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Sherdley ad: AHW designed Slim Jims, Chubbies, Merrymaker

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Anne:

--- Quote from: "Max" ---happenstance (is that a word??)
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It sure is Max:
Chambers gives: happenstance noun, N Amer something that happens by chance. ETYMOLOGY: 19c: happen + circumstance.

Max:
Now that's an Americanism I like!   Thanks Anne.   :D  :D

Heidimin:
Oh dear, sorry, Max - I didn't mean to sound miffed by your post. I'm always ready to be corrected. I've found that, whenever you think you've got something figured, life has a way of coming up with corrections. So best to sit back and enjoy them as a learning experience.

I think what I meant to say was "well I never, you live and learn, and thank you for going to the trouble of posting the pics".

Oh, and "happenstance" is a great word.

Heidimin:

--- Quote from: "DenCill" --- J&J would appear to have been advertising from the late-1930s as Sherdley's sole UK distributor. I'm not sure whether they also controlled the export market as well, but it is possible.
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I've just got my copy of the BH exhibition leaflet, and apparently until 1968 AHW was employed by J&J, who were responsible for design, packaging and marketing for Sherdley and then Ravenhead. In 1968, Ravenhead severed ties with J&J, bringing these functions in-house. AHW moved onto Ravenhead's staff until he retired in 1974.

Another theory: according to the ads David has dug out at BH, the chunkie design seems to have been launched in late 1964, when the Sherdley factory closed and production of the screen-printed glasses moved across to Ravenhead. I think it may have replaced the chubbie produced by Sherdley - I've not seen chubbies in any Ravenhead packaging or ads. But maybe someone can disprove this theory?

Personally, I much prefer the chubbie shape. But I do know from experience that it's quite fragile - I've had one fracture when I was trying to clean the inside.

Heidimin:
PS - re exports, most of my Sherdley/ Ravenhead glasses are unmarked. But I have one set of conicals, which came in the later pinky-purple Ravenhead carrypack, with the word England printed on them. So maybe that means they had started exporting? Or perhaps just playing the patriotic card at home?

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