Maclure, Macdonald and Co.

MacLure, MacDonald & Co. were, in Victorian times, "Ornamental Printers to the Queen".

The company was founded in 1835 and was acquired in 1992 by J R Reid Printers of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire.

[1] Andrew MacLure and Archibald Gray MacDonald set up business as engravers and lithographic printers in Glasgow in 1835.

In 1851, MacLure, MacDonald & Co imported a Sigl machine from Germany which was capable of printing 600 sheets an hour and the firm is believed to be the first in the UK to use steam power for lithographic printing.

MacLure, MacDonald & Co. survived until 1992 when its assets were acquired by J R Reid Printers of Blantyre.

Stamps for The National Telephone Company which had headquarters in Glasgow and operated throughout Scotland and the north-west of England. Produced in 1884 by MacLure, MacDonald & Co.