Word: esterbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowds passing through the display saw copies of Ronson and Zippo lighters, Sheaffer and Parker pens, Bell & Howell movie projectors, Leica cameras, Esterbrook desk-pen sets, Revere Ware copper-bottomed saucepans, even a West German B.M.W. motorcycle. Some Japanese copies were so precise the parts were even interchangeable with foreign products. "There would be many more complaints if people only realized the full extent of the copying," said one trade official. "American electrical appliance makers may be due for an early shock. Japanese appliance manufacturers are rapidly nearing the stage of technical proficiency where facsimile copies will be possible...
Among the more experienced of the others are Nick Esterbrook at 147 and Andy Pettit at 157. Esterbrook previously wrestled at Milton and he gained one of the Yardling's three pins against the Engineers...