Kent Vale papers : advertising & samples insert issued by Allied Paper Merchants (W.T. & Co.) Ltd : in : Printing Review : No. 20, Winter 1936 - 37 : London : 1936 : overlays
A rather fine insert in the Winter 1936/37 issue of the UK trade journal Printing Review. It serves two purposes; firstly as an example of six rubber mat colour printing showing the versitility of the process in which tracings of the artwork were taken on six mats, one used for each colour.
The insert is for the "Kent Vale" paper and shows several of the weights and finishes available, firstly on the cover and then on the four interleaved graduated pages that overlap producing the final image on the final page. Sadly, given the discussion of the process no artist or printer is given. The name Kent and vale is suggested in the artwork of hop fields and oast houses; a scene especially connected with the county of Kent. The paper is described as Cream Weave parchment style that was tub sized, air dried and of rag quality. Different weights, shades and sheet sizes are available.
The insert is issued under the name of the Allied Paper Merchants and, I am sure, the "W.T." stands for Wiggins Teape, the long established British papermakers founded in 1761. Becoming a public company in 1919 by the date of this advert they had acquired over 30 associated companies and the "Allied" likely marketed the papers produced by the whole group.
Kent Vale papers : advertising & samples insert issued by Allied Paper Merchants (W.T. & Co.) Ltd : in : Printing Review : No. 20, Winter 1936 - 37 : London : 1936 : overlays
A rather fine insert in the Winter 1936/37 issue of the UK trade journal Printing Review. It serves two purposes; firstly as an example of six rubber mat colour printing showing the versitility of the process in which tracings of the artwork were taken on six mats, one used for each colour.
The insert is for the "Kent Vale" paper and shows several of the weights and finishes available, firstly on the cover and then on the four interleaved graduated pages that overlap producing the final image on the final page. Sadly, given the discussion of the process no artist or printer is given. The name Kent and vale is suggested in the artwork of hop fields and oast houses; a scene especially connected with the county of Kent. The paper is described as Cream Weave parchment style that was tub sized, air dried and of rag quality. Different weights, shades and sheet sizes are available.
The insert is issued under the name of the Allied Paper Merchants and, I am sure, the "W.T." stands for Wiggins Teape, the long established British papermakers founded in 1761. Becoming a public company in 1919 by the date of this advert they had acquired over 30 associated companies and the "Allied" likely marketed the papers produced by the whole group.