In this episode, Ourdadsstamps discovers how De La Rue lost a printing contract that they had held for nearly 50 years, the problems facing Harrison & sons when they took over the printing and how the governments own printers at Somerset House got involved in printing stamps of King Edward VII.
Re Edward VII issue/s – wasn’t the 3d printed in purple on yellow paper??
Re colours of Edward VII stamps – wasn’t the 3d in a single colour (purple) but on coloured paper (yellow)?