Where to find a print of an old British beer ad?

December 9, 2013 3:10 PM

I recently stumbled across a fantastic ad in a book about WWII-era advertising artist Ashley Havinden. I would love to find a print of it, but even my advanced Google-fu is not providing any leads.

The poster in question. (Sorry it's blurry - I took it quickly on my phone and didn't check it til later).

I can't even find a reference to it online, though a similar poster shows up here - but not in a form I could buy a print of, and I really like the "Beer is best" part.

I also searched eBay to no avail. Does anyone have any leads on where I could find a print?

posted by lovetragedy to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

You might contact the History of Advertising Trust. he worked for Crawford's and I believe their archives are there.
posted by Ideefixe at 5:57 PM on December 9, 2013

Best answer: If you can identify that font, anyone who's halfway handy with Photoshop or Illustrator could produce a very close facsimile with very little effort.
posted by bricoleur at 7:11 PM on December 9, 2013

Response by poster: bricoleur - that's actually what ended up happening. I ran it by a friend who is trying to get better at graphic design and he whipped up something pretty close in Illustrator. There is actually a font of his handwriting - Ashley Script.
posted by lovetragedy at 10:30 PM on December 9, 2013

Cool!
posted by bricoleur at 9:10 AM on December 11, 2013