Talk:Gold Star Publications

What corporate entity was Gold Star Publications?

I can't find a UK company called "Gold Star Publications" that matches the descriptions given in the multiple sources on this matter. Gold Group International (incorporated 5 August 1965) was the Golds' main company, but does not seem to have any obvious relationship to any entity that might fit. However, the trading name of a company is not necessarily the name of the company (aka "trading as"), so this doesn't help much to find it. Does anyone know the legal entity that traded as GSP? — The Anome (talk) 23:16, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

More to support this:

From page 162 of David Gold's autobiography Solid Gold [1]:

"The business started out as G. Gold and Sons, but [...] we changed the name to Ralph Gold Booksellers and my brother became the Managing Director. Then [...] We altered the name once more, this time to Gold Star Publications [...]"

also, from page 298 ibid.:

"Everything changed the day [David Sullivan] telephoned and suggested he would hand over his distribution in return for us becoming joint publishers. It was a stroke of genius, and we asked ourselves why we hadn’t thought of it first. We did the deal on the telephone with no official agreement, just a letter of intent, and it altered the nature of our business overnight. We were no longer in competition but in co-operation, thus changing both our companies into substantial profit-making businesses."

— The Anome (talk) 23:48, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

GSP magazines listing

So far, I believe that GSP published the following magazines:

• Raider
• Rustler
• Parade (remarkably, a continuation of the original Parade (British magazine))
• Titbits (seemingly, not a continuation of Tit-Bits magazine, but taking its name)
• The Journal of Love
• Swish! (spanking)
• Girls in Uniform
• Whitehouse International
• New Direction
• Play Dames
• Lesbian Lusts
• Playbirds
• Derriere
• The Boss (femdom)
• Red Light
• Shaven Ravers (depilation)\
• Dom X Rated (cartoon, femdom)
• Late X Rated (rubber fetishism)
• Blue Telly (???)
• Miss Adventure (cartoon, erotic adventure)

This seems to be a list of their magazines as of 1996.

More to come... — The Anome (talk) 16:22, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Gadoline Publications

Vintage Fetish has some notes here on the entity "Gadoline Publications". This seems to suggest the following:

• 1967-1968: Gold Star Publications (the same company previously known as G. Gold and Sons and Ralph Gold Booksellers?)
• 1968-1971: Gadoline Publications
• 1972-?: "New" (or continuing) Gold Star Publications (with David Sullivan)

I'd also note that at one time GSP's office address seemed to have been "Gold Star Publications Limited, Gadoline House, Whyteleafe, Surrey", and various publications seem to have been listed as published by "Gadoline Limited".

It looks like Companies House's online records only go back 20 years for dissolved companies, so that's not much use for this. This National Archives link might help, as would searching The London Gazette.

— The Anome (talk) 16:41, 5 July 2022 (UTC)