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'''Chas. Goodall & Son''' was a Victorian stationer and manufacturer, generally agreed to have been the first company to commercially produce Christmas cards, and to use the robin in Christmas card designs.

Chas. Goodall & Son was established in 1820 in Soho, London, later moving to Great College Street in Camden. The founder, Charles Goodall (1785-1851), came to London from Northampton as a child.

1801 He was apprenticed to J. W. Hunt, an old and established playing card manufacturer.In its heyday around 1900 some 75% of the UK's playing cards were printed in the company's Camden works. In 1922 the company merged with De La Rue. The new company kept the De La Rue name but the Goodall identifiers continued to be used for decades.

Among the artists who created cards for the Goodall firm were Charles H. Bennett, Alfred Crowquill, and Robert Charles Dudley.