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Newsletter No 10 - March 2022

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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

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Many people's thoughts must be on what is currently happening in Ukraine but I thought my subscribers might like a little light relief.

Best wishes - Mic

 

 

Following on from my articles released in the last two newsletters regarding the new information about Baxter's travelling sales of the early 1860's followed by a detailed review of one of the sale posters from the sale at Brompton, I now realease the final part - details about the advertisng posters for two of those sales

 
Read more about it here...

 

 

Reference Books - just added a chronological list of all the reference works for Baxter, his licensees and colour printing in general  - also started to review some of the titles with some interesting results - just ONE review bought about the next THREE interesting articles

 
Read the list and the reviews

 

Memoirs of Wellington with CL 225 Duke of Wellington as the Frontispiece - a rare book?

 
Find out here...

 

 

Progressive Proofs, what are they? Read about a set now owned by the British Museum

 
Read about them here...

 

Le Blond's ovals - when were they printed? Now we know - new information after a chance discovery of an auction listing from nearly 90 years ago

 
Find out here...

Did you enter the competition in last months newsletter?

No you didn't - I know that as I didn't get any entries!

Is it that no one bothered looking? Didn't think you could win? Or couldn't work it out?

Whatever your level of knowledge if you have a copy of the Price Guide to Baxter Prints the answer is in there - or perhaps it is one of the prints in your collection?

  A £10 Gift voucher available - so well worth having some fun and having a go

 
The question is at the bottom of this article...
 

What was the first ever work accredited to George Baxter?

 
Find out here
 

So what about the first ever work George Baxter did on his own account, so outside of his father's publications

Another new discovery!

 
Read here

And yet another new discovery

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Epps's Cocoa shop display box with labels printed by Le Blond & Co

 
read the details here

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Best wishes - Mic

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