Perkins Bacon

Perkins and Fairman added Charles Heath as a partner, and moved their shop to 69 Fleet Street.

They did have good accounting of any debts to the company, and shares sold between themselves, and percentage ownership of every project.

They produced samples to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Commission on Forgery, and it appeared that they would win.

Jacob Perkins was an inventor who made steel book plates practical (but not cheaper).

Financial difficulties of one or the other partners had at least one of them in debt to the company at any moment in time, and the accounting records from these guys are confusing, but very businesslike.

In 1861 they (temporarily) lost the contract to print stamps as a punishment for giving copies of new issues away to friends of the management without permission from the governments involved.

They completed their printing contract for the line-engraved stamps on 31 December 1879, losing subsequent business to competitor De La Rue.

In 1935 the firm went out of business and its records were acquired by Charles and Harry Nissen and Thomas Allen.

The records were subsequently acquired by the Royal Philatelic Society London where Percy de Worms organised them for publication and display.

A Penny Black , with a red cancellation that was hard to see and easily removed
Collage for banknote design, Bank of Manchester (England), 1833, sent to Perkins & Bacon. On display at the British Museum in London
Stanley Gibbons colour guide stamps printed by Perkins Bacon