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Post by daniel on Apr 28, 2021 4:22:13 GMT
Two interesting Harrison and Sons displays on cards. They consist of enlarged black and white photographs affixed to thick Colyer & Southey CS10 Line Boards, each with a signature on the reverse. The Prince of Wales Investiture, from1969, card measures 12" wide by 9.75" deep. The British Cathedrals set, also from 1969, measures 12" wide by 7.25" deep, the last two higher values appear to be in sepia but that may be down to discolouration. They came with a compliments slip or letterhead.
Investigating further, I now believe that they are master copies for the press photographs that were issued at that time.
 Scan_20210428 (2) by Daniel, on Flickr
 Scan_20210428 (3) by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by daniel on Apr 28, 2021 4:53:11 GMT
A First Day Cover for the 500th Anniversary of the College of Arms issued on 17th January 1984. Also, the 50th Anniversary of Harrison & Sons producing postage stamps for the British Post Office. A special Harrison & Sons cover and postmark.
Secondly, a Harrisons (sic) sample banknote printed for The Third Annual European Paper Money Bourse, 1989 held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Featuring Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
The company had been taken over by Lonrho in 1979 (and later De La Rue in 1997) and this would explain the use of the name Harrisons which would have been frowned upon when the company was family owned.
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Post by daniel on May 25, 2022 2:14:55 GMT
An informative write-up for this Harrison and Sons promotional card for the 41st Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1959. With examples of their regional stamps for Northern Ireland, Jersey, Isle of Man, Scotland, Guernsey and Wales. Hand stamped for the Congress at Torquay 9th June 1959.  |
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Post by daniel on Jun 1, 2022 1:28:57 GMT
Three proof cards for stamps for the Building and Civil Engineering Holidays Scheme (B&CE). This scheme was created in 1942 by unions and employer federations because construction workers, who tended to move jobs frequently, needed a way to build up holiday pay. Every week a construction worker would buy a stamp to stick on a card. Then they would cash in the card to give themselves money to live on when they took a holiday. The scheme ended circa 2012 but B&CE still exists providing pensions. These proofs probably date from about 1971. One card is marked Accepted and is signed.  |
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Post by daniel on Jun 7, 2022 16:38:08 GMT
The House of Harrison A 1914 publication from Harrison and Sons. They were also book publishers at that time. Some very nice prints included. Printed on Waldorf watermarked paper. Harrison and Sons was a major worldwide engraver and printer of postage stamps and banknotes. History from Wikipedia The company was established in 1750 by Thomas Harrison in Warwick Lane, London; in 1839 Thomas Richard Harrison entered into partnership with John William Parker, creating Harrison and Co. It went through similar names and retained Harrison family ownership until 1979 when sold to Lonrho. Harrison and Sons printed its first stamp, a 1d Inland Revenue stamp for Montserrat, in 1866. This seems to be the only stamp printed by the company during the 19th century. It obtained its first Post Office contract in 1881. In 1910, a new factory opened in Hayes. The company won the contract to print the single colour United Kingdom Edward VII stamps in 1911 after the Post Office decided not to renew its contract with De La Rue. Initially, using printing machines manufactured by Timsons of Kettering, it went on to produce most of the British stamps over the 60-year period from the 1930s until the 1990s, including the first UK stamp using the photogravure method in 1934 and the first photogravure commemoratives in 1935 for Silver Jubilee of King George V. The first UK Christmas issue in 1966, on the specially designed Jumelle press, was also printed at Harrison and Sons. They printed their last British commemorative issue, referred to as "Queen’s Beasts’ issue", in 1998. The stamps were actually printed one year before they were issued to the public. During the 1920s, Harrison & Son printed banknotes for the Commonwealth Bank in Australia. In 1933, the factory moved to High Wycombe. The company also printed stamps, banknotes, passports and gift vouchers for over 100 other countries from 1881. Some of its most famous publications were The London Gazette and Burke's Peerage. In 1979, the business was purchased by Lonrho. In February 1997, it was sold to De La Rue with the High Wycombe plant refurbished. The plant closed in 2003.    |
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Post by daniel on Jun 7, 2022 16:41:18 GMT
Included with the above book was this Bicentenary Review from 1950  |
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Post by daniel on Jun 7, 2022 16:46:59 GMT
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Post by daniel on Aug 11, 2022 3:10:26 GMT
A Harrison & Sons card issued for The British Philatelic Exhibition 1968 with the 1 shilling and sixpence Art stamp affixed to the card from 1968 depicting John Piper's painting of St Mary-le-Port Church, Bristol.  |
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Post by octavius on Aug 11, 2022 23:04:41 GMT
All good info.
Thanks for taking the time to scan.
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Post by daniel on Oct 28, 2022 23:43:04 GMT
This card was produced by Harrison and Sons for the Stanley Gibbons Centenary Exhibition in March 1956 at the Waldorf Hotel, London.  |
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Post by daniel on Nov 19, 2022 6:38:31 GMT
Another Harrison & Sons presentation card. This time promoting Sierra Leone stamps issued on 1st January 1963. Note also, the 4 Royal Warrants, for HM The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Queen Mother and The Late Queen Mary.  |
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Post by hdm1950 on Nov 19, 2022 11:55:00 GMT
Another Harrison & Sons presentation card. This time promoting Sierra Leone stamps issued on 1st January 1963. Note also, the 4 Royal Warrants, for HM The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Queen Mother and The Late Queen Mary. from my days collectables and antique business Paragon bone china cup and saucer serious collectors paid quite a bit of attention to Royal Warrant marks. It does make them very easy to date. |
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Post by daniel on Mar 7, 2023 15:54:20 GMT
These were a surprisingly cheap purchase. Although not purchased from them, they are described by Grosvenor Auctions as " Dummy Stamps: Harrison & Sons: 1984 (ca.) phosphor tagging trial on perforated dummy stamps of Thomas Richard Harrison on gummed paper, originally from a sheet of 100 with each quarter sheet featuring the different phosphor coatings designs of ''@'', ''%'', thin barcode, and thick barcode". The Mauve stamp has the % phospher overprint and the Emerald Green and Reddish-Purple stamps have multiple vertical thin phospher bands.  |
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Post by daniel on Mar 12, 2023 2:24:33 GMT
I showed this piece in the dummy thread but I'm showing it here as it clearly relates to the stamps that I showed above although without any discernible phospher coating, Also, in the above post, I have corrected the phospher coating on the mauve stamp as it actually shows the % symbol.  |
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Post by daniel on Mar 12, 2023 2:43:10 GMT
These are dummy and other Harrison cinderella stamps shown elsewhere but worth showing in this thread. Horsenden was the home of Hugh Harrison, a family member and board director. Top right Bernardino Rivadavia (Argentina essay), Robespierre and the Sultan of Djokjakarta, Java!  |
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Post by daniel on Mar 25, 2023 1:36:30 GMT
Two sheets of dummy stamps depicting flowers. With light green and yellow background, also available in grey and other colours.  |
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Post by daniel on Mar 25, 2023 2:55:48 GMT
Printed by Harrison & Sons for the British Philatelic Bulletin's Silver Jubilee in September 1988. It depicts a portrait of Rowland Hill using three different printing processes: Photogravure, Offset-Lithography and Letterpress.  |
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Post by daniel on Mar 27, 2023 14:26:04 GMT
This card, mocked up from 3 other card essays, shows Andrew Restall's design for the British Ships stamps for 1969. It was used to test a red varnish. These. designs, depicting an oil tanker, a cablelayer and a cargo liner were not used. Ultimately, David Gentleman was selected to design this issue.  British Ships Print by Daniel |
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Post by daniel on Mar 30, 2023 1:48:10 GMT
Although shown elsewhere on the forum, I am showing my copy of this black print edition of the 1953 Coronation stamps printed by Harrison & Sons Ltd. Included in the 1954 edition of The Penrose Annual, a major publication relating to the printing industry. It is stated on the reverse of the stamps that they are "Reproduction Only/No postal or philatelic value". They clearly don't know stamp collectors   |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 19, 2023 1:09:59 GMT
The Global search of my database for "Harrison" brought up mainly "George Harrison" (The Beatles)
but also, the engraver for Waterlows. (This was in the first instance, confusing)
Harrisons Perforator, Grover Etc
(from my records 2005)
Stamp Perforating
An article on stamp perforating machinery by Dave Hill in the Stamp
Lover, the magazine produced by the National Philatelic Society
(UK) gives an interesting insight into the manufacture and operation
of these appliances.
"In 1875 )W Grover, a railway engineer, patented a spring washer,
this was followed eight years later with a patent for lead glazing bars
which did not require putty.
All kinds of machinery was designed and manufactured over the
years ranging from typewriter ribbon winders to steam engines. As
general engineers the firm has had many consultants over the years,
one a Mr Patient designed the Continuous Stamp Printing machine,
the firm built for Harrisons in 1920 and Enschende.
Perforators were supplied to all stamp printers in the earlier part of
this century. Harrisons had problems operating their Grover built
rotary perforator. Blaming the manufacturers for their problems,
however Grovers maintained that lack of humidity control resulted in
shrinkage of the paper. Harrisons eventually disposed of most of
these appliances, reverting to other Grover types, and cutting the roll
of stamps into sheets before perforating them. Later, following the
installation of humidity control, they were to regret this action , as the
one rotary perforator they kept operated very efficiently.
The workings of the Grovers' old perforating machinery is
interesting.
The illustrations (not to scale) show (Figure1) a comb perforating die
and (Figure 2) a section through a perforating box. Thus the
perforating head, consisting of the pins and stripping plate move
downwards and clamps the positioned sheets.
Next the pins move downwards through the stripping plate, which
acts as an alignment guicfe for the pins (as they never leave the
stripping plate), and pass through the sheets into the die below. The
action of the stripping plate is important, otherwise the paper would
stay impaled upon the pins as the head is raised.
The enlarged section through the die (Figure 3) shows how the holes
are drilled larger on the underside, to allow the waste material to be
expelled without effort. Perforating boxes vary in width, are very
heavy, and are similar in construction whether comb or line (a single
line of pins). The die is about 12mm thick and the pins 1mm in
diameter.
Generally speaking, when the machine is properly set up, it is
impossible for sheets to pass through the machine without being
perforated. The box is operated by rotary cams, thus each cycle must
be completed before the next one starts. The machine would quickly
clog up if the pins did not fully clear the waste from the die.
Various numbers of sheets can be perforated at a time, on the small
machines up to five sheets, but two would ensure the maximum
period between resharpening.
After about two weeks operation, the perforating pin becomes
rounded, however it is easily sharpened, either by hand or machine,
after which it is readjusted for length. The leading edge of the hole in
the die is also rounded, necessitating "dressing the die". For this
operation a special punch (Figure 3c) and a hammer is used to restore
the edge of the hole, however a small burr is left and the hole is
recessed. The stripping plate is aligned over the die and a piece of the
pin material is driven through thus removing the burr. The top of the
die is then surface ground, to remove the recess. After reassembly the
head is again ready for operation.
All shapes of perforation can be accommodated triangular,
diamond-shaped, round or free form. The important thing to Grovers
was the pitch (the number of holes across the sheet width). This was
estimated, then adjusted, for comb dies, so that the same riumber of
holes appeared on each stamp, with one in each corner and any
gutters allowed for. The sheet or pane widths, were marked
accurately, then a precision machine tool using gears and screws,
accurately divided up the spaqe between the noles, on a master die.
the human eye could not be relied upon for the
accuracy required. Although similar accuracy between stamps was
not required for straight line dies, they were still accurately drilled by
the same machines. Working dies, stripping plate, and pin holder
were all drilled through the master die.Master dies were kept so that
replacement parts fitted accurately. A register of machines was also
kept. One machine originally sold to Poland, had returned to England
and was being used to perforate stamps of Bible scenes."
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Post by daniel on Oct 21, 2023 2:37:54 GMT
Three items printed by Harrisons for Stanley Gibbons and another.  |
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Post by daniel on Oct 29, 2023 18:20:51 GMT
Harrison & Sons 5p Machin multi-value coil leader with a strip of 8 stamps. SG no. X841n for the coil strip of 5. With a Royal Mail seal still attached. Issued for vending machines.  |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 30, 2023 0:52:11 GMT
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