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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 12262372, member: 1476&quot;]I asked a friend who has an impressive background in graphic design for his thoughts and he replied:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Well, I was thinking it was pre-Paul Rand&#039;s design since he wouldn&#039;t have used such an awkward typeface </i>[referring to the one on your desk plaque] <i>so that would be before 1956 or so.&nbsp;&nbsp; So if you buy that it&#039;s probably post-1947</i> [the date of the company&#039;s name change] <i>that would date it to 1948 or 1949.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Here&#039;s information on the design work Paul Rand did for IBM.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.paulrand.design/work/IBM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.paulrand.design/work/IBM.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.paulrand.design/work/IBM.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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