Art Deco Waterman Catalogue

[kavanagh]

My Dear Waterman Friends,

 

I was going through some of my old files on my PC Hard drive and found this 'Art Deco Waterman Catalogue'.

 

I have uploaded it to Google Drive and it can be downloaded using the following link:

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6AIBXlF_QtzZDA2S3dzblRYaUk

 

Enjoy

 

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/kavanagh/WatermanCatPage2_zpsx2hht1k0.jpg

[Tweel]

Thanks -- always fun to look at, and now I know that my Laureat is "Japanese Green". Does anyone know the date of this catalog?

 

BTW, I'd say that the illustrations are in the style of the 1950s, rather than Art Deco.

[Left FPN]

The linked catalogue is pre Carene so it is before 1997.

 

I have a similarly catalogue (actual) with the same backing graphics and fancy fonts but is undated. It contains the above two models plus the Emerald and Ruby Edsons so I can roughly date it to 1997+.

 

Later catalogues, 2000+, are dated very discretely along the inner spine of the last page.

[Tweel]

Thanks, Force. I seem to remember a catalog posted on FPN that showed the Carène as a (naturally) boat.

[Left FPN]

This one perhaps,

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

and then there was a sextant.

 

 

 

Strangely, it has also been shown as a building/spire.

 

 

[Xof72000]

The linked catalogue is pre Carene so it is before 1997.

 

 

 

 

The Edson has been launched in 1992, so the catalog can be dated between 1992 and 1997.

[Left FPN]

Yes and it would have included Emerald and Ruby so if we knew when they were released we could close the date down further.

[Tweel]

This one perhaps,

 

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or

 

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Aha -- I think it's the two-masted Carène that I remember.

 

Strangely, it has also been shown as a building/spire.

 

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The Transamerica Building in downtown San Francisco. The cartoonist Bill Griffith once drew it as a giant Zippy the Pinhead.

 

Thanks for the pictures.