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A blog for the Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain (COSGB).
Sunday, December 16, 2012
G. King and Son
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The firm of G. King and Son established themselves as glaziers in the Cathedral Close, Norwich in 1927. The firm’s founder, Dennis King, i...
D.E.R. Ltd. (Domestic Electric Rentals Ltd.)
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D. E. R. Ltd. was a TV rental company that was established in 1938 as a single shop in Twickenham, Middlesex. Radios and the earlie...
W. B. Fordham & Sons Ltd.
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W. B. Fordham of 36-40 York Road, Kings Cross, London was established in 1825. On the 7th December 1885 the company was registered, to t...
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Bullard King & Co. Ltd.
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Bullard King & Company, Limited, was founded in 1850 with a fleet of small sailing ships trading from the Thames to the Mediterranean. ...
Huntley & Palmers Ltd.
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Huntley & Palmers was founded in 1822 by Joseph Huntley as J. Huntley & Son. Initially the business was a small biscuit baker a...
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Crescens Robinson & Co.
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Robinson was a member of an entrepreneurial family that had interests in paper-making and printing in Bristol and London and in a wide range...
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Brentnall & Cleland Ltd.
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In 1883, Gervase Stanley Brentnall moved from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire to London. Together with his cousin John Henry Cleland, they boug...
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