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title: 'The Small Holding with the BIG Interest: National Savings Stamps'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-small-holding-big-interest-savings-stamps-1939/
description: An aerial view of a smallholding with a cottage, orchard, pigs, vegetable rows and haystack, in which a 5s. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# The Small Holding with the BIG Interest: National Savings Stamps

An aerial view of a smallholding with a cottage, orchard, pigs, vegetable rows and haystack, in which a 5s. National Savings stamp with a royal crown forms the main field. The 'transfer' tell is the stamp laid in as the land itself, tying the Crown's savings scheme to the farm's yield; the headline plays on 'interest' as a return on saving.

## 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

```
The Small holding
with the BIG interest

5/-  5/-
NATIONAL SAVINGS

BUY 5/-
2/6 & 6d
NATIONAL
SAVINGS STAMPS

W.F.P. 248. Issued by the National Savings Committee, London; Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh and the Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast.
51-2870
```

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