Undated

On 16th July, Bloomsbury are holding their Poster Sale, in what I’m hoping will be the last auction for a while – I say this mainly because I want to write about other things for a chance. I’m not so jaded that I am going to do this, but I am aware that I could […]

This is not a poster

Or is it? It certainly claims to be a poster, as one of the set commissioned for the 2012 Olympics, in this case designed by Chris Ofili. Rather against my will, I have to consider these on an almost daily basis, because a selection are on display in a shop window just a couple of […]

Lofty finds

Mr Crownfolio and I are about to put an offer in on a house without an attic.  This is quite annoying, because it rather ruins our chances of finding a fantastic cache of posters in there.  After the recent set of coach posters, another seller on eBay is profiting from their attic.  Only this time […]

Chaps like you

A bit of a miscellany today, of which the most notable items are these. They’re a pair of 1940s government information posters, but what makes them different is that they’re not wartime posters but date, I am reasonably sure, from just after the war. The message is certainly right for the times.  World War Two […]

A post of a copy

Or indeed a copy of a post.  Because the post I’ve pulled from the archives today is indeed all about reproduction.  The subject came up again in the comments here recently, so I thought it might be interesting to revisit this. The eBay links no longer work, but the argument still applies, I hope. Exhibits […]

Mr Benjamin, is this poster a copy?

Exhibits A and B for today’s argument come from eBay. This is a London Transport poster by Abram Games from 1968. Except it also isn’t.  Here’s the description from the listing itself. “Sightsee London” by Abram Games 1968. This is an authentic LT poster printed by Sir Joseph Causton & Sons in 1971 for sale in the LT shop and […]