Historic Ads Gallery (Ii)

[simp]

I announced last time more than 3 year ago, when I got the 500 scan goal reached. Today I got the 1000th, adding this nice Dunhill-Namiki advertisement from '30s.

 

I have to thanks Armando Dabbene, one of the most prominent italian fountain pens collector, that sent to me his whole collection (hundreds of ADs) for scanning. I was thanks to him that I could reach the 1000 goal. But also many people from here sent me scans of their ads, and I want to thanks them also.

 

You can find the full gallery with all the scans here:

 

http://www.fountainpen.it/ADs

 

almost all of them are full resolution (300 or 600dpi). The ADs are classified by brand, and you can find links to all brand sub-galleries at the top of the page.

 

But using the semantic database that I installed some time ago, I could also classify them for the magazine where they were published, the country, the date, and the model (or the models) advertised. All these "properties" can be searched, in the bottom of each AD page there should be a fact box that allows a "semantic navigation". So you can search looking at them grouped by these properties. If it does not appear, as sometime happen, you can use the last link in the left sidebar (Browse properties).

 

The gallery is roughly chronologically ordered, as I used the date as the beginning of the name, but that number can be inaccurate because I still provide a date for each of them, also when I don't know it for sure. In that case I will mark it as a guess. But to get that you have to look at the information inside the page not the name. When I have an hint or I know the date, I explain inside the page how dating has been done, with the only exception of the ADs having the date imprinted in itself. I cared to write all explanation both in italian and english.

 

All of this can be shared, and freely reused in the wikipedia style. I will gladly add any ADs sent to me, and I will also grant write access to the wiki to anyone wanting to contribute.

 

Regards

Simone

[vickiehof]

Thank you for sharing this.

 

I have a few antique pens and have enjoyed seeing the advertisements from the time when they were hottest new invention.

[fiberdrunk]

Wow! That's so cool!

 

eta: love the Parker left-handed one! A hook-over lefty, even, like me!

Edited July 28, 2013 by fiberdrunk

[rochester21]

Wow, such a nice thing to do. Too bad it says "error 503" when i try the link

 

I have gathered myself a large number of photos with fountain pens(several gb), one day i`il make them all accessible to the public. I also have a few catalogs which will require scanning.

Edited July 28, 2013 by rochester21

[sargetalon]

Wow! Awesome ads. Thanks so much for sharing.

[Roger W.]

Simone;

 

Great effort! It has enough ads to be effective and the extra work in putting down models is commendable. I'm finishing up Sheaffer ads now that I will be putting up on my web site that will have around 500 ads but, it's a specialized project. Some of your 1920's Wahl ads I'd not seen before, I find the colored airplanes very attractive. As this is not a specialized area for me I will send you over a couple more that are in this theme.

 

Roger W.

[simp]

Wow, such a nice thing to do. Too bad it says "error 503" when i try the link

 

Server went down few hours last week, it should work now.

 

For your photos and catalogs I hope you can publish them soon! I'd like to see them.

 

Regards

Simone

[simp]

Simone;

 

Great effort! It has enough ads to be effective and the extra work in putting down models is commendable. I'm finishing up Sheaffer ads now that I will be putting up on my web site that will have around 500 ads but, it's a specialized project. Some of your 1920's Wahl ads I'd not seen before, I find the colored airplanes very attractive. As this is not a specialized area for me I will send you over a couple more that are in this theme.

 

Roger W.

Thanks for you appreciation, I'm glad you can find them useful.

 

When you'll publish yours let me know, I'll add proper links. I'm starting to search for other ads repository and add links the top of the page.

 

Simone

[Ernst Bitterman]

<p>Holy cats!  For those of us that like fiddly period detail, that's an AMAZING resource, and no small amount of labour. <img class="bbc_emoticon" src="https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/notworthy1.gif" title=":notworthy1:" /></p>

 

well... that will teach me not to edit out a minor typing error.

Edited July 30, 2013 by Ernst Bitterman

[simp]

For people eventually searching the page, I'm in the middle of a domain transfer, it will be back soon, but it's still temporarily available at the alternative address:

 

http://wiki.penciclopedia.it/Categoria:Ads

 

Simone