"Telling me that the stuff's not worth having any more doesn't get us home!"

Horse-racing Pound Sterling Devaluation original cartoon artwork

(24 June 1972: The Government allowed the pound to float freely against other currencies, after a week of heavy speculation against sterling. In London and many other centres foreign exchange markets were closed, and would not open until Tuesday. The Treasury announced that exchange controls were being extended to sterling area investment.)

Size 39cm x 20cm

Medium Pen and ink, half-tone tint on artboard

Publication The News of the World

Published 25 June 1972