the Arts Not Dead site. I haven't ever bought from them, but I've been very impressed for some time with their ever-growing selection from WWI and beyond.

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Vilkata wrote:

A favorite, this reproduction of a Hungarian beer company poster created in 1914 (World War One) translates roughly, "The beer from the spring hops has arrived: the enemy is surrendering". The Allied soldiers - among them a French poilu, a Scotsman, and a Russian [and a Sikh] - would rather drink beer than fight, and are surrendering to beer drinking Hungarian troopers and their German allies"


On this basis given the taste and potency of most of the Belgian Trappist dark beers the German advance would have halted long long before Mons and Ypres



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Vilkata


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Centurion, I dare say I would have rather gotten drunk with my fellow soldiers off of the equivelent of Chimay Blue, or Rochefort, or even Leffe!

While I have a deep love of dark ales and stouts, I do find the belgian style of golden ales and dark ales very enticing. Chimay Blue is easily obtained in many parts of the world, yet is really a unique tasting beverage.

Something I find interesting, is that the Hungarian Beer poster depicts the beer as a fairly dark ale. These days, Hungary is mostly known for its lagers (as is, to a much greater degree, the Czech Republic).

I'm often upset that it's basically impossible to get a domestic Ale or Stout in virtually any european countrys bar. Whether it is Finland, Norway, Germany... It seems like Pilsners, Lagers, are the only thing available. I relish the idea of going back in time, and perhaps visiting the very same bars only in their previous incarnations, and sampling the variety of dark, rich, ales and stouts they had back then.

---Vil.

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Aleksandr


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You can found some posters on this site:


http://poster.genstab.ru/


It is on Russian, but picture is picture! And links at port side:


-Russian-Japan war


-WWI


-Russian Civil war


-Soviet-Poland war


-Spanish Civil war


-USSR 1920-30


-German 1918-33


-WWII


-Could war


-By contries



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