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Creator Charles Edouard Gogler
Printing year 1922
Sheet size (cm) 127×88.5
Printing technique Lithograph
Printer Säuberlin & Pfeiffer
Condition B
Asking price 1'200 CHF
Categories Plebiscites & Campaigns

The initiative «For the one-time levy on assets» launched by the Social Democrats to reduce the debts incurred during the First World War was rejected in December 1922 with a «no» vote registering 87% (!) of the valid votes.

Charles Edouard Gogler’s red claw grasping a simple peasant leaves no room for interpretation (which wouldn’t be the point…). The only known poster by the draughtsman, sculptor and former director of the Saint-Imier School of Arts and Crafts.

maybe of interest as well:
https://placart-backup.bszserver.ch/en/artwork/original-vintage-poster-cardinaux-capital-levy-no/