Monthly Archives: March 2012

Profit Margin

By crownfolio | Published: March 30, 2012

Following on from the comments on my last piece about the inexplicable gap between eBay prices and elsewhere, a couple of instructive compare and contrasts for you. Firstly, this excellent piece of sixties-iana, about which I know nothing except the rather obvious fact that it is for Pan Am. Oh, and that its current asking [...]

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Informative

By crownfolio | Published: March 28, 2012

Today’s post is crowdsourcing, Quad Royal style, because lots of very kind people have been sending me links to posters on sale or sold recently.  So the least I can do, of course, is share them. The first, and following on nicely from my last post, is this Daphne Padden poster for British Railways, which [...]

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General Entertainments – no lemon!

By crownfolio | Published: March 26, 2012

As promised, some more of the Daphne Padden designs that she left to Oxfam. In many ways, having seen the first batch, there are no great surprises here as the range –  everything from posters to packaging design – is very similar.  But it’s still very interesting.  For example, I had no idea that she [...]

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Things

By crownfolio | Published: March 23, 2012

Which lead on to other things.  Like this greetings telegram. It came from the local ‘Antiques and Collectors’ (i.e. 1970s cookery books, artificial flowers and old tools) market just near me.  A rare gem in amonst the flotsam, then. Its main story – and why this telegram exists at all – is that it was [...]

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File under miscellaneous

By crownfolio | Published: March 21, 2012

The email from the Swiss auction house Poster-Auctioneer announcing their latest auction has once again dropped into my mailbox.  So I flicked through page after page of foreign posters, pretty sure that none of them would appear on the blog.  Until I came to this Donald Brun and my resolution crumbled. It’s the perfect mixture of sophisticated [...]

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retromonochrome

By crownfolio | Published: March 19, 2012

A slight digression today, but as I shall be producing a wide range of 1950s graphics to support my case, I think it’s probably allowable. For the last few months I’ve been writing a small book for Shire about 1950s Modern, looking at all the different ways that being modern was expressed in the design [...]

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