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Your Maxim Buy War Bonds restored 1918 British poster by Bert Thomas: a machine-gun crew in silhouette firing a Maxim gun fed by a belt of war bond certificates on an orange background
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Your Maxim: Buy War Bonds — Paper Print

Price range: $49.00 through $179.00

A 1918 British war bonds poster by Bert Thomas, restored: a machine-gun crew in silhouette fires a Maxim gun fed by a long belt of war bond certificates, against a blazing orange sky. Your Maxim: “Buy War Bonds”.

Paper or framed print
Unframed or framed, printed to order in the USA.

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Made to order. All sales final. Replacements or refunds only for damaged, faulty or incorrect prints reported within 7 days. Returns policy

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  • Free Standard shipping to the US
  • Printed to order in the USA, paper or framed
  • Quality promise: damaged, faulty or incorrect prints replaced if reported within 7 days (details)
Paper & printing

Giclée print on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper: a smooth, natural-white fine-art stock with no glare, so the restored colours read true under any light.

Each print has a slim white border and is supplied unframed, ready for a standard frame or hanging clips.

Shipping & returns

Every print is made to order. Standard shipping to the US is free; Express is available at checkout. You will get tracking details by email when your print is on its way.

Because each print is custom-made, all sales are final and we do not accept change-of-mind returns. If your print arrives damaged, has a production fault or is the wrong item, tell us within 7 days of delivery with photos and we will send a free replacement.

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Which size should I choose?

11.7 × 16.5 in suits a desk, shelf or gallery wall. 20 × 28 in works above a desk, console or bed. 23.4 × 33.1 in is a statement piece above a sofa or in a hallway.

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Framing

Framed prints come in a solid wood, satin-finish frame in black, white or natural wood, glazed with shatterproof acrylic. The print is the same 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper as our unframed editions.

Framed artwork sizes are 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in and 23 × 33 in (the frame adds a little to each side). Every frame is made to order in the USA and arrives with a hook fitted, ready to hang.

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Each size is shown to scale on the same wall. Prints are unframed and made to order.

Description

The Your Maxim poster

Your Maxim “Buy War Bonds” was drawn by the British cartoonist Bert Thomas and issued in August 1918 by the National War Savings Committee as poster no. 113, printed by the Grosvenor Press. Three infantrymen work a Maxim-type machine gun on a black hillside, and the belt feeding the gun is made of war bond certificates snaking down the page. The pun is in the title: a maxim is a motto, and the Maxim was the machine gun.

Thomas was famous for “’Arf a mo’, Kaiser!”, his 1914 cartoon of a grinning Tommy lighting his pipe, which helped raise about £250,000 for soldiers’ tobacco. He drew for Punch for more than forty years and in 1918 painted a giant war bonds poster across the front of the National Gallery in London.

This is a British poster, part of our Allied collection.

Read the full history of the poster.

Restored edition

Restored from a photograph of an original print. The colour was cleaned and brought back, with folds, stains, tears and wear removed. The lettering and printed marks are kept from the original.

Sizes and options

  • Paper print: 11.7 × 16.5 in, 20 × 28 in or 23.4 × 33.1 in
  • Framed print: 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in or 23 × 33 in, in a black, white or natural wood frame, ready to hang

Printed to order in the USA on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper. Free Standard shipping to the US. Compare the print sizes.

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