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AP Again

By crownfolio | Published: August 17, 2011

As the piles of boxes grow around me, here are some more Artist Partners delights from the archives. Today, a second helping of the AP2 Artists Partners book.  (Is it a brochure?  a catalogue?  I’m not entirely sure how to address it). I ran through a few of the obvious highlights by the big names [...]

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Redirection

By crownfolio | Published: July 7, 2011

The British Postal Museum and Archive have changed their website.  Now I know that this may not count as the most earth-shattering information you have ever received, but from where I am standing it’s good news indeed.  And when my old bookmark retrieves their new website, I am perhaps appropriately now greeted with this, which [...]

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RIP COI

By crownfolio | Published: June 29, 2011

So the Central Office of Information is to be no more (news here in the Guardian).  This is a sad end because once upon a time they produced some rather wonderful posters.  Here’s a handy thought from them for this time of the year. Coincidentally, I reccently bought a history of the COI from Abebooks. [...]

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Recent Acquisitions

By crownfolio | Published: June 24, 2011

In the days when I used to be in the V&A, which is quite some time ago, each department used to have cases where they displayed recently bought objects, before they found their place in the main collection, with a small paper sign in which read Recent Acquisitions.  A friend of mine got hold of [...]

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Modern selling

By crownfolio | Published: April 13, 2011

The auction season really is upon us; no sooner do I promise you the Christies highlights, than the Swann Galleries catalogue also pops into my email box.  And to my surprise, the American auction is, I think, the winner.  But let’s take a quick canter through both of them, and then you can make up [...]

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life : henrion : rabbit

By crownfolio | Published: April 6, 2011

I called up this book out of our library’s reserve stores the other day (you can easily enough find it on Amazon if your library isn’t so obliging). It’s from 1972, so I wasn’t hoping for too much from it, but actually I was surprised.  There’s a short introductory essay, but then the bulk of [...]

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