An archive of original British recruitment posters from the first world war is to sell at Onslows Auctions in Dorset, UK on July 9.
The posters are estimated to make around £20,000 ($33,282) in total, reports the Daily Mail.
 This poster of Lord Kitchener is among the most recognisable of the first world war |
Some 200 posters feature in the collection, ranging from the iconic to the lesser known, with the majority spanning the period between the start of the war in 1914 and 1916.
They show the change in tactics of the recruiting office as word of the ferocity of fighting on the western front reached the public.
As time passes, the tone is noticeably altered, from opportunity and excitement to grim duty.
Arthur Maxted, the consignor of the archive, told the newspaper: "The posters were collected by my maternal grandfather who worked for a printing company during the war. Sadly it is a mystery as to why he kept hold of them, as they were not of any monetary worth back then.
"My aunt passed them on to me about 30 years ago and they spent many years in my loft. It was only recently that I started to document them and realised they might be quite valuable."
We have these childhood drawings by King George V (1865-1936), the reigning British monarch during the first world war and the cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm.
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