Having spent some 15 years working on the view cards of Hertfordshire I decided I would try and find out more about this short lived St Albans Company, and the artists "Karaktus." This lead to a search for "F S" - who produced a large number of cards in the period 1906-7 in association with another short-lived company - the London View Company Ltd. The research revealed a complex network of companies and the evidence collected very strongly suggests that "F S" was a very prolific post card artist called Fred Spurgin, and it was very likely that he was also responsible for the Karaktus cards.

To help me keep track of the cards I set up a working catalogue and I feel it would be useful to put the information online, even if only a small part of it relates to Hertfordshire. In effect I have set up a subsidiary section to the main site - accessed via the "F S" Home button or directly as www,hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/FS.htm  The home page contains the story of my search and a contents list for the catalogue.