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This black mug features a stylized rainbow logo in colors reminiscent of Apple’s original six-color logo and the words “US Education Sales” printed in white in the Apple Garamond font, Apple’s corporate font from 1984–2003.
The mug was sent to Apple Employees who were part of the United States Apple Education Sales team in 2024.
Source: Wikipedia
This pen is primarily yellow with purple, green, and red accents. The pen is printed with a black Apple logotype in the font Apple Garamond, Apple’s corporate font at the time.
(My collection includes the same pen, but printed with Apple Educator Advantage Program contact information.)
Not to be confused with the Apple Pencil, this wooden Apple pencil is painted white and features the Apple logotype printed in Apple Garamond in bright red.
This product is featured on page 59 of the Spring 1993 Starting Line: Apple Marketing Communications Catalog. Its description reads:
Apple Pencil
Perfect for seminars, meetings, trade shows, and sales events, this item is the natural companion to Apple notepads. It’s the irresistible, old-fashioned, low-tech, number-two wooden-and-graphite pencil, complete with eraser and silkscreened Apple name in red. APL476
I was lucky to get about 30 of these pencils.
This pen is made by Bic and features a translucent plastic barrel and red accents. The pen is printed with a multicolor Apple logotype printed in Apple Garamond, Apple’s corporate font of the time.
The pen uses all the colors of the original 6-color Apple logo except yellow.
This pen features a gold-printed Apple logo and the Apple logotype printed in the Apple Garamond font, Apple’s corporate font of the time. The pen is accented in gold.
My collection includes a similar pen with the FileMaker logo. FileMaker is now known as Claris, an Apple company.
Sources: Claris
This set of neon-colored Bic pens have black caps and are printed with a black Apple logotype in Apple Garamond, Apple’s corporate font at the time.
The three neon colors include purple, green, and pink.
UPDATE: After I posted this originally, I discovered an eBay listing for Apple “color changing pens” that looked just like these. I tested them by grasping them for a few minutes, and found that they are, indeed, color changing with heat! I’m not sure if the effect has faded with age, but each of the three colors still fade. The last three photos show the effect.
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 set of Apple latters was used in the Chicago Apple Corporate Office in the early 1990s. At the time, Apple maintained a downtown Chicago office at 10 South Wacker Drive. My best guess is that the letters were displayed at some time between 1990–2003.
I purchased these on eBay in about 2003. The seller, presumably a former employee at this office, sent an envelope with the letters (pictured) indicating that Apple Enterprise Software was located at this office. At one time, 10 South Wacker Drive also housed Apple’s Chicago Executive Briefing Center. I personally visited the Chicago Executive Briefing Center on several occasions for education-related events, but I do not specifically remember seeing these letters mounted on a wall.
The five letters are made of textured aluminum and are about 4 mm thick. The front of the letters uses a vertically textured “grain” while the backs are flat aluminum. For reference, the “A” is approximately 4 inches tall and 3 inches wide. The back of each letter includes two or three threaded holes. The letters arrived with aluminum threaded posts that had been snipped off (although a few were missing). Each letter is hand-numbered on the back with a marker.
The letters are in Apple Garamond, the Apple corporate font from 1984–2003.
Source: Wikipedia
In the early- to mid-1990s, Apple included a Registration Card in the box that came with every Macintosh (in the brown box labeled “Macintosh Essentials”). In my experience setting up these early Macintosh computers, Apple allowed users who filled out these “official” registration cards to choose from a subscription to MacWorld magazine or a free mousepad. In our school computer labs, we usually opted for the free mousepads.
This is an example of the free mousepad Apple sent. It is 8.75×7 inches, light gray (to match the platinum color of Apple computers of the time). The mousepad is in two layers, light gray plastic on top and black textured foamy rubber on the bottom, approximately 0.125 inches thick. The design is the word Apple® in black type nearly 3 inches tall in the font Apple Garamond, Apple’s corporate identity font of the time.
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