Golding & Company was an American manufacturer of platen printing presses and printers' tools, established in 1869 by William Hughson Golding (1845–1916)
[Golding Printing Presses]
. American Amateur Press Association. Retrieved 7 October 2010. in the
Fort Hill area of Boston, Massachusetts.
[The Pearl — A Jewel of a Press](_blank)
'' Type & Press'', Fall 1998. Retrieved from Amalgamated Printers' Association, 8 October 2010.
History
Before 1895, Golding hired
Henry Lewis Bullen to print its
house organ
A house organ (also variously known an in-house magazine, in-house publication, house journal, shop paper, plant paper, or employee magazine) is a magazine or periodical published by a company or organization for its customers, employees, union ...
, which increased sales of the Pearl.
[ In 1906, Golding's ]factories
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moved to Franklin, Massachusetts
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; its showroom
A plumbing fixture showroom, Canada, 1921
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Marketing location
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s remained in Boston.[
William Golding died in 1916, but his two sons continued the enterprise.][ In 1918, Golding was acquired by ]American Type Founders
American Type Founders (ATF) Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United States at the time. De Vinne, Theodore Low, ''The Practice of Typogr ...
(ATF).[ The Pearl continued to be made and sold by the Golding Press Division of ATF.][ In 1927, Thomson National Company (manufacturers of the Colt's Armory Press) bought Golding from ATF.][
In 1936, the Craftsmen Machinery Company, of ]Dedham, Massachusetts
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First settled by E ...
, somehow acquired jigs and patterns for the 7 x 11 Improved Pearl, selling it as the CMC Jobber until 1955.[
]
Printing presses
* Official (~1872)[Williams, Fred]
The Official Press
''Type & Press'', Spring 1982. Retrieved from Amalgamated Printers' Association, 8 October 2010.
* Pearl (1876)
* Improved Pearl (1895)
* Jobber
Archives
Th
business records of Golding & Co.
are held in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library
Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. It is part of the Harvard College Library, the library s ...
, Harvard University
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. The collection includes business records, patents, designs, and catalogues of Golding equipment.
References
Manufacturing companies based in Boston
Companies established in 1869
Type foundries
Printing press manufacturers
1869 establishments in Massachusetts
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Massachusetts
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