COSGB
A blog for the Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain (COSGB).
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Welch & Sons
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Welch & Sons was a straw hat manufacturing company established in the early 1800s. The company had a hat factory in the Bedfordshire t...
The London Joint Stock Bank Ltd.
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Joint stock banking effectively started in 1826. Private banks had been the major force in English banking throughout the 18th Century and...
Swiss Bank Corporation
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Swiss Bank Corporation was a large integrated financial services company located in Switzerland. Prior to its merger, the bank was the thi...
C. C. Wakefield and Co.
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Founded on 19 March 1899 by Charles Cheers Wakefield in London, and originally named the Wakefield Oil Company. In 1909, the company ...
Sunday, November 18, 2012
T. & W. Farmiloe Ltd.
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T. & W. Farmiloe Ltd. was a glass, lead, paint and sanitary ware manufacturing company in Westminster, London. In the 1840s, two bro...
R. Whytock & Co.
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R. Whytock & Co. was a carpet manufacturing company established by Richard Whytock in 1807 at 9/11 George Street, Edinburgh. The orig...
Sunday, November 11, 2012
P. Phipps & Co. Limited
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The brewing company of P. Phipps & Co. was established by Pickering Phipps in the West Northamptonshire town of Towcester in 1801. A...
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