This week, Ebay seems mostly to be selling oddities. And the oddest of the odd has to be this, a redacted Daphne Padden poster for £9.99. It would be rather nice if they hadn’t done that, would...
It’s taken two years, but finally I can report on another Morphet’s sale. Sadly this is not another great poster extravaganza, but still worth your time and attention. Shall we take this ...
Despite my promises, a normal service will not be operating today either, because it’s all be a bit exciting down here in the sticks. Yesterday we had both the Olympic torch and Jubilee picnic,...
I’ve tried to write a sensible blog post today, I really have, but my brain just isn’t co-operating. So my thoughts on Catherine Flood’s British Posters: Advertising, Art and Activi...
Mr Crownfolio and I are about to put an offer in on a house without an attic. This is quite annoying, because it rather ruins our chances of finding a fantastic cache of posters in there. After the r...
We bought this quite a while ago, but only recently got round to photographing it. It’s by Stan Krol, and thanks to the BMPA and their lovely online catalogue I can tell you that it’s fro...
Barbara Jones is becoming increasingly collectable. At least that’s the message I’m getting from eBay. We recently watched a whole collection of BBC schools booklets go past; most went fo...
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...
Well, nearly. But I have written a book, for the very lovely Shire Publications, about World War Two Home Front posters, and my preview copy arrived in the post just before the weekend. Should you wi...
I’m back with the Empire Marketing Board posters once again. In particular this one, which neatly encapsulates the problem of Empire in a single image. I rather doubt that it was intended to gi...
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 t...
Watch out, there are auctions about. Admittedly not the poster extravaganzas which are Christies and Van Sabben, but auctions nonetheless. First under the microscope is GWRA in Leamington on May 19th...
Apologies for not posting on Friday, but I got rather absorbed in back-office stuff here at the blog and then suddenly the day was gone. All of which means that the auction in which this appeared has...
Last week, Mr Crownfolio and I scored that increasingly rare thing, a bargain on eBay. Although this did involve us chancing a reasonably large sum of money on what was described as a lot of old rail...
A recent acquisition on eBay was a few copies of Modern Publicity from the late 1950s and early 1960s. I was going to share their delights with you anyway, but when I looked into the archives I reali...
I don’t know. Two weeks off for the Easter holidays, lots of racing around and then I come back and discover that I can’t remember what on earth I meant to say about posters before I wen...
An auction in Connneticut has this listed as a propaganda poster. Which is clearly bonkers, even if it was produced in 1938. At the same time though I find the idea intriguing. Is it propaganda for...
This is the list of all Penguin books in stock or due to be printed in 1958. Mr Crownfolio is minded to start collecting Penguin ephemera. He may have a point.
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&...
In a slightly incongruous justaposition, the severe lines of London Transport photo-modernism bring you… …baa lambs (courtesy of the London Transport Museum). Happy Easter.
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...
Truly I have taken leave of my sense, because I have bought a presentation pack of stamps. Now under any other circumstances this would be the piece of ephemera too far and you would be at complete l...
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 s...
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 the...
As promised, some more of the Daphne Padden designs that she left to Oxfam. In many ways, having seen the first batch, there are no great surprises here as the range – everything from posters ...
Which lead on to other things. Like this greetings telegram. It came from the local ‘Antiques and Collectors’ (i.e. 1970s cookery books, artificial flowers and old tools) market just nea...
The email from the Swiss auction house Poster-Auctioneer announcing their latest auction has once again dropped into my mailbox. So I flicked through page after page of foreign posters, pretty sure ...
A slight digression today, but as I shall be producing a wide range of 1950s graphics to support my case, I think it’s probably allowable. For the last few months I’ve been writing a smal...
We used to go to Midcentury at Dulwich before we left London to go west, but that’s a long time ago now, and they certainly didn’t sell any posters at it then. But now they definitely do...
Now here’s something I never ever thought I’d see. Daphne Padden’s sketch book from when she was just six years old. Note period detail of LMR coal truck below. This would be a fan...
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