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.
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.
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”).
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.
This stack of Apple logo stickers features the classic multicolor Apple logo and the logotype printed in Apple Garamond, Apple’s corporate font from 1984–2003.
The stickers are clear rectangles measuring 3.625 inches tall and 2 inches wide. (The stickers are not die-cut to match the logo outline like many other Apple logo stickers.) The sticker backing is beige. It is unknown if the backing was originally beige or if it has discolored over time.
This key light features a black Apple logo and the black Apple logotype printed in Apple Garamond, Apple’s corporate font from 1984–2003.
The light operates by squeezing the black base that causes an LED light to illuminate the clear plastic end that is printed with the logo. This key light is in its original box and has a silver keyring attached on a silver chain.
The light runs on two “189” style watch batteries. It measures 2 inches tall, 1.25 inches wide, and is 0.125 inch on the edge (thicker in the center).
Warning to collectors: The logo is alcohol-soluble (this one was unaffected!).
This Post-It note holder is made from white ceramic and features a printed classic multicolor Apple logo at the top center. The holder contains a custom-printed stack of Post-It notes with a red watermark Apple logo printed in the center of each note (the Post-Its are authentic Post-It brand).
The holder is 4.5 inches tall, 3.125 inches wide, and sits at an angle that tapers from 0.75 inch in the back to 0.25 inch in the front. The bottom of the holder is covered in a black, non-skid material. The holder is packaged in its original gold box.
The Post-Its are white (although they now discoloring with age) with a light watermark Apple logo printed in red. The Post-Its are the standard 3 x 3-inch square size.
This Apple Education pen and pencil set was manufactured in Germany by the Senator company. The set consists of a similarly designed white plastic pen and pencil with black accents and a black rubber grip. The sides of the pen and pencil are printed in the Apple Garamond font (Apple’s corporate font from 1984–2003) with “Apple Education ’93” and a compass symbol with a black Apple logo at the center.
The box from the set measures 6.875 inches tall, 1.75 inches wide, and 0.75 inches deep. The pen and pencil are clipped to a white plastic base.
According to their website, the company that manufactured this set is still in operation and recently celebrated their 100th anniversary: “senator products stand out because they represent a thorough concept targeting individualised brand presentation: a broad range of designs, dependable production and customised printing mean they offer a perfect match with your brand.”
