Tag Archives: GPO poster

Designer’s eye

By crownfolio | Published: May 8, 2013

So here I am submerged in house renovations when there are poster auctions which I need to tell you about.  First in the line, mainly because it’s in just a few days time, is the forthcoming Swann Auction of Modernist Posters. Now, with their being in New York, there are usually only one or two [...]

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String Theory

By crownfolio | Published: April 23, 2013

This has recently arrived in the post, contradicting my previous assertion on here that there are no more eBay bargains to be had. Admittedly it is not an outstanding piece of graphic design history (although I quite like it) and is rather battered round the edges too.   But it’s by Lander, which is always [...]

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Is Your Letterbox Efficient?

By crownfolio | Published: February 27, 2013

I was just thinking that it had all gone very quiet on the auction front, when what should come along but a whole auction full of posters at Bloomsbury. It’s an interesting hotch-potch with almost every form of poster you can think of represented in the mix.  So there’s foreign posters and railway posters. Raymond [...]

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Love and money

By crownfolio | Published: February 6, 2013

A proper post is brewing and will follow tomorrow, but this is just a brief appearance to let you know that all your Valentines poster needs are solved. I’ve mentioned this Dorrit Dekk poster before, and now it has appeared on eBay, not once but twice.  It ought to go really, it’s just the kind [...]

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To Sheffield, by dachshund

By crownfolio | Published: January 2, 2013

Whatever I was expecting to find in the Guardian yesterday, it certainly wasn’t this. But thank heavens for the quiet of the New Year, because it allowed them to give almost a whole page to an exhibition in Sheffield of the works of none other than Leonard Beaumont. Sadly – at least from my point [...]

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Odd and odder

By crownfolio | Published: May 28, 2012

This week, Ebay seems mostly to be selling oddities.  And the oddest of the odd has to be this, a redacted Daphne Padden poster for £9.99. It would be rather nice if they hadn’t done that, wouldn’t it? The listing does at least give a bit of provenance: we understand that this advertisement was displayed [...]

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