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To war, again

By crownfolio | Published: June 4, 2010

It’s auctions a-go-go this week.  And the next on our list is yet another tranche of World War Two posters for Wallis and Wallis down in darkest Sussex, to be sold on Tuesday. I’m rather reluctant to deal with what’s on offer this time round  (61 lots, a good hundred posters at a guess) because [...]

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If you have to ask, you can’t afford it

By crownfolio | Published: April 28, 2010

Often, I end up writing about posters on here that I, for one, can’t afford.  Like the Royston Cooper Hastings that I mentioned last week, which is fantastic, but at £1000 a pop, I’m probably never going to own it.  I’ve always rather fancied this 1951 Abram Games design too. But as it was last [...]

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By coach, via Royston

By crownfolio | Published: April 23, 2010

I was planning to do a random image amnesty today, which would have been a collection of fabulous posters that I have picked up but not managed to jemmy into a blog post, and which are all now idly shuffling their feet in the great image waiting room which is my computer desktop. Except I’m [...]

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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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Market failure?

By crownfolio | Published: March 9, 2010

At the end of last year, MrCrownfolio and I made some enquiries about selling some posters at Christies.  We have done this before, although the combination of something being good enough quality and us wanting to get rid of it doesn’t come round that often.  But, as will become apparent, it’s unlikely ever to happen [...]

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