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Description: | Concept: empire / commonwealth, civilian personnel, civilian effort, war loans / savings, animals, allegory, landscape, business / trading / markets, women / womens work, costume / fashion Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, set against a white background and held within a narrow black border. The title is integrated and positioned in the centre right, in black. The main text is separate and placed in the lower quarter, also in black, held within a grey inset with a narrow black border. Further text is integrated and located in the upper centre, in black. image: full length depictions of a Ceylonese man and woman standing together in front of a coconut palm. A snake - representing a profiteer - is wrapped around the palm's trunk. The palm's coconuts represent goods that the profiteer wishes to sell. text: BLACK MARKET LUXURY GOODS GOODS THAT OCCUPY VALUABLE SHIPPING SPACE CAN BE DONE WITHOUT PROFITEER WOULD YOU BUY IF YOU HAD TO CLIMB FOR IT? BUY Savings Certificates instead - and watch your money GROW J.N.A. 22827 - 3,500 (3/43). GOVT. PRESS, COLOMBO. For particulars, apply to the Commissioner, War Savings Movement, P.O. Box 541, Colombo. Object: coconut, tree, umbrella, parcel, hat, handbag | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: Ceylon Government Press, Colombo Publisher/Sponsor: Ceylon War Savings Movement | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5141... | Go to resource |
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