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These two incomplete sticker sheets feature multiple multicolor Apple logo stickers. Each sheet measures 9 x 6 inches.
Each sheet has four different size logos that are die cut. Due to the “bleed” design of each sticker, the logos appear disproportional until removed from the sheet.
Unfortunately, neither of the sheets are complete and both have stickers removed.
The sticker sheets are dated 1986.
This glass paperweight measures 3.75 inches in diameter and is 5/8 inches thick. It features a smooth scalloped edge and is etched with an Apple logo and the characters, “KAATN ’91.”
This item was acquired from a person I believe to be a former Apple sales representative. Although I was unable to get specific information about this item, research indicates that this paperweight was possibly a memento after some version of executive coaching by consultant Alan Weiss who runs Summit Consulting Group, Inc. Weiss is author of “500 articles and 60 books, including his best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting.”
This training is still apparently offered by Summit Consulting Group as of 2021. Although Apple is not listed as a client, other well-known clients and the content of the coaching seems to match Apple’s culture in the early 1990s. Weiss describes this coaching as a “very intensive development experience combining my executive coaching models with entrepreneurial and solo practitioner needs: Supercharged Coaching.”
Weiss notes that he has “kiddingly dubbed” his Supercharged Coaching methodology “KAATN” or “kick ass and take names,” the cryptic abbreviation on this paperweight.
If this information can be substantiated or disproven by anyone with historic context, I’d appreciate it.
Sources: Alan Weiss (About, KAATN)
This shrink-wrapped package of round magnets feature an image of the original tangerine iBook and the words, “iMac to go. Introducing the iBook.” The magnet also includes the “Think Different” tagline used at the time along with a color-matched tangerine Apple logo.
The magnets are 3.5 inches diameter and there are 25 magnets in the package. The package also includes the original internal part number, L04107A (also printed on each magnet).
Source: Wikipedia
This button, manufactured by Button King, is 2 3/16 inches diameter and displays a red Apple logo and the text “I know a lot, but…I can keep a SECRET!”
The text is printed in a version of the Garamond Narrow Bold font, but it does not appear to be Apple’s official Apple Garamond font.
This button was presumably provided to employees at an event or time when NDA-type (non-disclosure agreement) information was shared.
As of 2021, Apple is still famous for their secrecy.
This luggage tag is white (though yellowing with age) with a red Apple logo and the logotype “Apple Computer, Inc.,” Apple’s official company name from 1977–2007. (In 2007 the company name changed to Apple, Inc.)
The luggage tag measures 4.25 x 2.25 inches and is just under 1/8 inch thick. It comes with a paper insert with lines to write in personal information on one side and directions for threading the included “durable spaghetti loop” on the back.
This luggage tag was manufactured by Action Line U.S.A.
Sources: Wikipedia
This triangle-shaped keychain is mostly black with a white printed Apple logo in the center. Each of the three equilateral corners has a different accent color (red, yellow, and green) with a silver keyring attached to each of the three corners.
The green corner is marked “MADE IN CHINA,” and each side is just over 2 inches long. The keychain is approximately 0.25 inch thick.
This mousepad was likely released around the same time as Apple released the mid-1980s TV commercial with the tagline, “The Power to Be Your Best.”
The commercial features a man standing behind a window pensively looking at office workers wondering which computer is most powerful. A co-worker suggests that the answer can be found in system specifications, but the man concludes, “I think the most powerful computer is the one that people actually use.” A voiceover ends with the multicolor Apple logo and the words, “Macintosh, the power to be your best.”
This white mousepad doesn’t quite deliver on the ideal of “the best” because the “T” in the tagline at the top is in a different font (a sans serif font) than the rest of the phrase, “The power to be your best.” (Although this may be an intentional design choice.) In addition, the tagline font is not Apple’s corporate font of the time, Apple Garamond, and clashes with the font below it.
The lower-left corner features a large multicolor Apple logo and the logotype Apple Computer, Inc. (Apple’s official company name from 1977 until 2007 when it dropped “Computer” from its moniker).
This mousepad is 9 inches wide, 7.75 inches tall, and 0.25 inches thick. The mousepad has rounded edges and uses a thick, black, textured rubber pad. The bottom is also printed with the manufacturing company, COMPUTER EXPRESSIONS, Philadelphia, PA.
Source: YouTube
This Business Card Holder is cut from green marble and features slots for seven stacks of business cards. The business card slots are tiered so each card stack is separated.
The front of the holder is engraved with an Apple logo that is painted gold. Below the Apple logo are engraved words that read “SOUTHERN OPERATIONS, Leading the way in the 90’s.”
The business card holder is 3.563 inches wide and 3.25 inches deep. The back of the holder is 4.25 inches tall and it tapers to a 1-inch face on the front.
While not an official Apple item, the company NeXT was an important part of Apple’s history. NeXT was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after he was forced out of Apple. NeXT created computer workstations that were intended for use in higher education and business and ran an innovative operating system called NeXTSTEP.
The first Internet web server was a NeXTcube used by Tim Berners-Lee.
NeXT stopped making hardware in 1993 and focused on software such as the programming environments of NeXTSTEP and WebObjects.
Apple purchased NeXT in 1997 and Steve Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor. Apple ported the NeXT operating system to the Macintosh platform and the implementation became the Mac OS X operating system.
This NeXT mousepad is primarily black and features the NeXT logo on a six-sided design. It measures 8.125 x 8.125 inches with a shape that is stylized to appear as a black cube (matching the NeXT logo designed by Paul Rand). The mousepad has a rubber base with a textured bottom surface that is 0.125 inches thick. The back of the mousepad has two stickers, the manufacturer (Data Pad from Orem, Utah) and the product name (“SPEED PAD”).
Sources: Wikipedia, Logo Design Love
This plastic luggage tag is printed on green translucent plastic and features the stylized image of a running person. The upper-right corner includes a silver Apple logo. The tag has a clear rubber loop that can be used to attach the tag to a luggage handle.
I do not recognize this specific design as it relates to an Apple product or service. If you have any history on this design, please contact me.
The luggage tag measures 4.25 x 2.25 inches.
