A Pugh Mfg. Co. Toronto Gold Frame Postcard postmarked Oct 28, 1908. One of the major players in the postcard industry in early twentieth century Canada was the Pugh Manufacturing Co. Ltd. of Toronto. The Pugh Company was famous for its Gold Frame-View cards. In a 1907 advertisement in Canadian Druggist, this publishing company claimed to be able to show 7,000,000 cards to customers who cared to visit its booth at the Canadian National Exhibition, although puffery of this kind was common at the time. The company had postcard salesmen working all over the country. The manager of Pugh Manufacturing Co. was Thomas James Pugh. The first Pugh postcards may have appeared in 1907 although that is far from certain. As with many “Golden Age” postcard publishers, Pugh’s production had largely ceased by around 1912. It is unlikely that Pugh Manufacturing Co. or Pugh Specialty Co. actually manufactured any postcards. Like most other Canadian postcard “publishers” of the time, Pugh was a wholesaler, marketer and distributor of postcards – soliciting orders from local sellers, which, when received, were jobbed out to German and British printers. It is possible that some printing was done in Canada as well (the gold “frame view” cards may have been locally produced, for example), but there is no evidence that Pugh owned a printing press or designed or printed anything on its own. Some of the black-and-white cards were produced in Canada while all of the later colour cards were produced in England or Germany.