Type 54

Smith & Lister were Hatters and Milliners.

They operated at various times from:

    1 New Oxford Street,
    London WC1.

    17 & 36 Cannon Street,
    London E.C.

and

    43 & 44 Friday Street
    London E. C.

According to a Post Office Commercial Directory of 1865 they were:

“…wholesale straw hat manufacturers, 43 & 44 Friday street EC, & 36 Cannon street west EC”

1868. Unofficial underprint type 54 (over the gum) in black.

PP183 1d lake-red (SG 43 or G1)
Plates 120, 129, 134, 137, 138 and 151