Joseph Salmon ( 20 September 1844 – 9 November 1923) was a British bookseller turned postcard publisher and printer, and the founder of J Salmon Ltd in 1880, the UK's oldest postcard and calendar publisher.
[1] He was born in the parish of St George in the East, in what is now Stepney, London, the son of Joseph and Maria Salmon.
[2] In the 1881 census, he was listed as a stationer and printer, with five assistants and two boys working for him.
[3] He retired in 1898, and his son, also called Joseph, took over the family business.
[4][5] His son Percy founded the Salmon Motor Company in Burton-on-Trent, which operated from 1912 to 1915, and manufactured the Ace car.