Schmitt Stix sticker
Schmitt Stix sticker
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- Description (Brief)
- Round skateboarding sticker is white with 'Schmitt Stix' printed in black and yellow in the center of the sticker. Paul Schmitt of PS Stix, owns and operates one of the largest and most successful skateboard manufacturing companies in the United States and is known to many in the industry as 'Professor Schmitt". For almost 30 years Schmitt’s company has been considered an innovative leader in design and manufacturing of high quality skateboards. Skateboard stickers have always played an important role in skateboard advertising especially in the late 1980s and early 90s when small skate companies were emerging.
- Skateboard stickers have always played an important role in skateboard advertising especially in the late 1980s and early 90s when small skate companies were emerging. Skate companies used this inexpensive and visually appealing media to advertise their companies, board models, skate contests, and skate teams. The stickers were often offered free through magazine offers and at skate shops where the most sought after were kept behind the counter.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- sticker, skateboarding
- skateboarding sticker
- date made
- 1980s
- user
- Schmitt, Paul
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- 2013.0224.09.03
- accession number
- 2013.0224
- catalog number
- 2013.0224.09.3
- subject
- skateboarding
- recreational
- Manufacturing
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Sports & Leisure
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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