GB Paper Duty
Dave Elsmore Queensland Australia
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I have the below Seals from various paper mills, can anybody identify them please?
All appear post paper duty tax.
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Paper Duty No 1
Date?
Mill Name?
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Paper Duty No 2
Date January 1866
Makers Name M C & Co?
Die Number?
What does ENT. STA. HALL. in lower left stand for?
Answer: My thanks
to Stephen Gardner of Reading for the following: "Ent. Sta. Hall. is
Entered at
Stationers' Hall, an early method of registering copyright. See"
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/s/stationershall.html
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Paper Duty No 3
Date 1872. 1st issued?
Makers Name PHIPPS River Mills
Die Number?
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Paper Duty No 4
Date?
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Paper Duty No 5
Date?
Mill Name?
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More from Ed Hitchings:
Hi Dave
I was interested in seeing your paper seals that you put on the website.
I have attached two scans; one is of a seal that I have in my collection and the
second is from Harry Dagnell's book "The taxation of paper in Great Britain
1643-1861."
Ed Hitchings Collection
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More from Ed:
I have found two more paper seals [below]. They are not really classic in their design but are obviously based on the original designs.
I know nothing about them, they are on gummed paper and possibly originate from the 1960's.
The paper labels below are numbered 682. Apparently that was for Soneclough Mill near Manchester.
Harry Dagnell states in his book "The taxation of paper in Great Britain 1643-1861" that this number (682) was allocated to Robert Fletcher & Son, the owners of the mill, a century earlier.
Your label no.5 is also numbered 682.
There is a website which gives a short history of this mill at: www.theviewfromthenorth.org/portfolio24471.html
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I've been doing some more reading and Harry says;
"In 1816 the Excise issued a list of papermakers and mills, giving each a mill number that had to be used in all Excise communications, forms and on the labels.
The practice was discontinued in 1857; although the existing numbers continued to be used and no new numbers were added after this date. ....
Mills of the London Establishment were denoted by letters and those in the provinces by numbers in alphabetical sequenceof of collection.
If a mill closed its number was sometimes re-allocated to another mill. Similar lists were later issued for mills in Scotland and Ireland, both lists beginning with the no. 1."
Many thanks Ed.
Ed Hitchings Collection
Ed Hitchings Collection
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