Tag Archives: Tom Eckersley

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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Mr Eckersley is at home

By crownfolio | Published: October 17, 2012

We bought some Tom Eckersley ephemera off eBay a while back.  Some you might be familiar with, like this exhibition catalogue. Others perhaps less so. When the envelope arrived, there were some bonus items too – some photocopies and postcards, most interestingly this one, celebrating 30 years of Iconograda. The most surprising inclusion, however, was [...]

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Highs and lows

By crownfolio | Published: October 13, 2012

So, as previously advertised, it’s time to consider the Christies London Transport Sale.  Mostly this boils down to just one thought which is that is was really very expensive, and if things carry on like this we won’t be buying very many posters in the future.  A large chunk of what sold could be put [...]

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Typewriter dream of elysian fields

By crownfolio | Published: September 20, 2012

Less eBay, more auctions today, which makes a change.  The main excitement, at least it is if you are me, is a pair of Graham Sutherland posters up for sale at Wooley and Wallis in Salisbury.  This is the catalogue image. From the text, it appears that the other poster on offer is this (image [...]

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Beware of the Swarf

By crownfolio | Published: May 10, 2012

Attic find of the year has to be awarded to RoSPA, who went into their warehouse  last year and discovered 700 old posters.  I dream of doing something like that.  Especially if it produces posters like this one. This is by Leonard Cusden from 1951, and it’s the original artwork, as is, it seems, much [...]

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