For most of my adult life I have pushed pens around in various guises.
Offices have changed but not completely. Some old friends from the dusty stationary drawer still remain.
I've put together a few bits of stationary here.
Can you name them readers?
ONE EACH PLEASE with the number!
A difficult choice with all those oh-so familiar objects, most of which I still have ready for use in some drawer or other. I'll go for #5 the carbon paper, which was also extremely useful for tracing over drawings. It also brings fond memories of my ca. 1910 Remington typewriter, which continued in service until well ito the digital age. And which was fun to leave in the kitchen during college parties, and see what drunken prose and poetry one found the next morning!
ReplyDeletebtw: sadly missing from your line-up is #6, the Letraset rub-down lettering! :)
Best -- Paul
Aah, Carbon Paper, That's right Paul. A thing of beauty. I love the idea of leaving a typewriter out at parties! Drunken wisdom abounded no doubt! Like you the inky paper meant a lot to me when younger. I used it to create multiple information sheets for my young mates in our 1970's Kung Fu dojo. Kung Fu Exam papers were reproduced this way too. Ah, the beautiful obsessions of youth! More recently I used carb paper to create copies of my first 'toys for sale' lists that I sent out in the post circa 1991. I think I have examples of all of the above! happy carbon days!
Deleteoops. The missing Letraset should be #7 of course.
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It rubbed itself out Paul with a self-correcting number 7! ha ha. I have missed out many treasures of stationary. Paper clips, guillotines and of course the thumb wetting sponge pad to name a few more!
DeleteDon't forget the Dymo label maker. I was fond of that!
DeleteYes! they were brill! I love the clicking sound they made as the letters were punched onto the tape Kev. They got used for labeling everything: files, folders, boxes, pots, even whole rooms! I saw lots of theses used as flat residents' name tags on door buzzers when I lived in Germany. I can't think of anything modern that's batter than this tool at doing its job! Wonder if Century 21 ever used one?
Delete1. The curiously named Treasury Tag.
ReplyDeleteThat's it Kev. We can all play at being part of HM Treasury with these. Fiddly as anything and only useful for bundles of paper with a hole in the corner! Well, maybe normal double punched paper would work too. When I was a teenage Insurance Clerk I loved throwing them at my feelow teenage clerks like little bolases!
Delete3 is a Bulldog Clip -some of us still use them!
ReplyDelete(not often I know the answer to one of these quizzes...)
Yep Andy, slam dunk. The good old bulldog - wonder of its called that outside of the UK? The Mighty Mo of the office, capable of holding anything together. Well done on your new found quiz success. Keep it up!
DeleteHere's another quiz, Woodsy - how do you spell 'stationery'? (Unless you meant your quiz wasn't going anywhere, in which case it'd be 'stationary'.) Yeah, I'm thinking of changing my name to 'Peter Pedant'.
ReplyDeleteha ha! Kid, I really didn't know that! I thought they were the same word! It does make sense to have at least one letter different or you could have a situation where non-moving office supplies would be stationary stationary! Thank your alter [or is it altar?] ego Peter for me! tee hee.
DeleteOoops... I'll fetch yah the Tippex, Woodsy :D. I used gallons of the stuff back in the old typewriter days of the last century. Saved me from many a troublesome typo.
ReplyDeleteha ha, tippex, what a great brand name Tone. I always preferred it to Snowpake. I recall being told that one of the Monkees was the heir to the Tippex empire. Michael Nesmith maybe? Is that right?
DeleteJust googled it. Yep Woodsy, you're absolutely right. Seems like Mike's mum was the inventor of the first correction fluid back in 1951. What a great story :)
Deleteha ha! Can't believe it's right Tone! Wonder of Mike benefited? It's fair to say that the Nesmiths have rewritten history!
ReplyDeleteOooooch... Yes Woodsy :D. And I bet they never go into liquidation... Oh sorry :D
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