Portugal e a Gran Bretanha apertam as suas mãos de antigos aliados (Portugal and Great Britain Clasp Hands, Old Allies)
A colour postcard in which a British and a Portuguese soldier in pith helmets shake hands between massed Union Jacks on the left and a large Portuguese flag on the right, under portrait medallions of George V and, on the Portuguese side, a white-moustached civilian identified by Commons as President Bernardino Machado, either side of the two coats of arms. The tell is the stacking of royal arms, flags and heads of state around the handshake, which lends the ancient Anglo-Portuguese alliance's prestige to Portugal's war effort.
- Date
- June 20, 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Portuguese wartime postcard (publisher and artist not named); sent by Luís Barreto to the diplomat João Chagas in Paris
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Portuguese Republic
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Afonso Costa Government
- Leader
- Afonso Costa
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from the Portugal 1914-1918 portal, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- US public domain (anonymous postcard of 1917, PD-old-100 on Commons); portal reserves rights in its scan
Anonymous postcard, Portugal, 1917, from the Portugal 1914-1918 portal (IHC-NOVA FCSH), via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
PORTUGAL E A GRAN BRETANHA APERTAM AS SUAS MÃOS DE ANTIGOS ALIADOS [on the British royal arms:] DIEU ET MON DROIT [partly legible]
PORTUGAL AND GREAT BRITAIN CLASP THEIR HANDS OF OLD ALLIES [on the British royal arms:] DIEU ET MON DROIT [partly legible]
