Schmitt Stix sticker
date: label: date made
content: 1980s
name: label: user
content: Schmitt, Paul
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Round skateboarding sticker is white with 'Schmitt Stix' printed in black and yellow in the center of the sticker. Paul Schmitt of PS Stix, owns and operates one of the largest and most successful skateboard manufacturing companies in the United States and is known to many in the industry as 'Professor Schmitt". For almost 30 years Schmitt’s company has been considered an innovative leader in design and manufacturing of high quality skateboards. Skateboard stickers have always played an important role in skateboard advertising especially in the late 1980s and early 90s when small skate companies were emerging.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Skateboard stickers have always played an important role in skateboard advertising especially in the late 1980s and early 90s when small skate companies were emerging. Skate companies used this inexpensive and visually appealing media to advertise their companies, board models, skate contests, and skate teams. The stickers were often offered free through magazine offers and at skate shops where the most sought after were kept behind the counter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Manufacturing
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0224.09.03
label: accession number
content: 2013.0224
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0224.09.3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sticker, skateboarding
label: Object Name
content: skateboarding sticker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm