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

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The Charter Stamp Company moved head office several times in the early years of trading, but would eventually settle at 57 Southwark Street, London SE1, where the sets were also produced. 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. 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, ?

There was a pair of tweezers for handling the fiddly letters, it was easy losing some of the letters as they fell on the floor and bounced away. It`s a lovely sunny day here but tomorrow is meant to be like the winter of 1963, never to be forgotten.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. Simple arrange the letters in the little wooden grooves, press into the inkpad and well, print away!

Early sets sometimes included a rubber stamp showing the John Bull figure illustrated on the box lid. The manufacture of rubber stamping toys for children was carried on alongside these commercial activities.Top Row - Fay Thompson - Ian Sellars - Ann Morris - Rob Passmore - Shiela Vidler - Roger Cloony and Christine Lemuri. The name of their small enterprise—The Charter Stamp Company—means very little today, but their most famous product—the John Bull Printing Outfit —is probably more fondly remembered than the Adana press. 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 ! Early John Bull sets consisted of just upper-case characters and rubber illustration blocks were introduced into the sets by the late 1920s, but had also been sold separately for three decades or more.