Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: It's a poster my husband found in the trash.

And he brought it home and he put it up on the wall in his office.

He was in the army for five years.

APPRAISER: Amazing what people find in the garbage.

GUEST: I'm telling ya.

APPRAISER: Like, it's really awesome.

So this is a U.S. Army recruiting poster.

APPRAISER: To my eyes, it dates to about the 1950s.

GUEST: Really?

APPRAISER: And I say that because the rather sexist, uh, slogan Job for a Man" seems to have been used by the army in the early 1950s.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Touch this.

Feel that right there.

That face has been collaged on.

GUEST: Oh!

Oh!

APPRAISER: So they're covering some... and it's the whole face.

It goes around like this.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: So when I first saw this, I actually thought it was a painting.

And I was like, wow, that's really neat.

This local recruiting station must have done this painting.

But then I looked it up online and I actually found one other copy of almost exactly the same image, except the face is a little bit different.

So now what I believe this is, is a stencil that would have been used at various recruiting stations.

Very few of them have survived.

GUEST: Huh.

APPRAISER: I think for someone who collects military propaganda, something this unusual, you could expect it to sell in the $600 to $900 range.

GUEST: Really?

APPRAISER: Wow.

Cool.

I'll have to tell my husband.

He'll be thrilled.