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    Pioneers of print

    Oct 16, 2020 3 minutes

    Perkins, Bacon & Petch

    surely crowns Perkins, Bacon & Petch with the ultimate philatelic accolade? Yet long before that glorious day in May 1840 secured their place in the postal pantheon, the company had, for more than twenty years, competed and succeeded in the highly competitive field of banknote printing. Two of their founders, Jacob Perkins and Charles Heath; already renowned paper money engravers and printers in New England, decided to cross the Atlantic for England in 1819, tempted by the Bank of England’s offer of a £20,000 prize to any company that could produce high denomination notes that would

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