Monthly Archives: March 2011

By Eck

By crownfolio | Published: March 30, 2011

Hurrah, an auction; it feels as though we haven’t had one of those for ages.  Even better, an interesting auction too.  It’s Great Central Railwayana (9 April, Stoneleigh Showground, just in case you’re in the area).  As it’s a railwayana sale, there is of course a lot of this kind of thing, here by Claude [...]

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Beck indeed

By crownfolio | Published: March 28, 2011

While I pointed out the P&O archive a while back, I also said that I wanted to come back to it.  And there’s one very good reason for doing so; his name is Richard Beck. The handful of posters that he produced for P&O are that rare thing, home-grown British modernism.  And it looks first [...]

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Save Your Bit

By crownfolio | Published: March 25, 2011

I’ve been rummaging around in the VADS picture archives again, and to my delight have discovered that the Imperial War Museum have uploaded many, many more war posters recently.  I’m not even a quarter of the way through them yet, but this set did particularly amuse me.  They start off fine, even if I don’t [...]

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Some Decorative Drawings

By crownfolio | Published: March 23, 2011

Clearly I have the willpower of a small amoeba.  I write about something on here, but then I don’t just walk away, oh no.  I only have to go and buy it.  Like,  say, Motif, which I wrote about only last week. The good news is that we didn’t get the whole set of thirteen [...]

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Death and the Poster Designer

By crownfolio | Published: March 21, 2011

I’ve always loved the smiliness of Tom Eckersley’s posters. Hastings, n/d Between the late forties and the mid 1950s, his work is filled with cheerful characters, from spoons to beach balls. Eno’s Fruit Salts, 1947 Bridlington, British Railways, 1955 And of course people. Guinness, 1956 So I was rather disappointed to discover that Eckersley himself [...]

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Sale Number

By crownfolio | Published: March 18, 2011

It’s gone a bit quieter on eBay now, which is a bit of a relief, at least it is here at Crownfolio Towers because we’ve spent a bit too much recently.  Nonetheless, there are still a few things worth reporting.  Like this, which is one of the linen-backed London Transport posters I wrote about a [...]

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