'national Service' 1917 Septimus Scott Large Recruitment Poster

'National Service. Defend your island from the grimmest menace that ever threatened it', c.1917, colour lithograph poster, very good condition, 
 A full-length depiction of Britannia, her left arm outstretched, and bearing the Union Jack flag in her right hand. A large crowd of male civilians follows in her wake. The smaller image is of the 'National Service' emblem, featuring a full-length depiction of Winged Victory holding a shield. text: NATIONAL SERVICE VICTORY N S INDUSTRIAL ARMY 1917. Septimus E Scott Defend your island from the grimmest menace that ever threatened it. - DAVID LLOYD GEORGE. Every man from 18 to 61 should ENROL TO-DAY Forms for offer of Services may be had at all Post Offices, National Service Offices and Employment Exchanges. SERIES B8 D.A. and S. LD. LONDON Height 1020 mm Width 764 mm   This is A0 sized and best delivered FLAT due to paper type used some slight age toning to the paper minor edge nicks a few mm but definitely not fitting in a letter box Packaging alone on this will be considerable so way cheaper collected . I can do rolled if wanted ask as cheaper Shown in an AO sized sleeve. This can export but for additional cost and tubed as over the 1 metre. I can get a flat price

Creases from storage years ago/paper toning but still has margins !Stunning and rare

Septimus Edwin Scott (1879-1962), who signed his name Sep E. Scott, was a British painter, illustrator and comics artist.He was born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, on 19 March 1879, and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. By 1903 he was exhibiting his landscape and portrait paintings at the Royal Academy. He was elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1919, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1920 and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1927. During the First World War he painted propaganda posters for the Ministry of Munitions, and from the 1920s he worked in advertising, painting posters for Lifebuoy soap, Mars chocolate bars and Players cigarettes, among many other products. His art was probably most widely known through railway company posters