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title: Save Milk Bottle Caps and Hand Them to Your Milkman
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-save-milk-bottle-caps-1939/
description: A narrow strip poster in green lettering reads 'Save milk bottle caps and hand them to your milkman'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Save Milk Bottle Caps and Hand Them to Your Milkman, 1939 UK poster: A narrow strip poster in green lettering reads 'Save](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-save-milk-bottle-caps-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-save-milk-bottle-caps-1939.jpg)

# Save Milk Bottle Caps and Hand Them to Your Milkman

A narrow strip poster in green lettering reads 'Save milk bottle caps and hand them to your milkman'. It is a direct salvage instruction with no image; the nearest technique is plain folks, since the request is framed as an ordinary household act with the milkman as the collection point, and no argument or appeal is made.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SAVE MILK BOTTLE CAPS AND
HAND THEM TO YOUR MILKMAN

[imprint, partly legible:] ... FOSH & CROSS LTD.
```

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