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Printed to Private
Order GB Newspaper Wrappers
Stamped to Order
wrappers were in use
from 1855. The
stamping was done at Somerset House
on paper supplied by the customer. A notice giving details of the service
available was issued on 8th October 1855 and the wording of this notice
was as follows.
Inland
Revenue.
8th October, 1855.
THE
Board of Inland Revenue have, in conformity with the provisions of the
4th section of the 18th and 19th Vict., c. 78, provided the necessary
apparatus for impressing with Postage Stamps paper sent in by the
Public for the covers or envelopes of letters. Notice is therefore
given, that the Board are now prepared to receive paper to be delivered
at the Head Office, Somerset House, London, for the purpose of being
impressed with Stamps for denoting the several rates of postage,
subject to the following Regulations, namely: -
When
the amount of the Stamps required by any person shall not exceed
£10, a
fee of One Shilling will be charged in addition to the duty if paper of
one size only be sent in, and if more than one size be sent in, then a
fee of One Shilling for each size.
On the Warrants hereafter mentioned no fee
will be payable, but the sizes of paper will be restricted as follow-
When the amount exceeds £10 and is
under £20, paper of one size only will be received.
If the amount exceeds £20 and is
under £30, two sizes of paper only will be received.
£30 and under £40, three sizes
of paper.
£40
and under £50, four sizes of paper, and not more than four sizes
of
paper will be allowed to be included in any one Warrant of however high
an amount.
No
folded envelopes can be stamped, and therefore paper, whether intended
for envelopes or for letters, must be sent in unfolded; and every
distinct size and form of envelope or paper must be marked so as to
indicate the place on which the Stamp is to be impressed, in order that
it may appear in the proper position, according to the rules of the
Post Office, when the envelope or letter is folded and made up.
No coloured paper can be received for
Stamping, nor any paper of such thinness as not to bear the impression
of the dies.
Envelopes
provided by this Office with the proper Stamps thereon will be
substituted for any of those sent in which may be spoiled in the
operation of Stamping.
It
should be borne in mind that licensed Vendors only are authorized to
sell Postage Stamps impressed as above-mentioned, or any other.
By Order of the Board,
THOMAS KEOGH
Secretary. |
Crosse & Blackwell's
newspaper wrapper c 1900
addressed to Messrs Sturt
Ogilvie & Co, Suva, Fiji
Anybody
could use this service and a result there are many items on the market
today which were ordered by private individuals to produce "philatelic"
wrappers etc.
1912 Newspaper wrapper for The Royal
Automobile Club Journal
The following list, of businesses which had PTPO newspaper wrappers
with imprinted stamp, is
based on wrappers that are in my collection or wrappers that I
have seen to date.
The Alliance News
The Alliance News
and
Temperance Reformer
The American Investment Trust Company Limited
Anchor
Line
The Athenaeum
Automobile Club
Journal
Bible and Prayer
Union
Borries, Craig &
Co
The Bradford Observer
Bristol Mercury
The Buenos Ayres & Rosario Railway Co Ltd
Bullard,
King &
Co
Cambridge University
Local
Examinations and Lectures
Central Argentine
Railway Co
Ltd
Chas & Thos Harris & Co Ltd
The
Chemical Trade
Journal
and Chemical Engineer
The Chemist and
Druggist
The City Soap Works
Clews, Habicht &
Co
Country Life
Crocdon & Co
Crosse &
Blackwell
Crowden & Garrod
Crown
Reef Gold
Mining
Company Limited
Daily Express
The Daily Graphic
Daily Mail
The Daily News & Leader
The
Daily Telegraph
Dalton & Young
David Smith & Co
Davies & Coe
E Lazenby
& Son
E Marlborough &
Co
East and West India
Dock Co
East London Church
Fund Report
The Eastern
Telegraph Company
Limited
The Effective
Advertiser
The Engineer
Engineering
The Evening Standard
Export Mail
Faudel,
Phillips
& Sons
The Financial Outlook
Fischel, London
Flageollet & Co
The Foreign &
Colonial
Investment Trust Company Ltd
G Harding & Sons
The Gas Light and
Coke Company
The Globe
The Great Eastern
Railway
Company
Grindley & Co
The
Grocer and Oil
Trade
Review
Gross, Sherwood & Heald Ltd
Guest,
Keen &
Nettlefolds
Limited
H Clarkson & Co
The Hairdressers’
Chronicle
Harrisons &
Crosfield Ltd
Herald of Peace
Hodkinsons, Clarke & Ward
Holms
&
Hedderwick
Horace Marshall
& Sons
Horncastle’s Ltd
Hospital Sunday Fund
Illustrated Catholic
Missions
The Indian, Colonial
&
Foreign Engineer & Builder and Journal of Public Works
Institution of
Electrical
Engineers
The Ironmonger
James Budgett &
Son
James I Fellows
Jeffrey & Co
Jordan & Sons
Limited
The Journal of
Commerce
Justice of the Peace
Keen’s Mustard
Life and Work
The Limited
Liability Review
Liverpool Post,
Mercury and
Echo
Lloyd's Weekly News
Lockwood,
Whitlark
& Co
London, Chatham and
Dover
Railway
London City Mission
London Commercial
Record
London Corn Circular
London Daily Stock
&
Share List
London Transfer
Office
Longmans (overprint
on
Rivingtons)
Macmillan & Co
Mallinson & Co
Manchester
Guardian
Manchester,
Sheffield &
Lincolnshire Railway Company
Marians and Priest
Midland Railways
The Mining Journal
The Missionary Herald
The Morning Post
Mr Murray
Naval and Military
Gazette
Nestle, Andreae
& Co
The New Zealand News
Newburn & Barker
Newman Smith &
Newman
News Chronicle
North
British &
Mercantile Insurance Company
Notes and Queries
Oil &
Colourman’s Journal
Old Calabar Dog
Biscuits
Over-Seas League
P B Burgoyne & Co
Pawsons & Leafs
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
The
People
Plumbridge, Son
& Co
Post Magazine and
Insurance
Monitor
Pottery Gazette
Powell & Sing
Practical Engineering
Price’s
Price’s Palmitine
Candles
Priest, Marians
& Co Ltd
Protheroe &
Morris
R Falconer
The Railway Times
Rand Mines Limited
Revista Del Mercado
de
Aillon, Aramayo y Cia
Rhymney Railway Company
Richard Bulman & Co
Rivingtons
Royal Automobile
Club Journal
The Royal Colonial
Institute
The Royal Empire
Society
The Royal Insurance
Company,
Liverpool
Rylands & Sons
Limited
Saarbach’s Newsagency
The Schoolmaster
Shipping Gazette
&
Lloyd’s List
The Sketch
Society for
Promoting
Christian Knowledge
The Sphere
Spottiswoode &
Co Ltd
Stamp Collecting
Stamps
The Standard
The
Stock Exchange
Daily
Official List
Stubbs Weekly Gazette
The Suffolk Chronicle
The Sunday Express
By Supplementary Mail
The Tablet
The Tatler
The
Times
Under the Hammer
Property
Reports
Union Steam Ship Co
W
Bliss & Sons
W Parkinson & Co
W & C Pantin
W H Smith
Warwick & Sons
William Whiteley
Women’s Suffrage
Journal
The
Yorkshire
Observer
"With the Compliments of the
Bishop of Islington and the Bishop of Stepney"
Newspaper wrapper for the East
London Church Fund Report impressed with a three halfpence stamp.
© Jan Kosniowski
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