COSGB
A blog for the Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain (COSGB).
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Waukenphast Ltd.
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Waukenphast produced cork-soled shoes for man and women in the 19th century. These shoes were available in Britain and the US. Newspaper ad ...
Dugdale Bros. & Co.
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In 1896, Henry Percy and Frederick Herbert Dugdale established their cloth merchants business in Huddersfield, the centre of Britain's f...
East Surrey Water Company
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Sutton and East Surrey Water is a water-only company that supplies customers in east Surrey and parts of west Sussex, west Kent, and south L...
Sunday, November 20, 2011
John Dickinson Stationery
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The company was founded in Apsley Hertfordshire in 1804 by John Dickinson, who invented a continuous mechanized paper-making process. In Jun...
J. Lyons & Co.
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J. Lyons & Co. was originally founded in 1887 as a spin-off from the Salmon & Gluckstein tobacco company. Joseph Nathaniel Lyons (bo...
Surridge Dawson (Holdings) Ltd.
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Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd. was established about 1809 and P. W. J. Surridge & Sons Ltd. in 1905. In 1933 the wholesale newspaper trade o...
Sunday, November 13, 2011
M. Huntbach & Co. Ltd.
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In 1876, Michael Huntbach opened a small drapery shop in Lamb Street in Hanley, Staffordshire. He was helped in the running of the store by ...
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