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5517707
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Private Budget
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Colouring
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40 x 27.5 cm
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Year
1943
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Original editorial cartoon on board in pen and ink, published in the London Evening News, 1943, as one of the World War Two ‘Smiling Through’ series, shows a very irate man leaving the ‘Inland revenue, inspector of taxes’ office while saying to his astonished wife: ‘I think that chap’s an Axis agent. Actually suggested that I sell some Savings Certificates to pay my July instalment.’ During World War II a War Savings Campaign was set up in the United Kingdom by the War Office to raise funds for the war effort and people were encouraged to buy savings certificates. Local savings weeks were held which were promoted with posters with titles such as ‘Lend to Defend the Right to be Free’, ‘Save your way to Victory’ and ‘War Savings are Warships’. The suggestion by the tax inspector that the man sell saving certificates to pay his July tax instalment could be viewed as unpatriotic and damaging to the war effort. Board size 40 x 27.5 cm (16 x 11 inch), image size 34.5 x 26 cm, signed lower right, caption in ink in lower border and dated on right border 22-7-43, numbered 2763. Dust staining and darkening along right border, fair condition.