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Chats on...
Our Chats on... are an ongoing series of articles about George Baxter, his licencees and other mid Victorian Hand Pressed Colour Printers. For details about specific prints please see 'About Prints' everything else could be written about here.
All aspects about the printers and their methods. How the prints were used, in books, on needle boxes and other sewing items, in scrapbooks etc. It is a space for my continued research much of which has not been written about before.
The list of articles was getting much to large for the menu so we now have all the articles listed in this 'contents' page which will be added to regularly - Mic
Two Baxter needle box prints incorporated by a unknown manufacturer into pin cushions dating from circa 1855
George Baxter
The book 'Baxter Prints’ by BH Morgan - A word of warning
All Baxter's addresses, business and personal with dates etc
Baxter's Agents in Germany
Baxter's Apprentices - Harrison Weir, Alfred Reynolds, George Cargill Leighton etc
Baxter: the chromolithographic context by Michael Twyman
A sales receipt dated 1843 - a rare piece of ephemera
George Baxter's Birthplace - a painting by Paul Braddon
‘H.R.H. Prince Albert’s Cachou Aromatise’ - By Thomas Jackson after Baxter's Print
Baxter's wood engravings at Magpie Alley in Fleet Street London
Baxter prints reproduced on Sarreguemines China tableware
How Baxter made his glaze
Baxter's Needle box Prints, various articles
Printed by Baxter or Le Blond? Le Blond Baxter's how can you tell the difference?
Posthumous Baxters - prints taken from plates after his death - often sold as genuine
Le Blond & Co
Printed by Baxter or Le Blond? Le Blond Baxter's how can you tell the difference?
Brothers Water - Le Blond took the designs from J Sands and Thomas Allom
Tyrolean Waltz on an unrecorded Gold Bordered Mount
William Dickes
Dickes Premises at 109 - 111 Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell, London
Joseph Martin Kronheim - J M Kronheim & Co
The Christies 'New Hall Vault' sale of Kronheim prints in September 1987
Kronheim & Co - a chronology of the full company history
Kronheim Sheets - we now know which books they were used in...
Joseph Mansell
Charles Dickens visit to Joseph Mansell premises
Joseph Mansell - His Valentines and Prints by Geoff Snowden
Fakes & Forgeries
In the 1920's lots of fakes were produced - don't get caught, see our comprehensive article
Posthumous Baxters - prints taken from plates after his death - often sold as genuine