Vintage 1960s Georgia Tech Seal Decal 🐝 Metalical Foil Sticker, Progress and Service 1885

Remember Georgia Tech Seal Decals? ⚙️ Seal of the Georgia Institute of Technology Metallic Decal, Sealed on Its Card

Size: 3 1/4" ~ Factory sealed, little to no wear.

These are likely the last of their kind in the world, serving as a poignant reminder of a time when we celebrated our community and their contributions. This is the Georgia Tech seal in shiny metallic silver and black: a flaming torch on top of a shield, an arch on columns in the middle, a gear wheel behind it all and a ribbon reading PROGRESS AND SERVICE, with the school's full name and the year 1885 around the black ring.

It is unknown if the adhesive still works, as that is usually the first thing to fail. It may require assistance, also known as glue, to affix.

🏷️ What's Printed on It

• SEAL OF THE GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 1885
• PROGRESS AND SERVICE
• Card: METALICAL 49¢, CLEAN SURFACE, PEEL OFF, STICK ON

It comes on a yellow METALICAL card with an orange header, and the back of the card is plain.

🐝 Georgia Tech

On October 13, 1885, Georgia Governor Henry D. McDaniel signed the bill to create and fund a new school with $65,000 in state money, part of the New South effort to build an industrial economy in the South after the Civil War. The Georgia School of Technology opened in Atlanta in the fall of 1888 with just two buildings, one for classrooms and one with a shop, a foundry, a forge, a boiler room and an engine room, and at first it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering - all 129 students in that first class were studying it. By 1901 electrical, civil and chemical engineering had joined it. Today it's organized into seven colleges. It took its present name, the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1948 to reflect its growing focus on advanced research, and today it has campuses as far away as Savannah and Metz, France. In the fall of 2024 it passed Georgia State to become the biggest school in the University System of Georgia by enrollment. Its motto is right there on the seal: Progress and Service.

⚙️ The Seal

Tech first approved this seal in April 1918, and it's the school's oldest trademark. The design goes back to Professor Francis P. Smith, who ran the architecture department until 1922. That arch on the shield is the state symbol - the old university gate at Athens, the wrought-iron arch put up in 1858 and patterned after the Great Seal of Georgia. The flame on top stands for knowledge, and the gearwheel wrapped around it all stands for technology. Before the 1948 name change the ring read Georgia School of Technology, so the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY lettering on this one puts it after 1948. The seal has been redrawn several times since 1918, and the newest version, approved in August 2021, still carries the shield, the flame, the gearwheel and Progress and Service.

🏷️ Metalical

Decals like this sold for 49 cents on a Metalical card, with the instructions printed right across the top - clean surface, peel off, stick on - and they went on car windows, suitcases and dorm-room doors.

🏡 Display

It's a great gift for a Yellow Jacket, an engineer or anybody who ever cheered on the Ramblin' Wreck, and it looks sharp framed right on its card. The Ramblin' Wreck is a real car, too - a restored 1930 Ford Model A that leads the football team onto the field at home games, while Buzz, the Yellow Jacket mascot, keeps the crowd going.