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Jeremiah Rotherham & Co. Ltd. was a retail and wholesale draper in Shoreditch, London. The shop in Shoreditch High Street evolved into a department store that sold a wide range of textile products, carpets, silks, ribbons, and artificial flowers. The store was bombed and destroyed during the Second World War.
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Jeremiah Rotherham & Co., Shoreditch High Street, 1894
By Mark Matlach
In the era of 2d commercial overprints, the Rotherham patterns had very subtle differences in font and spacing:
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