Food Needs Transport Don't Waste It WWII
Original vintage World War Two poster - Food Needs Transport Don't Waste It - featuring a great design by the notable Polish born design duo Lewitt-Him (Jan Le Witt: 1907-1991 and George Him; 1900-1982) depicting a steam train travelling into the distance with its load as a loaf of sliced bread instead of carriages, with the crust at the end falling away in the foreground, a silhouette of a signalman waving a flag and blowing his whistle on the side and the bold text in yellow and diagonally from the crust in white lettering. Issued to encourage savings and less waste on the home front during the period of food shortages and rationing ("waste not, want not"); food rations in the UK lasted from 1940-1954. Printed for HM Stationery Office by Geo Gibbons Ltd. Horizontal. Good condition, staining, repaired tears, backed on linen,
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