Author Archives: crownfolio

Setting off

By crownfolio | Published: May 21, 2013

Small Crownfolio has just started doing sets in maths.  Turns out it’s going to come in quite handy on here too, because it’s pretty much the only way I can find to get a handle on the next Christies poster sale, which is bearing down on us like a juggernaut upon a hedgehog (translation, it’s [...]

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That’s Shell, that was

By crownfolio | Published: May 17, 2013

Look at this picture, which has just come up for sale on eBay. Now obviously no one is going to buy it, and not only because it’s on offer for the frankly ridiculous price of £23.61, but more importantly because it is being sold by people who butcher books and sell the plates.  Ought to [...]

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Miscellania

By crownfolio | Published: May 13, 2013

People keep sending me things.  Which is wonderful, but does every so often necessitate a whole post to catch up with them. First off the blocks is ‘mm’, who chipped in after the recent discussion about Harry Stevens to point out these two film posters of his which have come up on eBay. I have [...]

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Designer’s eye

By crownfolio | Published: May 8, 2013

So here I am submerged in house renovations when there are poster auctions which I need to tell you about.  First in the line, mainly because it’s in just a few days time, is the forthcoming Swann Auction of Modernist Posters. Now, with their being in New York, there are usually only one or two [...]

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Results

By crownfolio | Published: April 29, 2013

I promised a while back that’s I’d revisit the most recent Great Central Railwayana auction and see what the posters on offer actually went for.  A course of action necessitated by the fact that railwayana auctions never, it seems, publish an estimate of what they think a poster is going to sell for.  This sometimes [...]

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String Theory

By crownfolio | Published: April 23, 2013

This has recently arrived in the post, contradicting my previous assertion on here that there are no more eBay bargains to be had. Admittedly it is not an outstanding piece of graphic design history (although I quite like it) and is rather battered round the edges too.   But it’s by Lander, which is always [...]

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