COSGB
A blog for the Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain (COSGB).
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Aspro Limited
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The outbreak of the First World War caused the supply of aspirin from Germany to Australia to be cut off. In 1915 the Australian governme...
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Robert Varvill
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The Varvill family were a major player in the plane and tool making industry of 19th century England. The company was established in 1793 in...
Sunday, January 5, 2014
R. E. Davies Landport Drapery Bazaar
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Robert Edmund Davies was a well-known and distinguished businessman in Portsmouth who was three times mayor of the city in the 1860s and 187...
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Rose Kia-Ora
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In 1867 a Scotsman by the name of Lauchlan Rose patented the method used to preserve citrus juice without alcohol. A year later he establ...
Saturday, December 14, 2013
W. & G. Brown
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W. & G. Brown was a flour miller and manufacturer and supplier of cereals, established in 1812 in Derby where the company had a flour mi...
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Pellatt & Co.
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Pellatt & Co. was a glass manufacturing company established in London in 1802 by Apsley Pellatt and James Green under the name Pellatt ...
J. W. & Co. and J W E R
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J. W. & Co. Ltd. (John Wright & Co. Ltd.) and J W E R (John Wright & Eagle Range Ltd.) John Wright & Co. was a manufactu...
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