If anybody is interested, I've just released a couple more scans of CS vintage colour Christmas advertising leaflets from 1935 & 36.

You can see them, and scans for leaflets of 1930, 1934 and 1937, by clicking here

Andy

Very nice, thanks for sharing

Hugely interesting, Andy. I'm squinting to read the model numbers, but what a beautiful page!


Many thanks, a new 'desktop' perhaps?


Greg

Thanks for the desktop suggestion, Greg!

I'll e-mail you third full-size files which should allow you to just about read everything without hurting your eyes!

Andy

Huge thanks, eyes now at rest, albeit rather wide!


Greg

Andy, thanks. These are very interesting. Can I have a large set too? I see that on some of the pens, the cap's top is flat. On others it tapers to a point. Was this time period a transitional stage of pen design? I'm thinking from flat top to tapered point?

Sure, I'll e-mail you third size files of the 35 & 36 leaflets.

The transition to the later pointed caps versus flat caps started around 1935, about the same time as the transition from ball clips to the now familiar diamond pattern clip, though the process seems very gradual up to the start of the war and mixtures of both types appear in advertisements of this period.

Andy