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title: Remember to Buy Your Shell this Month with War Savings Stamps (die-cut card)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-buy-your-shell-war-savings-stamps-canada-1939/
description: A die-cut card shows a brass cartridge shell with a blue band and gold tip across a maroon panel marked 'Remember'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Remember to Buy Your Shell this Month with War Savings Stamps, 1939 Canada poster: A die-cut card shows a brass cartridge](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remember-buy-your-shell-war-savings-stamps-canada-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remember-buy-your-shell-war-savings-stamps-canada-1939.jpg)

# Remember to Buy Your Shell this Month with War Savings Stamps (die-cut card)

A die-cut card shows a brass cartridge shell with a blue band and gold tip across a maroon panel marked 'Remember', above the text '... to buy your shell this month with War Savings Stamps'. The tell is the equation of stamp purchases with buying a shell (transfer): the saver is cast as the supplier of ammunition, with no price or return stated.

## 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

```
REMEMBER

. . . . to buy your
shell this month with
WAR SAVINGS
STAMPS
```

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