Tag Archives: Daphne Padden

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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Float Or Fly

By crownfolio | Published: April 11, 2012

I’ve mentioned the P&O archive before now, but I was led back to it the other day when I was on the trail of John Bainbridge.  This delightful fish is his, dating to 1953. But to my joy, I’ve discovered that they’ve added to what’s online since I was last there.  New arrivals include this [...]

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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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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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Bunny’s Dinner

By crownfolio | Published: March 15, 2012

Now here’s something I never ever thought I’d see.  Daphne Padden’s sketch book from when she was just six years old. Note period detail of LMR coal truck below. This would be a fantastic thing on its own, but what it means is that some more of Daphne Padden’s archive has turned up (with many [...]

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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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