--- title: 4 War Savings Stamps Buy One 20mm Shell url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ca-4-war-savings-stamps-buy-one-20mm-shell-1939/ description: A hanging counter card shows a 20mm cartridge above the text '4 War Savings Stamps buy one 20mm shell'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. 4 War Savings Stamps Buy One 20mm Shell [![4 War Savings Stamps Buy One 20mm Shell, 1939 Canada poster: A hanging counter card shows a 20mm cartridge above the text '4](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ca-4-war-savings-stamps-buy-one-20mm-shell-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ca-4-war-savings-stamps-buy-one-20mm-shell-1939.jpg) # 4 War Savings Stamps Buy One 20mm Shell A hanging counter card shows a 20mm cartridge above the text '4 War Savings Stamps buy one 20mm shell'. It is mainly an instructional price statement; the closest technique is transfer, linking a small stamp purchase to a named item of ammunition. The poster itself makes no further claim. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 4 WAR SAVINGS STAMPS BUY ONE 20 MM SHELL ``` [← Buy War Savings Stamps Every Friday (soldier portrait, artist Rex Woods)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/buy-war-savings-stamps-every-friday-rex-woods-canada-1939/) [Achetons Plus de Certificats d'Épargne de Guerre - Protégeons-nous →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ca-achetons-plus-certificats-epargne-guerre-1939/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)