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title: 'Save, Buy for Victory: War Savings Stamps for Sale Here'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/save-buy-for-victory-war-saving-stamps-for-sale-here-1918/
description: A lettered poster with no figures pairs the words 'Save' and 'Buy' with 'for Victory' above a boxed W.S.S. panel and the line 'for sale here'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Save, Buy for Victory: War Savings Stamps for Sale Here, 1918 US poster: A lettered poster with no figures pairs the words](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-buy-for-victory-war-saving-stamps-for-sale-here-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-buy-for-victory-war-saving-stamps-for-sale-here-1918.jpg)

# Save, Buy for Victory: War Savings Stamps for Sale Here

A lettered poster with no figures pairs the words 'Save' and 'Buy' with 'for Victory' above a boxed W.S.S. panel and the line 'for sale here', for display at points of sale. The tell is the unspecific goal word 'Victory' joined to the Torch of Liberty seal and the Government's name, which carry the authority.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Save—
Buy—
for Victory

W.S.S.
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT

for sale here

[seal: THE TORCH OF LIBERTY]

[imprint line:] S5   GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE   UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT
```

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