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Re: JS&W Printers Mark
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:18 pm
by DrJeep
Hi Bert
it's also a new model box, like John's picture, with a single D-shaped cut out. I hope this shows it well enough!
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The only difference from the other one seems to be that mine is missing the small number on the flap.
Re: JS&W Printers Mark
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 8:48 pm
by kay
I probably have found a connection between the JS&W mark and a printing company.
If my find is correct, the mark actually should read "J.W&S", which would have been "James Wrigley & Sons", a papermaking firm from Manchester.
There has been a link between "J.W&S" and Bowater-Scott, but that was long time before Bowater-Scott did the printing of the Lesney boxes:
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bowater-Scott
There are no more details shown about "James Wrigley & Sons", and I have not been able to find anything further about that company in the Internet, so maybe my find was just kind of an accidental coincidence......
Actually I was in search of a connection to another small printing company or shop that did very early printing jobs for Lesney (boxes, order and invoice sheets and the like). It was owned by a guy named Joe Gabell, who seem to have had strong connections to Jack Odell - but that's a good story for a seperate thread in the near future!
Kay
Re: JS&W Printers Mark
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 11:44 pm
by ChFalkensteiner
No really new information, but this is a scan of the only box I have on which the JS&W logo is visible - yet another Vauxhall Victor Estate:
