British post war posters and graphics.
A brief post today, simply to share something which came in via email this week. It’s an original piece of artwork by Stan Krol, designed to advertise Iced Tea (at least there’s a piece of paper pasted on the back, saying Iced Tea, so that seems like a reasonable assumption). Now as I have said […]
So much has actually arrived here at Quad Royal over the last few weeks that I couldn’t fit it all into one post. Which means that it’s back to the mailbox again today. At the start of the summer I posted about Stan Krol, mostly along the lines of how little I knew about him. […]
We bought this quite a while ago, but only recently got round to photographing it. It’s by Stan Krol, and thanks to the BMPA and their lovely online catalogue I can tell you that it’s from March 1966. A date that slightly surprised me as I would have had it down as late 1950s had […]
My initial thought when I first looked at the new Onslow’s catalogue a few weeks ago was that someone had better ring the BPMA, because they’ve been burgled. Then I read the auction blurb more closely, and of course it says including duplicates from the British Postal Museum & Archive Collection Panic over. What they […]
The recent announcement from the British Postal Museum and Archive announcing that they have upgraded their online catalogue may not have been the most retweeted 140 characters in the history of Twitter. But the news is actually quite exciting. On an entirely practical level the images are now larger than a postage stamp. The particular joy of this is that I can […]
Last year, RoSPA – the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents – did what most of us probably will only ever dream of, and discovered a whole cache of their old health and safety posters and artwork just sitting in a warehouse. I wrote about it at the time when they first displayed the […]