CHART
CHRONOLOGICAL
TABLE FOR DATING TUCK’S PRINTED PRODUCTS
| 1866 | Company founded |
| 1880 | Logo ‘Easel and Palette’ text: "The World's Art Service" |
| 1881 | The Company became "Raphael Tuck & Sons" |
| ±1893 | Establishing a New York branch, ±1900 to bigger quarters at 122-124 Fifth Avenue. |
| 1893 - 1901 | Queen Victoria: "London, Paris, New York". "Published by Appointment to her Majesty the Queen". "Publishers by Royal Warrant to ...". "Publishers by Special Appointment to ..." |
| 1895 | "Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd" |
| 1901 - 1910 | Edward VII: "London, Paris, New York" or "London, Paris, Berlin, New York and Montreal". "Publishers to Their Majesties the King and Queen Alexandra". "Publishers to Their Majesties the King and Queen". "Publishers to Their Majesties the King and Queen and to TRH the Prince and Princess of Wales". (Edward’s son George, married to Mary in 1893). |
| 1907 - 1913 | Branch in Montreal, 9-17 St Antoine Street. |
| 1907 - 1915 | Branch in Berlin, SW.48, Wilhelmstr. 106 |
| 1912 - 1914 | In an 1885 New York catalogue a Berlin branch is mentioned. Branch in Toronto (also from 6-6-1947 on?) |
| 1910 - 1915 | George
V and Mary: "London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Montreal". "To
Their Majesties the King and Queen and H.M. Queen Alexandra. Also:
“Publishers by Royal Appointment, In
Three Reigns”.
The statement of the three reigns probably has been in use up to 1936. The statement of "Their Majesties the King and Queen" may have been used in this period, see Dickens Centenary Zag-Zaw. |
| 1913 - 1925 | George V and Mary: London, Paris, New York". "To Their Majesties the King and Queen and H.M. Queen Alexandra". Alexandra died in 1925. |
| 1925 - 1936 | George V and Mary: "London, Paris, New York". "To Their Majesties the King and Queen". George V died in 1936. |
| 1935 | "To Their Majesties the King and Queen and to His Royal Highness the Price of Wales", on the Jubilee Picture Puzzle |
| 1936 ± 1947 | George VI and Elizabeth: "London, New York and Toronto". "The King and Queen and H.M. Queen Mary" or "Her Majesty Queen Mary". |
| 1947 - 1951 | George VI and Elizabeth: London, and Northampton, New York and Toronto". "The King and Queen and to H.M. Queen Mary" or "Her Majesty Queen Mary". Mary died in 1953, one year after her granddaughter Elizabeth became Queen. |
Books for the American market have been marked “New York, London, Paris” without reference to the reigning King or Queen.