Category Archives: eBay

Ashley Appeal

By crownfolio | Published: March 9, 2012

Today’s Friday special – and it is quite special – is brought to you by Ashley Havinden. Unfortunately, the interior of the magazine finds it hard to live up to that cover.  For a start, it is mostly in black and white – this is one of the few other bits of colour. What’s more [...]

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King listing

By crownfolio | Published: February 28, 2012

All I seem to do at the moment on this blog is write about eBay.  In part this is because I’ve got my head thoroughly stuck into writing a book instead, and so there isn’t much mental bandwidth left for thinking about posters.  (A normal service will be resumed in due course, I promise).  But [...]

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Without linen on backside

By crownfolio | Published: February 24, 2012

At last.  I’ve been banging on about PosterConnection’s shop on eBay for quite a while now – its selection is enough to persuade me to be interested in foreign posters every so often.  Now, finally, they are also selling some British designs.  And good ones too.  Pick of the pops has to be this Daphne [...]

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Oh my ears and whiskers

By crownfolio | Published: February 22, 2012

See that poster?  That’s me right now, so apologies if posting gets a bit erratic for the next week or two. If you like what you see, it’s for sale on eBay at the moment, courtesy of PosterConnection.  They’re selling some interesting things at the moment, so more about that tomorrow.  Or perhaps the day [...]

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Meet Mr Poster

By crownfolio | Published: February 13, 2012

There has definitely been a change in eBay over the last few years, at least in terms of the poster market.  When we first started watching it, most of what was up for sale wasn’t either of much quality or of much value.  Think National Savings and posters which had been damaged beyond all reasonable [...]

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Post Office Love

By crownfolio | Published: February 10, 2012

This picture arrived in the Quad Royal inbox a few weeks ago. A very lucky man called Brian Shepherd had found this trio in his loft.  They’re mounted on board, and so it seems that they’d been used as trays to store apples and pears up there in the dark.  A waste of some very [...]

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