Vintage 1960s Secretary Decal 📝 Embla Crest Scroll Foil Sticker, Unopened

Remember Secretary Decals? ✨ Secretary Self-Stick Decal, Embla Crest, Sealed on Its Card

Size: 3 1/4" ~ Unopened, little to no wear. ~ It is unknown if the adhesive still works, as that is usually the first thing to fail.

A perfect little thank-you for the person who really runs the office! These are vintage 1960s Embla Crest self-stick decals reading SECRETARY, still sealed in their cellophane bags on the original hang cards. Highly collectible, and a poignant reminder of a time when we celebrated our community and their contributions.

SECRETARY runs around the ring, and in the center sits a rolled scroll with a pen pushed right through it, the point sticking out the bottom.

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.

Nobody's printing these little cards anymore. Once the sealed ones I have are gone, they will be very difficult to acquire.

🏷️ What's Printed on It

• SECRETARY (gold letters around the black ring)
• EMBLA CREST, EASY TO APPLY-SELF-STICK, 49¢ or 69¢ (on the hang card)

These came on more than one style of card. Some are solid pink, peach, orange or pale green. Others are cream with a red or a navy band across the top. Some are priced 49¢ and some 69¢. The card you get may be a different color than the one in the close-up.

✍️ The Keeper of Secrets

The word secretary goes back to the Medieval Latin secretarius, someone entrusted with secrets. By the 1940s secretaries had their own national association. H. A. Bufton Sr., who had run a "Better Letters" program in Kansas City for years, founded the National Secretaries Association in May 1942 and incorporated it in Missouri. Topeka, Kansas organized the very first chapter, and it still gets called the "Mother Chapter."

The association had an emblem of its own, and it's a different design. In 1959 its magazine described a lamp of learning with its rays lighting the world, and the letters B-L for Better Learning, Better Letters, Better Living. So the scroll and pen on these decals weren't any club's badge. They were made for any secretary at all.

🗓️ Secretaries Week

In the years these decals hung on the rack, the job finally got its own week. National Secretaries Week began in 1952, with its first observance June 1 to 7 and Wednesday, June 4 as National Secretaries Day. It was the work of the association's president, Mary Barrett, C. King Woodbridge of the Dictaphone Corporation, and public relations men Harry F. Klemfuss and Daren Ball of Young & Rubicam. Commerce Secretary Charles W. Sawyer proclaimed it. In 1955 it moved to the last full week of April. It became Professional Secretaries Week in 1981, when the association became Professional Secretaries International, and since 2000 it's been Administrative Professionals Week.

🏷️ Embla Crest

Embla Crest made a whole line of these self-stick emblems for states, cities, the armed services, lodges and the professions, and sold them on little hang cards for pocket change. I have one Embla Crest card that prints the Atlantic Emblem name and Walterboro right under the Embla Crest banner, as Atlantic Emblem Co. of Walterboro, South Carolina. That card is cream with a black band across the top, the same style as the banded Secretary cards. That card's five-digit ZIP code means it was printed in July 1963 or later, and its 803 phone number puts it before 1998, when the Lowcountry moved to 843. Walterboro is the seat of Colleton County, and its courthouse was designed by the well-known architect Robert Mills.

🏡 Display

It's a sweet gift for a secretary, an office manager or an administrative professional, and it looks great framed right on its card on a desk or an office wall.

Please refer to the pictures. It provides details and is considered part of the description for you.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to make this vintage piece of memorabilia a stunning addition to your room!