The 1908 Smythson Pocket Diary

Happy New Year! Will you be starting 2012 with a new Smythson diary? Did you know – first introduced in 1908, our now iconic Panama diary (then known as the “Featherweight”) was specifically designed to fit a gentleman’s inside jacket pocket.

In 1924, the Wafer diary was created as a lady’s alternative to the “Featherweight”, designed to fit into a small handbag…

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This entry was posted on January 11, 2012 at 11:18 am and is filed under Archive, Diaries, Heritage, Men's Products. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “The 1908 Smythson Pocket Diary”

Betsy S. Says:
January 12, 2012 at 3:01 pm
purple memoranda for me!!!!!!!

~Bets

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