3-074-563 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Price's Patent Candle Company Limited - display at the Amsterdam International Exhibition, 1883. Candles '...for which the Diploma of Honour (the highest in the class) has been awarded. The sketch, though touching upon some only of the manufactures of this Company, will no doubt be thought ample to justify the statement made at the outset, that Price's Company "produce a greater variety of other goods than any other Candle-making firm," and their old reputation, maintained as it is to-day, is a sufficient guarantee that the articles which they sell will be found as suitable as heretofore to the public needs, and of the same excellence of quality which has secured them hitherto so high a place in public estimation...In 1851 a new Candle-making material - Paraffin - made its appearance, and Price's Company were not slow to utilise the novelty...The finest Stearine Candles manufactured by Price's Company are called "Belmont Sperm" or "Best Stearine," and are well known in all export markets for their uniformly high quality...From the day when, in 1840, Mr. J. P. Wilson introduced for use in the illuminations in honour of the marriage of Queen Victoria the first cheap self-snuffing candle until now "Price's Composite" has been a household name'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.