Announcing Collectionzz 10/11/2017 Poster Flash Event!

smithnic

tempo_n_groove said:

cp3iverson said:

Never knew the Munk One Antwerp poster was a tribute to a World War I event and poem. That’s amazing 

I thought the severed hand was because of the congo?

"One of the enduring images of the Free State was the severed hands which became "the most potent symbol of colonial brutality".[31] The practice was comparatively common in colonial Africa (by the Portuguese in Cabinda, for example)[30] and originated in connection with the rubber industry. "

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.