Scarce Antique Chicago Printed String Co Cast Iron Ribbon Dispenser w/Roll yqz

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Scarce Antique Chicago Printed String Co Cast Iron Ribbon Dispenser w/Roll yqz:
$130.50

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Early 1900\'s ~ UNUSED Roll of Ribbon!!!

In this sale we have an original and scarce ribbon dispenser with a period roll of ribbon still wrapped and unused by the Chicago Printed String Co, dating to the early 1900\'s. Not only is the dispenser rare, but having a roll of wrapped ribbon still on the spool by the company, we that makes it even more special! If you scroll below the listing, you will find a great history we found on the company below!

Measuring overall approx. 11\" tall by 8-1/2\" by 6\", there is some age and paint wear, but overall we think it is in fantastic condition! So be sure to scroll through our many photos to capture all the details! A great piece to add to your collection, you don\'t want to miss out on this one! GOOD LUCK!

As found on the madeinchicagomuseum website (GREAT Site!)

Founded in Prague (yes, the one in Europe) in 1898, the business was originally known as the Victor Tape Company, and specialized in hats. Well, not hats, exactly—but the cotton bands

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that went around the perimeter of said hats. Since it was the turn of the century and everyone wore hats, business was good.

In 1915, company owner Charles Weiner made a bold leap to the New World, settling in Chicago at 2411 Clybourn Ave and re-branding his business the Chicago Printed String Company. Four years later, he partnered with Otto Vogl to incorporate the business, and while the men ostensibly still made cotton tape, they also had a pretty radical new vision of what that tape could accomplish. Specifically, they patented several forms of “advertising tape”—binding ribbon that simultaneously marketed a product or company. Their key early creations were “Print-Ad-String”—flat, customizable, cotton-yarn tape—and “Ribbonette,” an affordable alternative to silk and satin ribbons that quickly gained popularity with candy confectioners and high-grade textile manufacturers. You could select any color or style you wanted, and the Chicago Printed String Company would deliver.

CPSCo also found a cash cow in happy occasions—i.e., wrapping paper, ribbons and bows for gift-giving purposes among the general populace. The ribbon dispenser in our collection (complete with two colorful Ribbonette spools) helped crafty people quickly trim off the amount of colorful decorative binding they needed, without loose strands flying around the room and distracting house cats. You would also find ribbon holders in some offices, as companies took to sending out packages with their own custom binding on the outside.

With profits soaring, the Chicago Printed String Co. moved into its own new building at 2300 W. Logan Blvd. in the late 1920s. Soon they had over 20,000 customers on the books and a team of 30 salesmen scouring the country. Not resting on their laurels, Werner and Vogl systemically sought to solidify their empire—scooping up amusing, whimsical patents and suing companies that tried to copy their methods.

One fellow, in particular, a Mr. William A. Elbers, spent much of the 1930s trying to rip off the Chicago Printed String brand—with a weird, obsessive level of dedication. Working at random companies like the Milwaukee Printed String Co., United Printed String Co., and National Tinsel MFG Co., Elbers repeatedly tried to market products called “Tie-Ad-String,” “Tye-Ad-String,” and “Ribbontye.” Charles Weiner, in turn, kept taking Elbers to court, winning each and every time. One of the earliest suits, in fact—filed in 1930—related directly to the design of the company’s spool holder, which Elbers had also copied, right down to the “crinkled green” paint job. And yes, the spool holder in our collection was originally green before time had its say.

“The spoolholder is not like a container that is emptied and discarded,” court records of the 1930 case state, “but is a machine into which, by manipulation of certain parts, the loaded spool is inserted and the empty spool removed. …The spool and the holder are only used together, and should be considered together.”

By the 1950s, the next generation of the company became well known for its “Tie-Tie” brand of gift-wrapping, as seen in an ad below from a 1959 issue of Billboard Magazine. That same year, a column by Chicago Tribune columnist Ruth MacKay, “the White Collar Girl,” made mention of the Printed String Co.’s large number of young, female employees.

“You may not know it,” she wrote in the article from Sept. 16, 1959, “but while you’re in the land of nod, a staff of women is busily making ribbon in the early morning hours—for you to tie your Christmas presents. They work at the Armitage and Logan plants of Chicago Printed String Co. It seems like a page in long ago history when the first girl pages were introduced in metropolitan banks. Now a lot of bright youngsters get their start that way. . . . Which reminds me of the young miss asked by a personnel director for references who handed over a letter: To Whom It May Concern. Sara Blank worked for us one week and we’re satisfied.”

Latter period String Co. history gets more confusing. A website of a company called Fibertek, Inc. claims that the Chicago Printed String Co. actually went nomadic again in 1960 and relocated to Franklin, Tennessee, renaming itself CPS Industries. After several ownership changes, the company was then re-branded again as Fibertek in 1989. It should be noted, in bold font, that the Fibertek website hasn’t been updated since 2003, AND there are plenty of records of Chicago Printed String still operating its Logan Blvd. office into the 1970s. So, as is often the case, I open the floor up to readership to connect the dots on this one. What really became of the Chicago Printed String Company?!

I can at least tell you what became of their old factory. In this happy story from Preservation Chicago, the Art Deco building was actually saved from the wrecking ball at the last minute in 2004, and has since become a successful Logan Square retail space with a mattress store and a Panera. So… there ya go. The ribbon of time spools onward.

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Estimated shipping weight, (packaged) is 6 lbs 6 oz

in a 16 x 14 x 10 box

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