• Messrs. Perkins, Bacon & Co was a printer of books, bank notes and postage stamps, most notable for printing the Penny Black, the world's first adhesive...
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    son-in-law, Joshua Butters Bacon, bought out Charles Heath and the company was then known as Perkins, Bacon. Perkins Bacon provided banknotes for many...
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    "A A" at top left to "T L" at bottom right. The sheets, printed by Perkins Bacon, consisted of 240 stamps in 20 rows of 12 columns. One full sheet cost...
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    with death in Joel Schumacher's Flatliners. In Bacon's next project he starred opposite Elizabeth Perkins in He Said, She Said. Despite lukewarm reviews...
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    Penny Black, two pence blue and the VR official were all constructed by Perkins Bacon, the printers of the first postage stamps issued in Great Britain. The...
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    British government at a lower price than the current printing firm of Perkins Bacon. The Prince Consort stamps were provided by the artist Robert Edward...
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    Royal Warrant. With Harry Nissen and Thomas Allen, Nissen purchased the Perkins Bacon records which were then acquired by The Royal Philatelic Society London...
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    stamps until 1902. While the 1d black was engraved in Great Britain by Perkins Bacon, other values, including the 4d blue, were produced by Horace Samson...
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    pattern made the stamps difficult to forge, and PB&P (known from 1852 as Perkins, Bacon & Co.) held the contract for forty years, during which time the designs...
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    colony issued 6d and 1/- stamps printed locally, from plates engraved by Perkins Bacon in England. These were large square stamps with the standard profile...
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    the Penny Red. About 21 billion Penny Reds were printed by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon & Co. The stamps were printed in sheets of 240 (20 rows of 12 stamps)...
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    Islands. A set of three stamps was issued on 15 May 1859. Printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. of London and inscribed ΙΟΝΙΚΟΝ ΚΡΑΤΟΣ (Ionian State), they depicted...
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  • Note Company 1866 1956  Finland Setec Oy 1999 2005  United Kingdom Perkins Bacon 1810 1935  United Kingdom Harrison and Sons 1750 1997  United Kingdom...
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    trial and error to achieve the required result. He decided to go with Perkins, Bacon & Petch, "a firm of bank-note printers, to carry out the work by the...
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    stamps, printed in New York City for the Canadian colonies, and by Perkins, Bacon and Company in London, were issued in many British colonies from the...
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    interests in coffee estates in Ceylon. In 1935, the printing firm of Perkins Bacon, notable for the Penny Black and numerous other issues, went out of...
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    a history and description of the star-watermarked papers of Messrs. Perkins Bacon and Co., etc. Co-Author: Francis H. Napier. London: Stanley Gibbons...
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    It was engraved by William Humphrys and printed in London in 1854 by Perkins Bacon. The later values in the series were produced in lithography by Horace...
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  • film directed by Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver. It stars Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins as two journalists working in the same office and falling in...
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    Stanley Gibbons colour guide stamps printed by Perkins Bacon...
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  • Petch may refer to: Henry Petch, partner of Perkins, Bacon & Petch Howard Petch (1925–2018), Canadian academic administrator Ivan Petch (born 1939), former...
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  • then came to England and was employed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. During his period of employment by Perkins Bacon he was responsible for the engraving of...
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  • Hubbard (23 May 1902 – 1976) was managing director of the printers Perkins Bacon & Co. He was also master of The Stationers' Company. Hubbard was a philatelist...
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    Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866 – February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who oversaw the engineering and design of the Lincoln Memorial...
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  • 1950s Alfred J. Hubbard (1902–1976), managing director of the printers Perkins Bacon & Co. Al Hubbard (disambiguation) Allan Hubbard (disambiguation) This...
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  • representing commerce in the centre of the notes. They were printed by Perkins, Bacon and Company, and British American Bank Note Company Limited PS101. 1...
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    Friars. His story was featured in Francis Bacon's 1622 work History of the Reign of King Henry VII. Perkin reportedly resembled Edward IV in appearance...
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    were unable to read the Latin alphabet. The stamps were printed by Perkins Bacon from plates that are now held in the museum of the Royal Philatelic...
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  • Philatelic Society London in 1958, and with Arnold M. Strange he edited Perkins Bacon Records based on the work of Percy de Worms. The London printing works...
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    by Messrs Perkins, Bacon & Co in London. The original die for these stamps was cut by William Humphrys, an engraver employed by Perkins Bacon. Sheets of...
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