COSGB
A blog for the Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain (COSGB).
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Samuel Allsopp & Sons Labels
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Samuel Allsopp & Sons labels make for a very interesting, though rather expensive, addition to a commercial overprint collection. In 1...
Brook, Freeman & Batley
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Brook, Freeman & Batley was a law firm at 47 New Street, Huddersfield from at least 1872. In 1980 the company merged with Eaton Smith ...
Croydon Local Board of Health
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The cholera pandemic of 1832 killed over 55,000 people in the UK. In London the disease claimed 6,536 victims and came to be known as “Kin...
Sunday, January 20, 2013
H. P. Bulmer & Co. Ltd.
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From its roots as a small family concern in the village of Credenhill, Hereford, H. P. Bulmer & Co. Ltd. has grown into the world'...
John Hutton & Sons
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In 1841, John Hutton and Alexander Rhind established a drapery business at 36 Mosley Street, Newcastle. Hutton & Rhind continued their...
Eason & Son Ltd.
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The company that is now Eason & Son was originally founded in 1819 as J. K. Johnston & Co., a newspaper and advertising agency bas...
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Taddy & Co.
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Taddy & Co was established in 1740 in London by James Taddy as a seller of tobacco, snuff and tea. By the end of the 19th century the ...
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