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Topic: Collecting compliments slips

Do you collect the compliments slips that you receive?

These days compliments slips are often the width of an A4 sheet of paper and one third of the height of an A4
sheet of paper.

William

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Re: Collecting compliments slips

Are you saying that you do? I have never paid any attention to them. They go straight into recycling.

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Re: Collecting compliments slips

William wrote:

These days compliments slips are often the width of an A4 sheet of paper and one third of the height of an A4 sheet of paper.

That is, an A4 Portrait sheet! A comp slip would be awfully long and thin if it were the width and one third of the height of an A4 Landscape sheet.

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Re: Collecting compliments slips

GB wrote:

Are you saying that you do.

Well, I don't have a collection book or anything like that, but I often make a point of not throwing them away, particularly if the paper is nice and/or the typography is nice. A signature on a compliments slip is also good.

I have only seen the collecting of compliments slips written about by someone other than me in an article in a printing magazine in the 1960s.

Collecting compliments slips got mentioned in a chapter of my first novel.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_064.pdf

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm

While writing this post I went and read the story from Chapter 51. It is over four years since I completed writing the novel, started in 2016.

William