PROJECT SWORD: LABEL-BODIED

A good example of how Dymo labels appeared everywhere in the Sixties is this obscure but important footage of a Project SWORD toys exhibition in London, which we've seen before on MC.

The various SWORD toys held by the two ladies have embossed label strips stuck to them, although I can't tell what they say; possibly 4 characters on each. An exhibition stock reference of some kind? What do you think? I bet they were hard to get off when it was all over!

Worthy of note is the totally unique white-coloured Nuclear Ferry at the very start of the SWORD display. Since seeing this film a few years back I've come to regard this white ferry as maybe a prototype before Century 21 Toys released the final blue version, but this is pure supposition on my part. What do you reckon?

What else can you see in this footage?

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVAF0AA1XY8DDIO7HWY7BW5N7XGC-UK-DISPLAY-OF-SPACE-AGE-HONG-KONG-TOYS-OPENS-IN-LONDON/query/hong+kong+toy+display

DYMO: EVERYTHING CAN BE LABELLED

My Grandson got an electronic label maker at Christmas. 

I was fascinated by how much he loved this gift and it reminded me of how much I enjoyed printing labels back in the late Sixties. 

Mine were clunky plastic strips printed a letter at a time using a cogged letter dial. My Grandson's were smooth and flat paper strips printed using a handheld printer.

I labelled everything with my clunky titles, in various colours like red and blue. Drawers, boxes, toys and cartons, just like my Grandson is doing now 55 years on!

Regardless of the progress I was amazed at the name of the maker: Dymo, just like it was when I was a kid! Dymo must be THE name in label making machines.

You can re-visit the vintage printed feeling online here with Fuzzimo!

Did you have a label maker as a kid?