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Advertising Poster Outposts of Empire Ceylon Sri Lanka - Original vintage advertising poster published by the GPO General Post Office for schools to promote the extensive reach of its postal services - Outposts of Empire Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Colourful illustration by the Australian artist John Vickery (1906-1983) depicting a postman with a grey beard wearing a beige uniform jacket and carrying a mail bag over his shoulder, looking to the viewer, with people by the Receiving Post Office building in the background and palm trees against a blue sky with the stylised text and GPO crown logo in the white border below. Horizontal. Excellent condition. Country of issue: UK, designer: John Vickery, size (cm): 51x63.5, year of printing: 1937.