Tag Archives: McKnight Kauffer

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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Ashley Appeal

By crownfolio | Published: March 9, 2012

Today’s Friday special – and it is quite special – is brought to you by Ashley Havinden. Unfortunately, the interior of the magazine finds it hard to live up to that cover.  For a start, it is mostly in black and white – this is one of the few other bits of colour. What’s more [...]

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Continuation

By crownfolio | Published: November 28, 2011

So, time for another attempt at reaching the summit of the Onslows auction.  There was certainly a fair amount left out of my last post.  Not least this Lander poster, which I am contractually obliged to reproduce on the blog once every few months. Eric Lander, est. £700-1,000 This time it gets in because of [...]

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Blue Sky Thinking

By crownfolio | Published: November 7, 2011

I could really do with a good auction now.  Even though we don’t have the wall space for anything else and probably would end up buying next to nothing, I’d still enjoy the excitement.  So, after Swann Galleries emailed to say that they had a wonderful set of London Transport posters in their forthcoming auctions, [...]

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Auction fever (or not)

By crownfolio | Published: October 14, 2011

The next Christies poster sale is upon us; the lots are online, the printed catalogue is sitting on my desk.  But I’ve been avoiding writing about it for the last few days, mainly because I can’t work up much enthusiasm for what’s on offer. This, if I am pushed, is probably the best of the [...]

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In another place

By crownfolio | Published: September 22, 2011

I keep trying to contemplate posters, but my brain isn’t complying and wants to think about archaeology instead.  So, for one day only, the stone circles of Wiltshire as represented in graphic design.  Only on Quad Royal. Although our first offering isn’t all that. Despite the fact that it’s in the collections of both the [...]

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