Tag Archives: Edward Bawden

Up, up and away

By crownfolio | Published: May 17, 2010

Time, for a quick saunter round the Christies results.  Which were a mixed bag; some things sold, some things didn’t.  Some things sold for way over their estimate (we’ll come to those in a minute), some things for well under.    This Fred Taylor, for example, went for £250, despite an estimate of £600-800.  So [...]

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Posters, posters everywhere, but not a lot to buy

By crownfolio | Published: April 20, 2010

Well, it’s here.  For the first time under the new rules (which are, as ranted about previously, a minimum lot value of £800) it’s the Christies May vintage poster auction.  And, unsurprisingly, it’s not for me any more. There are lots of cruise posters, some French posters, a fair smattering of Olympic posters, and lots [...]

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Mr Bawden designs a railway poster

By crownfolio | Published: February 18, 2010

You’d think that the subject of the Morphet’s auction had been well and truly exhausted – it was only a poster sale after all.  But there was one more thing I wanted to say about it, and that’s Edward Bawden. I knew he’d done some rather wonderful London Transport posters before now. This one was [...]

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