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Welcome to the latest GeorgeBaxter.com newsletter keeping you up to date on new research, discoveries or just (what I feel is) interesting information regarding George Baxter, Mid Victorian colour printing and all related subjects. 

It's been a few months since the last newsletter but anyone I 'know' will realise that as soon as the good weather arrives my time is taken up working on our smallholding so I look forward to the winter months when I can spend more time writing up my research and also loading new sale stock to the site. I started that task a couple of weeks ago and even now there is a lot of new items with so much more to go - as normal I won't have to time to load anywhere near the items I would like to - some rare items are in the pile - Advice on the car of the teeth in Saunders book - Vah Ta Ha, very hard to find in the book - Ordinance of Baptism, The Wreck, all the prints from the History of the Orders of Knighthood...the list goes on and yes a copy of the Map of the Victories of Napoleon, there can only be under ten copies known...please keep looking at the site or contact me direct. I hope you enjoy the newsletter - Mic

Baxter or a Le Blond reprint?

In the last Newsletter we had two articles about Joseph Mansell and his valentine cards, something that he is more well-known for than his colour printing perhaps.

In the article, and referenced to Ruth Lee's book 'History of Valentines', it was mentioned that no one had seen a Mansell colour print on a Mansell lace paper valentine.

Since then I have been shown a number of examples, rare perhaps but not unheard of. I show above an example with Mansell's print 'Little Boy Blue' on the front of the card and 'Mansell' embossed to the left hand side of the card. Our Chat has now been updated!