Category Archives: eBay

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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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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On the buses

By crownfolio | Published: April 25, 2012

Last week, Mr Crownfolio and I scored that increasingly rare thing, a bargain on eBay.  Although this did involve us chancing a reasonably large sum of money on what was described as a lot of old railway posters that i got when i was turning out my grandparents old house they are at a ruff [...]

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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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Profit Margin

By crownfolio | Published: March 30, 2012

Following on from the comments on my last piece about the inexplicable gap between eBay prices and elsewhere, a couple of instructive compare and contrasts for you. Firstly, this excellent piece of sixties-iana, about which I know nothing except the rather obvious fact that it is for Pan Am. Oh, and that its current asking [...]

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File under miscellaneous

By crownfolio | Published: March 21, 2012

The email from the Swiss auction house Poster-Auctioneer announcing their latest auction has once again dropped into my mailbox.  So I flicked through page after page of foreign posters, pretty sure that none of them would appear on the blog.  Until I came to this Donald Brun and my resolution crumbled. It’s the perfect mixture of sophisticated [...]

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