[Life, December 12, 1955. Click for a larger view.]
For Pete’s sake: they’re ballpoint pens. Calm down, people, and reattach your heads to the appropriate bodies.
I think of “two-tone” as a phrasal adjective followed by a car. Two-tone cars looked spiffy, at least in my faint childhood remembering. These “tu-tone” pens, not so much. They remind me of the cheap ballpoints dispensed by auto-repair shops and insurance agents. Contrast Parker Jotters of the same era: they still look like great.
The young man on my right — calm down, young man. Young man, I don’t want to have to repeat myself.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Two-tone Papermates
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I wonder when delivery men stopped wearing white caps.
I’d like to know what that button on the side of the cap says.
Did Norman Rockwell illustrate this ad?
I can’t decipher the signature (under the head of the delivery man), but it’s not Rockwell’s. The art is very Rockwell-like.
Rockwell did several Parker ads. Maybe this ad was a response.
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