Tag Archives: Barbara Jones

Woof Woof

By crownfolio | Published: April 1, 2011

So, why, you may be wondering, am I bothering you with 1950s children’s ephemera today?  Evocative and delightful, to be sure, but what’s the reason for its being here? Here’s a clue. The roundabout and its flying fairground horses have turned up before on here.  And in each case they are the work of Barbara [...]

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Going, gone

By crownfolio | Published: February 9, 2011

So it’s back to work after the birthday festivities, which today means a brief round-up of eBay and auction news.  Such as there is. Thebasement101 seems to have an almost inexhaustible stock of slightly obscure London Transport posters backed on linen.  He has put another three up for sale this week, of which my favourite [...]

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Now we are one

By crownfolio | Published: February 7, 2011

To my surprise, Quad Royal is a year old this week.  So happy birthday to us.  Now I am not going to write a long and self-congratulatory post, but we will be waving a few flags, as there are a couple of things which do need to be said. First and foremost is a thank [...]

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Que savez vous de la Grande Bretagne?

By crownfolio | Published: January 31, 2011

I got some lovely photographs by email before Christmas (so thank you Adrian Jeffery) and to my shame, what with one thing and another, rather left them to one side.  But now I am here to make amends. Because this is a fabulous thing. It’s the brochure for the British pavillion at the 1958 Brussels [...]

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Bookish

By crownfolio | Published: January 12, 2011

I have a vast and overwhelming list of books that are owed a blog post, everything from copyright to Empire and GPO posters.  I know I ought to be tackling the backlog, but ought is such a dreary word, especially when I could tell you all about my Christmas presents instead.  Because I had the [...]

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As seen previously

By crownfolio | Published: November 30, 2010

Just  a quick note to point out two rather lovely things for sale, both of which have been mentioned here in the past. One is the wonderful Design for Death by the equally wonderful Barbara Jones, which has appeared on eBay for a very reasonable £20. And on a Buy It Now, at that.  I [...]

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