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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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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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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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Informative

By crownfolio | Published: March 28, 2012

Today’s post is crowdsourcing, Quad Royal style, because lots of very kind people have been sending me links to posters on sale or sold recently.  So the least I can do, of course, is share them. The first, and following on nicely from my last post, is this Daphne Padden poster for British Railways, which [...]

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