Help with poster

[vellocino]

Hi, I need your help deciding if the following WWI poster is original or not, seller claims that is total original, I took the chance since I dont see this this poster very often and I collect the gold gab ich fur eisen theme. Probably some or you are not well versed on WWI german poster, but if someone knows a source of information that can be helpul or just a small clue on what I need to expect to see on an original WWI poster, I will gladly appreciated your input.
I already bought it, but I'm watiing for it to be shipped from Canada, in the meantime I want to obtain information that could help me evaluate it once gets here.
Thank you in advance for your small or great information you can share or lead me in the right direction where to obtain it.
Thank you again,
Sincerely
Vellocino
ABQ, NM

[vellocino]

Poster measures 18 2/8" x 13 1/2"

[vellocino]

Thanks

[vellocino]

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[Bullmann]

I have to point out that I have never seen this poster before and have no knowledge of it in peticular, but my field of collecting is war posters, and I think it looks good.
From the pictures the printing technique looks to be right. It´s often relatively easy to establish if a poster is printed in the period from aprox. 1950 - now, because the use of sheer printing without printing plates looks quite different from the style of printing used before the 1950'ies. This vintage style was printed using various techniques that all involved the use of printing plates, however with different emphasis on how many colours that were used, and therefore also how many plates that had to be used in the process. Sometimes the artist drew details straight onto some of the printing plates. One could of course not print such posters in great numbers. All these printing techniques were in many ways litographic. In the years just before the second world war, the photo litography-technique appeared, and allthough it resembled more the technique they use today, it was still a litographic technique evolving printing plates, and the look is distinctively different form the modern style.
These prints have all got a non-glossy finish and often such prints seem somewhat unfocused, because some of the printing plates often could get slightly dislocated from the others in the printing process. Quite often the print "bled" slightly through the paper creating a faint reverse image on the backside of the poster. The posters of the time where mostly printed on thin light-weight paper as well. All these things seem apparent in your pictures, but better ones can perhaps make it more definitive in establishing its authencity.

[vellocino]

Gold Gab Ich Fur Eisen

Hi, thank you for your response about the poster Bullman, I really appreciate the gesture of sharing your opinion, for now these are all the pictures I have available provided for the seller, I have to wait a couple of weeks to get the poster on my hands since Canadian postal service are a little bit slow on deliveries, once I have it, I will post better pics for all of us to evaluate. The Gold for Iron program was a patriotic propaganda program used first on 1813 to raise funds for the war, reestablished again during WWI, asked for the populace to donate their gold or silver jewelry or other valuable to support the war effort, in exchange they received diverse items (medallions, rings, watch fobs) made of iron to show their patriotism.
Here its one of the most common medallions depicting the same imagery as the poster, made by the artist Hosaeus.
Soon I will post my collection of gold for iron items that I had the opportunity to find.
I hope someone else join this discussion and provide any links that can be useful or just their opinion.
The Library of Congress in the USA, have almost the same poster with slight differences.
Thank again for your input and have a nice day
Sincerely,
Vellocino

[Bullmann]

Just glad if I can be of any help.
Looking through the pictures again I feel pretty convinced about this being the real thing, but I look forward to better close-ups of especially the text (Both the white and gold). Seems like an exciting and somewhat uncommon field of collecting. I haven't heard about it before, so thanks for the interesting information.

[Jesse]

To be honest, I love it! If it is not a period piece and you did not pay too much, I think it is still something I would like to have. Just my 2 penny's.

Thanks for showing it.

J

[vellocino]

Gold for Iron

Thanks for your opinion, I still waiting for it, but I feel more optmistic about it, I will take it to a local ephemera collector to see what he had to say. Luckily it will be my crowning piece on my Gold gab ich fur eisern collection. Once I have it my possesion I will post the entire collection for you to see. Even tough it seems that such economic at mid price pieces of imperial germany are not as important as EKIs, grandiouses medal bars and others pieces that surely are out of my reach. I feel that the honest sentiment that regular people put on giving something to the country on desperate times of need, was also important for the war effort.
Thanks Jesse and Bullman for your comments and I hope somebody else shares interest on this patriotic program shown by the german people and german americans during the first years of WWI.
Thanks again,
Vellocino
ABQ, NM