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Box 56: MS Add.10275

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Contains 8 Results:

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Partnership Workbook, 1975 - 1983, c 2000s-c 2010s

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/8/1
Scope and Contents A four-column Greenback analysis book that documents the various illustration commissions undertaken by Luck & Flaw, between July 1975 and 1983, with information on publication, deadline for job and fee for work. The volume has later additions, c 2000s-c 2010s, presumably written by Deirdre Amsden, noting the L+F reference numbers connected with each job. The vast majority of the volume is unused.Accompanying the volume is a file holding a five-page document of handwritten...
Dates: 1975 - 1983; c 2000s-c 2010s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Printing Plate, 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/8/3
Scope and Contents A zinc printing plate that features an image of the Margaret Thatcher 'Iron Lady' illustration (L+F/231), produced by Luck & Flaw. This illustration depicts a plasticine model of Thatcher, who is dressed in armour made of various kitchen utensils, sat on top of an overburdened horse/donkey.This image was published in 3 October 1976 issue of The Sunday Times Magazine, and later in a March 1977 edition of the Dutch magazine, ...
Dates: 1976
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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American Institute of Graphic Arts Award Certificate, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/8/4
Scope and Contents A 'Certificate of Excellence' awarded to Roger Law [and Peter Fluck] for 'The Mental Picture III Portraits,' which featured on the covers of three editions of The New York Times Magazine, between December 1975 and February 1976. Each cover had a plasticine model illustration of one of the 1976 American presidential candidates: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Wallace. Accompanying the certificate is a handwritten note from the magazine's art...
Dates: 1977
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Diary and Memo Books, 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/8/5
Scope and Contents

An A5-sized, blue hardback Dataday diary for 1979, containing Roger Law's handwriting with information on his activities for that year. Accompanying the diary are two small Silvine memo books, with red softback covers, which document expenses for business trips to Amsterdam, Hamburg and Paris. The contents of the memo books are also in Law's hand.

Dates: 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'George Grosz and Lenny Bruce: A Comparative Analysis' Thesis, 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/8/6
Scope and Contents

A ring-bound dissertation, written by Andrew Peter Robey, during the final year of his three-year course at Middlesex Polytechnic.

Robey worked for Luck & Flaw in the late 1970s, and would go on to work for Spitting Image Productions Limited.

Dates: 1980
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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PS Promotion & Productions Brochure, c 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/8/7
Scope and Contents

A PS Promotion & Productions brochure, advertising the work and services of Luck & Flaw. There are also Clouded Tiger Card postcards stapled inside the item, which feature images of some of Luck & Flaw's plasticine model illustrations. The brochure has a message from Roger Law, intended for a couple of former students he taught at Reed College, Gary Achziger and Linda Burnham. There are further annotations by Law on some of the other pages.

Dates: c 1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Private Eye Christmas Cards, c 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/8/8
Scope and Contents Two examples of a Christmas card produced by the satirical magazine, Private Eye. The front cover of this particular card features an image of a plasticine model illustration by Luck & Flaw, which depicts British politician Michael Foot as the television character Worzel Gummidge. The photographic image was taken by John Lawrence Jones.Both cards have inscriptions on the interior pages, bearing season's greetings in Roger Law's hand. One is addressed...
Dates: c 1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Fluck and Law: The Power of Caricature Expressed in a New Way' Thesis, 1983 - 1984, c 2000s-c 2010s

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/8/9
Scope and Contents

A university dissertation on Luck & Flaw, written by Andrew J. Pye, accompanied by a letter from Pye to the partnership. Also present is a piece of A4-sized lined-paper, which contains corrections on the contents of pages 10 and 11 of the thesis. These notes appear to be from a later date.

Dates: 1983 - 1984; c 2000s-c 2010s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).