COSGB
A blog for the Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain (COSGB).
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Cooke, Sons & Co.
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Cooke, Sons & Co. was a carpet manufacturer established by William Peabody Cooke in Liversedge, Yorkshire in 1795. The company had spinn...
Sunday, February 16, 2014
David Evans & Co.
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David Evans & Co. was a textile printing business established in Crayford, south-east London in 1843. David Evans was already an establi...
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Christy & Co.
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Christy & Co. is a hat manufacturing company which makes men's and women's hats as well as bespoke ranges for the military an...
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...
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