Newfoundland Trial Printings

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Then there was the Perkins Bacon Archives that Kasimir purchased from Robson Lowe in London. It was full of wonderful proofs and imperforates. Most of the listed varieties of Newfoundland came from this lot through K. Bileski.

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We found that in
1987, Robert H Pratt (ref 2) wrote that it was in June 1976 that he saw material belonging to Perkins
Bacon & Co in the possession of A. John Hubbard, who was the chairman of the board for Perkins Bacon
& Co. Furthermore, Pratt states that he saw sheets of errors, colour trials, printed on the gum-side,
erratic perforations, lathe-work examples, different paper types and sheets both un-gummed and
gummed. He does show samples he received from Hubbard. There is no mention by him of doing any
design size measurements.
Kas Bileski later acquired this same material from the estate of A. John Hubbard. Bileski noted
that this material had the same stamp design size as that made by Waterlow & Sons in 1941. He
proceeded to market this material as belonging to or originating from Waterlow & Sons. Interestingly
many of the samples that he sold had the stated date of production written on them, with the dates well
before 1941.
When we examined this material, we saw that it presented a detailed chronological timeline.
The products show, with their stated dates, that these developments were made by the printing processes
ongoing at Perkins Bacon & Co. Remember the material was acquired from the estate of A. John
Hubbard, the chairman of the board for the Perkins Bacon & Co. This development shows what was
required and necessary to stay competitive in the printing industry. With his working position in the
company, he became the recipient or keeper of these ongoing development attempts. Hubbard was also
a known stamp collector.