Buy Thrift Stamps
c. 1915
Artist / Maker / Culture
Designer Unknown
DIMENSIONS
23 1/4 x 17 in. (59.1 x 43.2 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.62
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Bonds, Canada, Children, Homefront, Political, Toy, War, White, WWI
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Peter A. Blatz
KEYWORDS
Bonds, Canada, Children, Homefront, Political, Toy, War, White, WWI

In December 1918, the Canadian government introduced Thrift Stamps intended to encourage children to play a role in the post-war rebuilding of the county while saving for their own futures. This sentimental illustration shows a little girl surrounded by toys carefully pasting a thrift stamp onto her Thrift Card. Each stamp was worth 35 cents. Sixteen of these could be traded for one War Savings Stamp, worth four Canadian dollars. The logo of Canadian War Savings Stamps showing a beaver resting on top of an inverted triangle containing the letters W.S.S. appears at the lower-right corner.

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