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Krol to be kind

By crownfolio | Published: May 17, 2012

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 [...]

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D I Y Barbara Jones

By crownfolio | Published: May 14, 2012

Barbara Jones is becoming increasingly collectable.  At least that’s the message I’m getting from eBay.  We recently watched a whole collection of BBC schools booklets go past; most went for one or two pounds if they sold at all.  The one exception was this. By Barbara Jones, it sold for £21.50. All of which preamble [...]

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Beware of the Swarf

By crownfolio | Published: May 10, 2012

Attic find of the year has to be awarded to RoSPA, who went into their warehouse  last year and discovered 700 old posters.  I dream of doing something like that.  Especially if it produces posters like this one. This is by Leonard Cusden from 1951, and it’s the original artwork, as is, it seems, much [...]

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The book of the website

By crownfolio | Published: May 8, 2012

Well, nearly. But I have written a book, for the very lovely Shire Publications, about World War Two Home Front posters, and my preview copy arrived in the post just before the weekend. Should you wish,  you can pre-order it on Amazon right now.  Which of course you would very much want to do because [...]

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The People Bring Much More Than Enough For The Service Of The Work

By crownfolio | Published: May 4, 2012

I’m back with the Empire Marketing Board posters once again.  In particular this one, which neatly encapsulates the problem of Empire in a single image. I rather doubt that it was intended to give exactly that message; nonetheless it is rather brilliant. This treat comes from a wholly new archive of Empire Marketing Board output [...]

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Cheap and Expensive

By crownfolio | Published: May 3, 2012

Bonus extra blog post today (although I can’t type very well at the moment because my fingers are freezing).  I was going to put the eBay news on the end of yesterday’s post, but then it turned out that there was quite a lot on offer.  So now they have a post of their own [...]

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