Philip & Tacey Ltd. London

John Tacey first established his school supply business in 1829 when he realised that school equipment was hard to find. Upon his death in 1862, his nephew took over and the business became very successful.
They merged with Publishers George Philip in 1902 and moved from Fleet Street to Fulham in 1919. George Philip left the partnership in 1920 but the name remained.
The company continued to grow and after WWII, began to offer a wider range of products especially for younger school children.
During the late 60's and early 70's, they moved from London to premises in Barnstable, North Devon and Andover, Hampshire where they remain today.
They were taken over by Findel plc in 2007.

[http://www.findel-education.co.uk]

Here is one of their innovative products [1961].



The folder contained 6 sheets of 36 stamps for use in schools.
Shown below are 4 blocks. Missing are the 2d Brown and 1d Blue overprints.

My efforts to find the location of Rowland School have proved fruitless thus far. But it is an ongoing search.









Londonbus1.....

What a fascinating idea and book and stamps londonbus! !

get them in school where everyone is doing the same thing, working on their stamps. Wow.

Neat stamps too.

Michael..... very interesting. Thanks for posting this.




Butch

More blocks and the missing colours !!

I don't suppose that the Rowland is meant to evoke Rowland Hill and the product name should be parsed as:

Rowland | School Token Stamps?

Regardless, most interesting cinderellas.

For sale on ebay Lb, 25 quid.

...and 1840to1940, advertised as Rowland Hill stamps.

Picked up this snippet when web searching for the name:

"Rowland School Token Stamps. (Philip & Tacey. 4s. 9d.) The Rowland School Token Stamps consist of 50 perforated, gummed sheets of stamps valued at 2id., 2d., lid., Id. and id. They should prove popular in school post offices ... "

Taken from the Scottish Education Journal, Vol. 36, Issue 42 (1953).

Very neat, indeed. Not 25quid neat, but neat.

Confirms items need a background story to
gain weight at the auctioneers.
History gives them legitimacy.
If we had the background story (and an interesting one)
these items may go for more.
Some paintings were found yesterday,
Ooops, they are by Picasso, suddenly worth 50 millions.

Interesting wt1,
Scotland.
Rowland Hill's brother was involved heavily
in postal development, and was located in scotland.
He designed one of the first semi auto cancellers
including the "brunswick star"
The name of the canceller escapes me right now.

Let us not forget that Rowland Hill was a teacher and worked in his Father's school. He then took over the school and moved it from the Midlands to London.
All this was at the same time as Philip & Tacey were making a name for themselves in the school supply business.

Now to find a connection...where have I said that before? Mmmm, YES ! Where is Stampvirgin !

The ebay seller is probably only assuming the connection although he does have a large supply of labels ! But he does put nice French stamps on his covers

Back to the labels. They are rouletted [Hyphen] and every horizontal row of roulettes are inked in black...but only the punched area.
Most unusual.

The excerpt in the Scottish Education Journal most likely referred to a different make-up of packet or printing, because there was no mention of the 3d value. The use of the term perforated was most likel;y quite common then for rouletted items, but I stand corrected.

There is a Rowland School in the UK, only one, but I have no idea of location,age etc. They have a website but it is almost empty and is of no use at all.[seemingly]

Londonbus1.....also of no use at all !

I have emailed Philip & Tacey to ask where I can find some answers.......

Keep us up to date on your research, Londonbus. Fascinating

Maybe you ought to go on an SCF grant funded trip to England for six months of research into the topic. I'm sure Bobby would support your grant request!