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Lable cutter/labler

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Joanne

Joanne Report 7 Mar 2008 16:04

Women in my mothers family were lable cutters and lablers in St Pancras in the 1889 census and also in 1901 census.
Please can anyone help me to find out exactly what this was or where?
Thanks for any help.
JO

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 7 Mar 2008 16:35

What is the name so we can have a look at the census? Are you sure it's lable cutter and not cable cutter or table cutter?

I've never heard of a lable cutter and I can't find a mention of it on the old occupation sites I've looked at.

Kath. x

Newby Kim

Newby Kim Report 7 Mar 2008 16:40

Hi Jo have googled this but not much comes up .. I would imagine that as printing at this time was letter press the labels would then be cut out using the same process .It is still in use today .The labelers would be the ones who literally stuck the labels onto Bottles ,boxes etc etc .There where a lot of printers in Pancras in the late 19th century .PS Offsett Litho printing in the 1960,s was the begining of the end for letterpress ...although carton manufacturers still use the old method for cutting ..
Kim

mgnv

mgnv Report 10 Mar 2008 10:13

It could also be labels in clothes. Either way, it is probably easier in some cases to make labels all along a continuous ribbon of cloth or paper, and then cut them into individual labels later.

Newby Kim

Newby Kim Report 10 Mar 2008 14:40

mgnv ,Not sure but you could be right , the process you are refering to is Flexographic printing .This was introduced in the late 1900,s but if that process was used I think it incorporated in- line cutting and finishers would not have been used to cut by hand as the process would have been too slow .PS early flexo inks contained arsenic so this process was mainly used to produce wallpaper , replacing screen printing .
Must admit I,m not sure if clothing had labels in th early 1900,s.
Kim :)))