Sockl and Nathan

Sockl and Nathan was a British greeting card company and publishing company in the 19th century, with headquarters in London. It was founded by Victor Sockl and Saul Nathan and managed.

History

The company was a partnership between Saul and Nathan Victor Franz Theodor Sockl, a son of the painter Theodor Sockl and Clara Adelaide Sockl, born Soterius of Saxony home. Victor Sockl, his brother Carl and Carl's Sockl family had emigrated in the second half of the 19th century the Empire of Austria to the United Kingdom, most likely to avoid military service and to escape the unrest in Central Europe after the revolutions of 1848. Carl Sockl was an accountant of the company.

The company specialized in the reproduction of images. Your cards were printed by hand in Leipzig; a production method which preceded the mass production of greetings cards. The company, based in the 4 Hamsell Street, City of London, was for a time very successful and, among other British purveyor. The cards often wore no company name, but were only labeled with the word "copyright", as it was feared (short for Nathaniel ) discrimination and financial drawbacks due to the Jewish name " Nathan ".

The company was under the same name also a publisher. She has published picture books with children's poems.

After a fire had done in an adjacent building large-scale damage to her inventory, the company struggled for survival. Finally, it went downhill, mainly because of the competition from the emerging greeting cards industry, which is now mass-produced. The partners dissolved the company in February of 1897.

A collection of about 200 tickets remained privately owned by the Sockl family. In the late 1980s, seven cards were printed by the " Medici Society " for several years. In the 1990s, about 100 tickets were sold to an art dealer and in his gallery in Wimbledon, London, issued. The remaining 100 were donated to the " Ephemera Society " (Association for the occasional graphics). It is estimated that 53 cards are located in the extensive "Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection " and are cataloged in her book " A Gallery Of Greetings " (1992). The collection is now on display at the Manchester Metropolitan University as part of its collection of Victorian opportunity graphics, which are housed in the Sir Kenneth Green Library on the 'All Saints' campus.

Recording in public

" Sockl and Nathan " Greeting cards have been shown in magazines and journals of the time, especially in the 1880s. The new card concepts that were introduced by this company, also contained cards that were designed as autograph cards.