Tag Archives: bus posters

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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General Entertainments – no lemon!

By crownfolio | Published: March 26, 2012

As promised, some more of the Daphne Padden designs that she left to Oxfam. In many ways, having seen the first batch, there are no great surprises here as the range –  everything from posters to packaging design – is very similar.  But it’s still very interesting.  For example, I had no idea that she [...]

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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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Surf, psychosis and Audrey Hepburn

By crownfolio | Published: November 23, 2011

Remember I asked last week where all the traditional railway posters have gone?  Well now I know the answer: they’re all in the forthcoming Onslows Sale. Ronald Lampitt, 1948, est. £500-600 There’s no shortage of them yet, that’s for certain.  In fact, in some wierd inversion of the natural order of the world, Onslows are [...]

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Missing

By crownfolio | Published: November 1, 2011

Meet Royston Cooper. I rather wish I had, actually.  Quite a few people have contacted the blog over the last year or two about him, and they all remember an extraordinary and extrovert character. The picture was drawn by James Holland, a friend of Royston’s, in 1954, and was very  kindly passed on by the artist’s [...]

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Travel, send, deliver

By crownfolio | Published: July 22, 2011

Please accept my apologies in advance, but Quad Royal is going to be a bit flakey for the next few weeks.  Not only is it the summer holidays, but we are apparently moving house next month too.  A normal service will resume in September, I hope. None of which is the reason for the short [...]

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