Land Girl posters to go up for auction
Mint-condition posters are to go under the hammer at Wallis and Wallis in East Sussex.
A collection of posters from World War II has been valued and is to be put up for bidding at an East Sussex auction house next month. The set - which includes frames calling on wives and daughters in the UK to join the Women's Land Army, reformed in 1939 after theGreat War to replace farm hands who went off to fight - is to go under the hammer at Wallis and Wallis in Lewes, the Times reports.
Some of the pictures represent ladies working on farms, depicting beautiful women "frolicking in sun-drenched cornfields in crisp, starched shirts, full makeup and not a hair out of place",the paper observed. This, it went on, was a "far cry from the arduous reality".
It follows a recent report in the Independent stating that a series of propaganda prints from World War II - including extracts from some of Winston Churchill's speeches - went for £14,950 at auction.