Scottish military posters

**Tobus** · 30th June 14, 05:12 AM

I've long been an admirer and collector of old military posters. Most notably propaganda posters and recruitment posters. Poster art used to be a unique industry, where artists painted amazingly colourful and complex advertisements for private retailers, and I'm sure you've all seen great examples. But when wartime came, they would apply their talent towards the war effort. In many cases they worked in concert with political cartoonists for the more obvious propaganda pieces. But the artistic expression of these posters has always fascinated me, with the patriotic appeals to duty and the imagery that was meant to instill a sense of pride, or duty, or fear, or even hatred.

Anyway, I have a lot of military posters from all over the world that I tend to rotate as display pieces on the wall in my gun room. But I convinced the wife to let me expand the idea into other parts of the house. I decided to go with a Scottish military theme with kilted soldiers for the guest bath. These are reprints of WWI recruitment posters, matted and framed for presentation (the first is actually Canadian, while the other two are Scottish). I'm not much of an interior decorator and don't usually go 'fancy' with the framing of my posters, but it was kind of fun picking out the matte colours for these.

I'd like to find some other reprints of vintage WWI or WWII posters with kilted soldiers in them, but am having a hard time finding a good source. Has anybody else done something similar? Do you have a source for reasonably-priced reprints?

**Tobus** · 30th June 14, 05:17 AM

For example, here are a couple of other images of posters I've found, which I might like to find prints of. But I can't seem to find anyone online that sells them. Or can't find anyone who will print them large enough to put on a wall. The last one was from a cigarette pack or deck of cards, I think, which was likely never very large to begin with. But I just love this kind of stuff, so if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them.

**sydnie7** · 30th June 14, 07:29 AM

You've been here, I assume?

Fun idea and nicely done!

**StevieR** · 30th June 14, 11:12 AM

Three available from the National Museum Scotland mate. Ten quid a go - and they ship to your part of the world:

http://shop.nms.ac.uk/search.php?sea...sters&x=14&y=8

**creagdhubh** · 30th June 14, 01:03 PM

Very smart, Tobus! I collect vintage U.S. Marine Corps recruiting posters that have very similar artwork. I absolutely love the composition, colours, and overall aesthetic of each piece.

Cheers,