Golding & Company is a defunct American type foundry

Type foundry

A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...

 established in 1869 by William Hughson Golding (1845-1916) in the Fort Hill area of Boston, Massachusetts.

History

Before 1895, Golding hired Henry Lewis Bullen to print its house organ

House organ

A house organ is a magazine or periodical published by a company for its customers or its employees...

 which increased sales of the Pearl. In 1906, Goldings factories moved to Franklin, Massachusetts

Franklin, Massachusetts

The Town of Franklin is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,635 at the 2010 census.-History:Franklin was first settled by Europeans in 1660 and was officially incorporated during the American Revolution. The town was formed from the western part of the town...

; showroom

Showroom

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s remained in Boston.

William Golding died in 1916 but his two sons continued the enterprise. In 1918, Golding was acquired by American Type Founders

American Type Founders

American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

 (ATF). The Pearl continued to be made and sold by the Golding Press Division of ATF. In 1927, Thomson National Company (manufacturers of Colt's Armory Press) bought Golding from ATF.

In 1936, the Craftsmen Machinery Company of Dedham, Massachusetts

Dedham, Massachusetts

Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood and on the southeast by...

somehow acquired jigs/patterns for the 7x11 Improved Pearl, selling them as the CMC Jobber until 1955.