Tag Archives: Henrion

That’s Shell, that was

By crownfolio | Published: October 27, 2010

I really wish I hadn’t started this post now.  It was meant to be a simple one about stuff on eBay, and now it’s gone and turned into a mystery. The beginning was this poster, which ended two days ago.  Along with a confession. Which is that I didn’t actually mention it while it was [...]

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Ahead of his time

By crownfolio | Published: September 17, 2010

This may be the only blog post I ever write in praise of estate agents, particularly as we’re thinking of selling our house and so will be dealing with them on a regular basis.  But here goes. We had one round today for a look, and he was clearly a very nice man because he [...]

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Sepsis, fuel and dark beer

By crownfolio | Published: June 18, 2010

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, the Onslows catalogue is now up and complete – eighteen lovely pages of posters for you to look at it, and all of which you can bid for via the internet. So with the sale less than two weeks away, I thought I’d better take a proper [...]

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Mr Benjamin, is this poster a copy?

By crownfolio | Published: May 13, 2010

Exhibits A and B for today’s argument come from eBay. This is a London Transport poster by Abram Games from 1968. Except it also isn’t.  Here’s the description from the listing itself. “Sightsee London” by Abram Games 1968. This is an authentic LT poster printed by Sir Joseph Causton & Sons in 1971 for sale in the LT shop and [...]

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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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Life (and design) During Wartime

By crownfolio | Published: March 15, 2010

Just because posters were produced at a time when some of the very best designers were working, it doesn’t mean that they were all great design, or even interesting.  This thought was brought on by a collection of posters on sale in Lewes next week. The idea – 20 lots of wartime and post-war HMSO [...]

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