Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain
Vol. 2 No. 10; April 1, 2005
Newspaper Companies
by Michael Behm
Where are the commercial overprints from newspaper companies?
Britain has a long history of newspaper production. Take Newcastle, for instance. On 12 July 1832 the second newspaper called the Newcastle Journal started producing weekly newspapers, making it 121 years younger than the Newcastle Courant. But at that time both of these paled in comparison to Sir Joseph Cowen's Newcastle Daily Chronicle, the North-East's leading newspaper. The Chronicle became a daily in 1858; the Journal converted from weekly in 1861.
With that amount of newspaper activity taking place during the era of commercial overprints in a small city such as Newcastle, you might think that commercial overprints from newspaper companies across Britain would be common. This does not appear to be the case.
Based on a very small survey, overprints from newspaper companies are unexpectedly scarce and appear mainly at the end of the commercial-overprint era. Of course, some newspaper companies' overprints are initials only—which makes it difficult to determine the identity of the user. However, it does seem strange that there are so few commercial overprints reported from newspaper companies.
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