Paper Samples ☜

Some highlights from my small but collection of vintage paper company samples. These samples were intended primarily for the offset printing and design trades to showcase a new line of paper and were rarely made available to the public. These colorful promos usually come in the form of small booklets or folios, but occasionally manifest as posters, calendars, or extravagant box sets. Intended to show off a new line’s various colors, textures, and weights, these pieces are almost always elaborately designed and often incorporate creative use of die-cuts, folds, embossments, specialty inks, and other fancy embellishments.

If you have interesting paper samples from the 1950s to 80s that you’d like to sell or trade, please contact me. I’m interested in items from Strathmore, Champion, French, Gilbert, Hammermill, Linweave, Mohawk, and Springhill paper companies (to name just a few).