Explore the colourful, kooky world of advertising in the GEC Traction archive.
The GEC Traction archive contains many quirky and unusual adverts. Project volunteers Danika Willis and Ben Cudbertson pick their favourites, selected for the humour, vivid colours and graphics.
The GEC collection is not yet available to the public, however if you would like to find out more information please contact Search Engine or the GEC Project Archivist.
Sweet mother of murder I am tired of writing about these posters. I have concluded they are cursed and exist only to suck the life out of me. Bad news: Classic Hand Tools in the UK received its shipment of 50 posters. The custom box I constructed looked fine from the outside. But when they…
Before I explain the benefits of Custom Locks, let me explain the difference between custom locks and standard “Off the Shelf Locks”. When you walk into a big box hardware store and purchase a door lock or padlock, those are standard locks. When you contact a lock “Service Center” you get the opportunity to have…
Rose hip, oak leaves and acorns, sweet briar rose (eglantine) and sunflower. “With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine…” Many English misericords have a central carving with a ‘surround’ to either side. The surround may have additonal figures that add to the central theme or they may be purely decorative. Maybe because it is May and…
Editor’s note: As we wrote about in August, longtime LAP author Don Williams is writing a new book, “A Period Finisher’s Manual.” Don is a conservator, craftsman and author of many articles and several Lost Art Press books, and the maker of Mel’s Wax, a patented archival furniture care product. This post has been adapted…