Description

[004937] [Propaganda Poster] Talk Kills. ill. Games, A.[bram]. [London]: 1943. First Edition. Double Elephant. Unbound. Poster. Good+. Printed poster, approximately 530mm x 775mm in size

Once folded, now backed with linen, one or two tiny amounts of colour loss to surface, otherwise quite bright and clean

Designed by Abram Games (1914-1996), and printed by Henry Hildesley Limited

Games designed many British wartime propaganda and information posters over the course of his military service with the Royal Engineers. In 1942 he was appointed Official War Poster Artist. He produced two versions of this poster showing the possible consequences of disclosing sensitive information about the war – one coloured green that suggested a death at sea, and another coloured red which suggested a death on land (From the National Army Museum website)