In junior school, I started a (short-lived) class magazine, Thursday Special, but my greatest feelings of joy were when I got out my John Bull printing set. A few years ago I saw one John Bull Printing Outfit in possession of the Stellenbosch Children’s Museum , South Africa. The top rated TV show was Labour Party Political Broadcast (all channels) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.

The Charter Stamp Company moved several times in their early years of trading, eventually settling at 57 Southwark Street, London SE1, where the sets were also produced. It's one of those self-inking stamps (where the type is pressed against an ink pad inside and flips over onto the workpiece when you press it down) where the type consists of individual rubber letters/digits. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis.

Condition (used): fair for age in fair box (see below) - unsure as to completeness so what you see is what you get, it's definitely missing the leaflet, tongs and some letters but it may have an extra wooden block - the box is a little worn with some minor edge/corner wear, slight bowing, and general grubbiness and marks, the contents are generally fair with ink staining and fairly minor marks commensurate with age and use. This has been an jnteresting thread and one of the links provided by David suggests one of the inks will print onto plastic - that is quite exciting if it will work on cassettes (wonder if the ink stains the letters blocks? The top rated TV show was The Budget (All Channels) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia.

Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.From 1940 until his death in 1954 he lived with my mother (his daughter Helen) and my late brother and myself at Meopham, Kent. The company proclaimed the John Bull Printing Outfit to be 100% “Made in the British Isles” which was true: Boxes were made on-site, the rubber letters were moulded and vulcanised at the factory and even the non-toxic water-based ink was brewed up in large buckets.

I have to confess I was better at losing the bits than I was at printing anything and rather quickly lost interest.

It works in the same principle of every other home letterpress kit – lots of tiny rubber squares with reversed letters raised up on the top surface. In the late 1970s costly plastic injection-moulding equipment was purchased for soft polymers, although the old vulcanised rubber system was retained for foreign language sets. Norman Folland, Jill Wakely Behind her Jane Merritt, Sheila Wilton, Candy Whiteman,Michele Laviers, ,Susan Collins , Jenny Went.