I know, it’s a tenuous link, but I was immediately struck by the simplicity of the uppercase characters and the rhythmic linespacing and justification. The incorporation paperwork for the company is dated 23rd March 1922 and states that the company was founded “to carry on business as manufacturers and dealers in stamps and dies, toys, stationers’ sundries…and articles of any description”. Nostalgia Central has a little post about the toy, introduced by a photo showing the wooden stamper.

It came with a little ink pad, tweezers, strings of rubber letters which you had to tear apart into individual letters — preparatory to losing them all!Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . The set contained 120 pieces of Monotype Gill Sans, although, rather curiously, the accompanying instruction leaflet was set almost entirely in Stephenson Blake’s rival sanserif, Granby. The Mapograph Company of Chiswick produced a roller printing system which allowed images to be applied to the pages of school exercise books.

Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Some people online have suggested they a product of the John Bull Rubber Company but the names are just a co-incidence, as the two firms logos are similar but not the same (and lets face it using the name John Bull was not rare, there was even a magazine by this name into the Fifties). Five years after the foundation of the Charter Stamp Company, in February 1927 the John Bull trademark was formally registered with the submission of artwork which would be used in packaging design for the next five decades. I used to have a John Bull printing set, which had a load of tiny rubber letters, which you would set into a wooden holder then press on an ink pad, and print out.Essential Cookies are required to make this site work, without them your browsing experience would not be as good as we want you to have. I think I used to get fed up with trying to fit the type backwards on to that stamp thing,so probably only ever printed my name ! Norman Folland, Jill Wakely Behind her Jane Merritt, Sheila Wilton, Candy Whiteman,Michele Laviers, ,Susan Collins , Jenny Went.

A few years ago I saw one John Bull Printing Outfit in possession of the Stellenbosch Children’s Museum , South Africa. The John Bull trademark was formally registered in February 1927 along with the artwork which would be used in packaging design for the next five decades.It works in the same principle of every other home letterpress kit – lots of tiny rubber squares with reversed letters raised up on the top surface. In the late 1970s costly plastic injection-moulding equipment was purchased for soft polymers, although the old vulcanised rubber system was retained for foreign language sets. Condition (used): fair for age in fair box (see below) - unsure as to completeness so what you see is what you get, it's definitely missing the leaflet, tongs and some letters but it may have an extra wooden block - the box is a little worn with some minor edge/corner wear, slight bowing, and general grubbiness and marks, the contents are generally fair with ink staining and fairly minor marks commensurate with age and use. There was a famous precedent for this, with tea importer and blender Arthur Brooke inventing a non-existent business partner—Mr. These sets, with Monotype metal types, appeared soon after the WW2 and British patents dated October 1946 cover the special typeholder required (Patent 617,495) and the custom-designed cardboard typecase (619,092).

The letterblocks have perished – they are a bit hard and dessicated and will probably not stand up to much pressure before they break.

I think you were intended to set it up once and keep on using the same message (which is what I did, I put a shortened version of my postal address on it to stamp the back of envelopes, etc) but there is no reason why you can't change it.