Unseen WWII propaganda posters beat estimate by 89%

Unseen WWII propaganda posters beat estimate by 89%

An archive of unseen WWII propaganda posters realised £18,995 ($30,070) at David Lay in Penzance on November 6.

The collection of around 150 individual lots beat its £10,000 ($15,830) estimate by 89.9%.

ATS poster WWII
This ATS poster was banned for being too glamorous

There were a number of reasons that the posters weren't released.

An ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) poster featuring an attractive blonde woman was considered "too glamorous", while it was feared that a series of caricatures of high profile Nazis urging Britons to "spread more gossip" and "neglect your work" could have been taken literally.

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