Monthly Archives: October 2012

Keeping in Touch

By crownfolio | Published: October 25, 2012

In the last post I only managed to get through about half the auctions that are out there  so today for your entertainment and edification, here is part two.  But first, a small digression.  Lest people think I have been victimising Christies over their high prices, I have to report that the problem is much [...]

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For the fun of it

By crownfolio | Published: October 22, 2012

As if the excitement of the Christies London Transport Museum sale wasn’t enough, there are now a whole slew of auctions pressing for our attention.  So many that I might not get them all into one post.  Shall we break ourselves in gently with an easy one? PosterConnection in the US tell me that they are [...]

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Uninvited

By crownfolio | Published: October 21, 2012

To my intense annoyance, the site seems to have been hacked at some point in the last few days, apologies if Quad Royal has been offline or not as you expected during this time. I think it has all been fixed, so this should be the only pharmaceutical advertisement on here now. If you see [...]

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Mr Eckersley is at home

By crownfolio | Published: October 17, 2012

We bought some Tom Eckersley ephemera off eBay a while back.  Some you might be familiar with, like this exhibition catalogue. Others perhaps less so. When the envelope arrived, there were some bonus items too – some photocopies and postcards, most interestingly this one, celebrating 30 years of Iconograda. The most surprising inclusion, however, was [...]

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Highs and lows

By crownfolio | Published: October 13, 2012

So, as previously advertised, it’s time to consider the Christies London Transport Sale.  Mostly this boils down to just one thought which is that is was really very expensive, and if things carry on like this we won’t be buying very many posters in the future.  A large chunk of what sold could be put [...]

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Where Fish Comes From

By crownfolio | Published: October 11, 2012

I need to write about the Christies’ sale and will do that tomorrow, but in the meantime I have to show you this, because it is one of the oddest posters I have come across in a long while. It’s a GWR poster by John Hassall (him of Bracing Skegness fame) and, well where to [...]

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