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Private Revenue Perfins of New South Wales An Elsmore Coath Howard production The authors would welcome your comments additions or input into this work A B C D E F G H J L M N P Q R S T V W Back to NSW 'Other' page Back to States Perfin index Back to Commercial Overprint index Section 2 - Commercial Overprints B -------------------------------------------------------- B A PTY LTD L M .a User: British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty Ltd Paint Manufacturer Address: Williamstown Rd, Fisherman's Bend, VIC Revenue Use: 1929-66 Numeral issue 3d Rarity Scale: 1929 Numeral
issue 3d R4 Background: *British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty Ltd (BALM) was first established in Sydney in 1918. The company purchased the business of several existing paint manufacturers, including Adelaide's Australasian United Paint Company. In 1955 the company changed its name, becoming BALM Paints Pty Ltd and later in 1964 they became BALM Paints Limited. In 1971 the paint manufacturer again changed its name, becoming Dulux Australia Ltd adopting the name of their most popular paint brand as the company name. By 2001 Dulux Australia was responsible for the production and distribution of paints under the brand names of Dulux, Walpamur, Berger, British Paints, Cabots, Acra Tex, Intergrain and Feast Watson, plus some generic brands. These paints were available to trade and consumers throughout Australia and some brands were sold overseas.
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Encyclopaedia of Science ------------------------------------------------------- B & B.a User: B & B[unknown] Address: Railway Use: 1929-66 Numeral issue 1/- Rarity Scale: 1929 Numeral issue 1/- R4 Background: Device: Handstamp Related Patterns: Nil ------------------------------------------------------- BEVILLES.a User: Bevilles Pty Ltd Homewares & Jewellery Retailer Address: 162 Pitt St, Sydney, NSW Revenue Use: 1929-66 Numeral issue 3d Rarity Scale: 1929 Numeral issue 3d R4 Background: *In 1934, Leo Beville and his wife Rae began trading in Bourke Street, Melbourne as homeware retailers, offering products such as blankets, chests, chandeliers, saucepans, dinner sets and more. In early 1950's, jewellery and diamond rings were introduced into the product line as Bevilles moved towards becoming a leading Melbourne city Jewellery and Homewares store. In the late 1970's, Keith and Deidre Beville, expanded the business from its single city location by establishing a shop in the recently opened Knox City shopping complex in Wantirna South in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Since the late 1990’s, Michelle and Gary Beville have expanded the business further and in 2012 the company had 29 retail outlets in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Device: Handstamp Related Patterns: Nil *Beville's Web site ------------------------------------------------------- BUCK'S.a User: Henry Buck [unconfirmed] Address: Queens
Walk, Melbourne, Vic Revenue Use: 1929-66 Numeral issue 3d Rarity Scale: 1929 Numeral issue 3d R4 Background: Henry Buck was born on the 26th November 1860 in Clerkenwell, London. He was the second child of Thomas, master electro-plater and later a corn factor. He moved to Yorkshire and was brought up in Danby. Henry learnt the soft goods trade at the age of thirteen and suffering from tuberculosis, migrated to New South Wales in 1887 finding a job as a grazier’s farm hand at ‘Manfred’ owned by the Tailor family near Euston. His fiancée Laura Jane Rose joined him but was repelled by life on a sheep station and persuaded Henry to move to Melbourne. On the 25th June 1887 at Armadale the couple married with Presbyterian forms. Henry worked as a bookbinder’s assistant, losing his job in 1890 after having the ambition to ask for a pay rise, probably a shilling a week. He went into business with a friend and found to his dismay that he had been duped. Rather than take legal action against his friend, Henry took over the shirting fabric shop, the fabrics and equipment. With Laura as the bookkeeper and two machinists, he learned the trade of shirt making, opening a shop on the 25th August 1890 in the fashionable Queen’s Walk off Swanston Street and Collins Street now known as Henry Buck Pty Ltd. By the turn of the century Henry had built a big factory on the outskirts of Melbourne to manufacture shirts, pyjamas and ties. He also diversified into warehousing and wholesaling and founded Wallace, Buck and Goodes Pty Ltd, the London Tie Co Pty Ltd, Beaucaire Knitting Mills Pty Ltd and Eyelets Pty Ltd. Henry was a respected figure in Melbourne where he belonged to the Commercial Travellers’ Association, the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Master Drapers’ Association of Victoria, as well as in London, where he was a member of the Portland Club. He was an authority on bridge and solo and belonged to the Melbourne Philharmonic Society. King George V appointed Henry Buck an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1920 for services to the community and business. As well as managing a business involved in retail, manufacturing and wholesaling, Henry had become famous for administering to thousands of returned troops, ferrying them around and providing food and shelter throughout the 1914-1918 war. Henry Buck died on the 7th of May 1933 in Marylebone, London and was survived by his wife and daughter. The company moved in 1963 to the new Colonial Mutual Building, Collins Street, where the plush atmosphere of the old store was re-created and remains to this day at 320 Collins Street, Melbourne. The company has strengthened its position in the marketplace over the years through expansion and consolidation, entrepreneurial initiatives and focusing on its’ 35-65 age group of affluent, corporate and professional, smartly dressed clients.
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