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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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When did I last see this poster?

By crownfolio | Published: April 19, 2012

I don’t know.  Two weeks off for the Easter holidays, lots of racing around and then I come back and discover that I can’t remember what on earth I meant to say about posters before I went.  Well there is something about the S.S. Canberra, but frankly that all looks a bit complicated for today, [...]

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Proper Gander

By crownfolio | Published: April 17, 2012

An auction in Connneticut has this listed as a propaganda poster. Which is clearly bonkers, even if it was produced in 1938.  At the same time though I find the idea intriguing.  Is it propaganda for trees, for the Chilterns or just for the subtle arts of Britishness?  Or are all London Transport posters in [...]

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Stamp stamp

By crownfolio | Published: April 2, 2012

Truly I have taken leave of my sense, because I have bought a presentation pack of stamps. Now under any other circumstances this would be the piece of ephemera too far and you would be at complete liberty to laugh and point at me.  Except it looks like this. Rather good, isn’t it? These are [...]

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General Entertainments – no lemon!

By crownfolio | Published: March 26, 2012

As promised, some more of the Daphne Padden designs that she left to Oxfam. In many ways, having seen the first batch, there are no great surprises here as the range –  everything from posters to packaging design – is very similar.  But it’s still very interesting.  For example, I had no idea that she [...]

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