description
Object description
whole: a circular image occupies the centre, set against a black background. The title, in gold, surrounds the image.
Further text is positioned separately along the bottom in black.
image: a black silhouette of a kneeling woman facing right. She wears a long dress, holds a jewellery case under her arm and offers a gold
medallion in her outstretched left hand.
text: GOLD GAB ICH ZUR WEHR EISEN NAHM ICH ZUR EHR
HOLLERBAUM UND SCHMIDT BERLIN. N.65
GIPKENS NACH HOSAEUS
BRINGT EUREN GOLDSCHMUCK DEN GOLDANKAUFSSTELLEN!
[I gave gold for defence - I took iron for honour. Gipkens after Hosaeus. Bring your gold jewellery to the gold purchasing
centres!]
Physical description
Uses a similar image and text as PST 3225.
The same image was used on other posters (see PST 7442 and PST 7443).
A larger version was also produced (see PST 11294).
Label
The image is based on a sculpture by Herrmann Hosaeus, who was born in Eisenach in 1875, and worked as a sculptor in
Munich, Nuremberg and Berlin. Another poster designer, Lucien Bernhard, also based a poster on the same Hosaeus sculpture (see PST
3225).
Inscription
8355(2)
Inscription
IWM: PST: 7434 [deleted]
Inscription
7434
Inscription
German Economy: Gold Purchase.
Inscription
Abteilung A Magistrat 1.1.17. Aufruf[?] Bringt Euren Goldschmuck zu den Goldankaufsstellen. (Bildplakat)
Inscription
493
