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Things

By crownfolio | Published: March 23, 2012

Which lead on to other things.  Like this greetings telegram. It came from the local ‘Antiques and Collectors’ (i.e. 1970s cookery books, artificial flowers and old tools) market just near me.  A rare gem in amonst the flotsam, then. Its main story – and why this telegram exists at all – is that it was [...]

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Bunny’s Dinner

By crownfolio | Published: March 15, 2012

Now here’s something I never ever thought I’d see.  Daphne Padden’s sketch book from when she was just six years old. Note period detail of LMR coal truck below. This would be a fantastic thing on its own, but what it means is that some more of Daphne Padden’s archive has turned up (with many [...]

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Exceptional

By crownfolio | Published: March 12, 2012

As the masthead suggests, Quad Royal is meant to be a blog about British graphics and design.  But I often find myself making an exception when a David Klein poster comes up in an auction I’m mentioning, mainly because they catch an optimism about the 1950s that the British tend to express more in a [...]

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Runabout

By crownfolio | Published: February 16, 2012

Mr Crownfolio has been diversifying into ephemera again.  But I can’t really complain when it’s as good as this.  And anyway, we haven’t had a nice Eckersley on the blog for a while. But this isn’t some niche piece of design for a high-end firm.  What we have here is a popular leaflet produced by [...]

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A good home

By crownfolio | Published: February 2, 2012

Earlier this week, I went to the Design Archives at the University of Brighton, to see if they wanted Daphne Padden’s archives, or at least what we had acquired of it. Fortunately they were not only very delightful but also decided they did want them, and these three images are just a few of the [...]

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The forgotten man

By crownfolio | Published: January 25, 2012

I’ve said it before, and I will no doubt get around to saying it again, but Harry Stevens is a very underestimated poster artist.  That thought is mostly provoked by this 1954 poster, which we bought a copy of recently, (although one which I have to admit is slightly more battered than this picture). It’s [...]

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