Tag Archives: travel poster

Cheap and Expensive

By crownfolio | Published: May 3, 2012

Bonus extra blog post today (although I can’t type very well at the moment because my fingers are freezing).  I was going to put the eBay news on the end of yesterday’s post, but then it turned out that there was quite a lot on offer.  So now they have a post of their own [...]

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Float Or Fly

By crownfolio | Published: April 11, 2012

I’ve mentioned the P&O archive before now, but I was led back to it the other day when I was on the trail of John Bainbridge.  This delightful fish is his, dating to 1953. But to my joy, I’ve discovered that they’ve added to what’s online since I was last there.  New arrivals include this [...]

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Posters Produce Results

By crownfolio | Published: April 5, 2012

No arguing with that, is there. Cecilia Murphy, 1932, est. $1,700-2,000 Although for today’s post, the results we are mostly bothered about come from auctions, as all at once there is a rush of new sales on the horizon and I can hardly keep up. That poster above is included in  Poster Auction International’s May [...]

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Profit Margin

By crownfolio | Published: March 30, 2012

Following on from the comments on my last piece about the inexplicable gap between eBay prices and elsewhere, a couple of instructive compare and contrasts for you. Firstly, this excellent piece of sixties-iana, about which I know nothing except the rather obvious fact that it is for Pan Am. Oh, and that its current asking [...]

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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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Without linen on backside

By crownfolio | Published: February 24, 2012

At last.  I’ve been banging on about PosterConnection’s shop on eBay for quite a while now – its selection is enough to persuade me to be interested in foreign posters every so often.  Now, finally, they are also selling some British designs.  And good ones too.  Pick of the pops has to be this Daphne [...]

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