Shiny S-200 DIY Printing Kit 4mm and 5mm Character Height

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Boxes were made on site, the rubber letters were moulded and vulcanised at the factory and even the non-toxic water-based ink was brewed up in large buckets. The manufacturer’s name varies according to the age of each set and boxes sometimes carry “Charter Series”, “Carson-Baker” or “Carbak” names and logos, depending upon when they were made. If you owned the John Bull printing set, you were guaranteed to lose a few letters, no matter how careful you were. Simple arrange the letters in the little wooden grooves, press into the inkpad and well, print away!

John Bull later started doing combined sets of letters and picture stamps aimed directly at children (these sets have a three number catalogue sequence, that’s one in the picture below I found on the web). My husband Roy Balcomb founded the Databac Group in Kingston upon Thames in 1970, producing Identity Cards.the box contains over 200 rubber stamps, (it might not be all original contents there however all the alphabet and numbers complete) Three plastic frames to set stamps, a ink and a tweezers. On 10/04/1962 the number one single was Wonderful Land - The Shadows and the number one album was Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley. Surplus manufacturing capacity allowed the production of components for another maker of educational rubber stamps.

Sets were numbered from “1” to “250” with the smallest set only marginally larger than a box of kitchen matches while the largest set dwarfed a standard Monopoly game box. Invented in 1924 by Alfred Kings and Bernard Simons, the Mapograph system used a deep relief rubber stamp on a wooden roller. Bett Butterfield , Miss Crocker or Miss Evening, Harry Harrison, Joyce Pipe, Reg Davis, George Pledger, Miss Curtis, Audrey Wyspianska , Miss Richardson Fred Vince, Peter Sexton, Jill Smith, ? A foam-rubber ink pad with non-toxic, water-based ink was supplied, so the results cannot have been very satisfactory. The export market was important as a source of income, but the cost of producing new moulds for foreign territories was prohibitive.Indy 800 Atari’s first racer, the little-known 1974 game Gran Track 10, wasn’t the hit that everyone had hoped it would be. John Bull Printing Sets are among Britain’s oldest and most popular toys and the most common childhood introduction to ‘relief printing’. Check us out on social media for competitions and offers and to see the day to day life of our little world. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab .

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. I still have books that were my Dad’s, he stamped his name and address in them with the John Bull letters……Happy Days!

A boxed John Bull printing outfit set went for auction for just 5 pounds last week, so you can still pick them up for a bargain. I just gave away a box of 1950 Wireless World's bought with my pocket money as a kid, they were stamped with my name and address with my 'John Bull' printing outfit. There is documentary evidence that Charter Stamp had traded for a number of years before the creation of the 1922 company. The directors set up their head office at 57 Old Street in the City of London and spent the next five years selling stationery and making rubber stamps for office use.

The John Bull trademark was sold to Dekkertoys of Peterborough in the late 1980s, but today the famous printing sets are no longer available. The letters were in reverse, of course, as the thing worked on the letterpress principle, so you could easily mix the S or 2 with a Z So the skill for all junior printers were to make sure the letters were the right way up before print. The John Bull printing set boxes do all say ‘Made In The British Isles’ and the trade mark was registered in February 1927.Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. The company proclaimed the John Bull Printing Outfit to be 100% “Made in the British Isles” which was true: Boxes were made on-site, the rubber letters were moulded and vulcanised at the factory and even the non-toxic water-based ink was brewed up in large buckets. 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”.