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title: 'A mite for Right: Buy Savings Certificates (Save & Lend through the Army Savings Association)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-a-mite-for-right-army-savings-certificates-1939/
description: A hand drops a sixpence into a slot beside a circle of bombers, battleships and tanks, with a red panel listing three Army Savings Association schemes.
section: Collection
---

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[![A mite for Right: Buy Savings Certificates, 1939 UK poster: A hand drops a sixpence into a slot beside a circle of bombers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-a-mite-for-right-army-savings-certificates-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-a-mite-for-right-army-savings-certificates-1939.jpg)

# A mite for Right: Buy Savings Certificates (Save & Lend through the Army Savings Association)

A hand drops a sixpence into a slot beside a circle of bombers, battleships and tanks, with a red panel listing three Army Savings Association schemes. The aircraft, ships and tanks lend the weapons' prestige to the small coin (transfer), and the headline 'A mite for Right' frames saving as a virtuous cause without defining it (glittering generality).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
A mite for Right

SAVE & LEND
THROUGH
THE ARMY SAVINGS
ASSOCIATION
THREE SCHEMES ARE
AVAILABLE:
1. Allotment of Pay
2. Sixpenny Savings Stamps
3. Book-keeping Scheme
Ask for particulars
at Pay Parade

Buy
SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

H.M.F. 8 Issued by the National Savings Committee, London
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by [illegible] Ltd., London, W.C.1. 51-786
```

[← 80% of Great Britain's Total Military Production Is Being Shipped Overseas](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-80-percent-military-production-shipped-overseas-1939/) [A Pound Lent is Worth Two Spent! Stick to National Savings Certificates →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-a-pound-lent-is-worth-two-spent-1939/)

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