Description

[004172] [Propaganda Poster] Ssh! The Enemy is Always Listening. ill. Noke. London: H. M. S. O., First Edition. Elephant Folio. Unbound. Poster. Very Good. Single sided lithographic poster, approximately 370mm x 490mm in size, n.d. c.1943

Very light browning to white border, otherwise quite bright and clean

Attractive image of an airman with his finger up to his lips

The designer is seemingly unknown, sometimes attributed to Charles John Noke the ceramicist, but he was dead by 1941. There was an ‘L Noke’ listed as an artist who sold work to the War Artist’s Advisory Committee, but nothing definitive

The IWM have both this, and the Australian reprint of this poster, printed by McLaren and Co., where the airman is described as being of the Royal Australian Air Force