Perkins, Bacon - the Company and its Work
C. G. Harman, RDP, FRPSL President
Appendix A
| 1819 (Feb) | PERKINS & BACON Original partnership in Philadelphia. |
| 1819 (May) | PERKINS AND FAIRMAN An agreement signed in Philadelphia between Asa Spencer, mechanician, Jacob Perkins and Gideon Fairman hiring Spencer for three years. |
| 1819 (June) | Party arrives in the UK with seven American engravers and printers. |
| 1819 (Dec) | PERKINS, FAIRMAN & HEATH - Charles Heath becomes a partner. Offices at 29 Austin Friars. |
| 1820 (Sept) | Moved to 69 Fleet Street. |
| 1820 (Oct) | First investment by George Heath. |
| 1821 (Apr) | Charles Heath declared bankrupt but remains associated with the company. |
| 1821 (Sept) | Joshua Bacon is summoned from America and leaves Philadelphia on 8th September 1821. |
| 1821 (Dec) | Joshua Bacon starts work for the company. |
| 1822 | George Heath buys 25% of the shares from Perkins & Fairman. Gideon Fairman (engraver) and Asa Spencer (engineer) return to America. |
| 1822 (Nov) | PERKINS & HEATH |
| 1823 (Aug) | Henry Petch joins the company. |
| 1829 (Dec) | PERKINS & BACON - Joshua Bacon becomes a partner. |
| 1834 (Jul) | PERKINS, BACON & PETCH - Henry Petch becomes a partner. |
| 1838 | Charles Heath declared bankrupt for the second time. |
| 1849 (Jul) | Jacob Perkins dies. |
| 1852 (Jun) | Henry Petch dies. |
| 1853 (Mar) | PERKINS, BACON & CO - Shareholders Douglas Denon Heath (George Heath's third son), Henry Malden, Joshua Bacon, Margaret Ann Petch (Henry Petch's daughter) |
| 1863 (Oct) | Joshua Bacon dies. J. Perkins Bacon (Joshua Bacon's son) buys the Petch shareholding. |
| 1866 | J. Perkins Bacon now managing partner. |
| 1887 (May) | Shareholders Admiral Sir Leonard Heath, James Dunbar Heath (D.D. Heath's nephew), Charles Malden (Henry Malden's son), J. Perkins Bacon. |
| 1888 | J. Perkins Bacon retires. |
| 1905 | Company moves to Southwark Bridge Buildings. |
| 1906 (Feb) | PERKINS, BACON & COMPANY LTD - Previous Company in voluntary liquidation with James Dunbar Heath as liquidator. Directors James Dunbar Heath, Douglas Leonard Heath, Charles Rynd. |
| 1935 (Dec) | Company ceases to trade and goes into voluntary liquidation. Archives and records purchased by Charles Nissen & Co Ltd in association with Harry Nissen and Thomas Allen. Certain philatelic aspects and most of the records sold to The Royal Philatelic Society London. Bank note records were retained by the Nissen family. |
| 1935 | PERKINS BACON LTD. – NEW COMPANY BUT NO RELATION |
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