The Wycombe Month. Harrison Labels

High Wycombe used to be home to both Harrison and De La Rue. Sadly both are gone. I recently came across these, and wondered if anyone has any information about them.

High Wycombe also(had?) an American RAF Station. We used to call it "The Wick".

Jack Kelley

Yes, at Daw's Hill on the south side of the tow. It's gone now, and is a new housing estate. I remember it in the early noughties.

Tim, your answer lies within my quarterly newsletter entitled Dummy Stamps. Go to www.stampprinters.info/dummystamps.htm and choose issue 50, page 5, column two. GLENN

Glenn, thank you very much! I had started to look at your newsletter but hadn't got anywhere close to Issue 50. T

A bit of research in the library has revealed the following. "Wycombe Month" was a trade fair organised by the furniture makers for which the town was (and is) famous. It was started in September 1933 by the Furniture Manufacturers Association during a depression in the furniture industry. Each manufacturer held a week long exhibition with the hope of attracting buyers. The venture was successful, but ended with the onset of World War 2.

This puts a date constraint on the label, but without trawling through Harrison's day books I can't be more precise than "somewhere between 1933 and 1939." It may be likely that the label was prepared to promote the first "Wycombe Month" in 1933.

The picture on the label is of the Market Place.