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Ashy

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LePage's Gum
« on: Aug 23, 2018, 10:40:51 AM »
Do you remember those little bottles of glue with a red rubber spreader on top? A boon to anyone with a scrap book. We used to have one at home, usually kept it till the rubber doings went rotten.

Michael Rolls

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Re: LePage's Glue
« Reply #1 on: Aug 23, 2018, 10:43:54 AM »
If memory serves, that wasn't glue but gum.
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Re: LePage's Glue
« Reply #2 on: Aug 23, 2018, 10:54:03 AM »
I wouldn't argue with that, we used to call it gum. In all the pictures I can find, the makers call it Mucilage, I don't remember that at all.

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Re: LePage's Glue
« Reply #3 on: Aug 23, 2018, 10:55:25 AM »
Mucilage is a posh term for what we young oiks called gum. Haven't seen the word in many decades!
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Re: LePage's Glue
« Reply #4 on: Aug 23, 2018, 11:02:22 AM »
Haven't seen them since I was a child.. :o

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Re: LePage's Glue
« Reply #5 on: Aug 23, 2018, 11:07:24 AM »
Of course we would use a Pritt stick now!

Cassandra

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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #6 on: Aug 23, 2018, 11:19:45 AM »

I seem to remember it was called Lepages 'Grip - Spreader'?
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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #7 on: Aug 23, 2018, 12:00:31 PM »
We used to stick things in scrapbooks by making a paste with flour and water.
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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #8 on: Aug 23, 2018, 01:54:30 PM »
They're better known these days for making 'No More Nails'.
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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #9 on: Aug 23, 2018, 02:54:38 PM »
One commercially available tube adhesive is called 'sticks like s.hit'. I kid you not.
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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #10 on: Aug 23, 2018, 03:00:00 PM »
More important Information :)


Lepage’s a 145-year-old company no longer manufactures this particular glue, and split into an American and Canadian company back in the 40’s, but is still in business.
It was made from fish skin and was often referred to as fish glue
Wilson Nelson Le Page (the inventor of LePage’s) was ahead of his time when it came to marketing and is reported to have “spent a fortune” advertising his many inks, glues and lubricants
Between 1880-1887, more than 50 million bottles of LePage’s was sold around the world
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Ashy

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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #11 on: Aug 23, 2018, 03:47:39 PM »
What a sexy bottle that was too.

Floydian

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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #12 on: Aug 23, 2018, 04:37:31 PM »
I always remember watching 'blue peter' as a kid and wondering what the glue was that they used all the time because it stuck literally everything they used it on. The name on the tube was always blanked out. Years later i found out it was called copydex, big with carpet fitters apparently...
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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #13 on: Aug 23, 2018, 04:42:02 PM »
What a sexy bottle that was too.
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Re: LePage's Gum
« Reply #14 on: Aug 23, 2018, 04:54:28 PM »
we were possibly more sheltered than you Floydian
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