Gold Coast Cocoa Talking Drums Empire Marketing Board
Original vintage advertising poster for Gold Coast Cocoa entitled The Talking Drums issued by the Empire Marketing Board featuring a great image of native Africans wearing traditional colourful clothing, sitting under parasols with a man playing music on a drum using curved drumsticks (an historical instrument that mimics the tone and pitch of human speech), with the text below - British goods exported to the Gold Coast totalled £1,590,000 in 1906 and £5,717,000 in 1926. Located on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa (now part of Ghana), the Gold Coast was a British colony from 1867-1957; the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933) campaign aimed to promote trade within the British Empire. Lithograph artwork by Spencer Pryse (Gerald Spenser Pryce; 1882-1957). Printed for H.M Stationery Office by Nathaniel Lloyd & Co Ltd. London. Fair condition, restored paper losses, staining, restored tears, backed on linen.
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