Advertisement for Superfine Linen Record, 1931

One thread seems to tie all of the Rolland Company Superfine Linen Record ads together: inscribing their oldest paper in history by comparing it to great inventions, historic events, or celebrities.

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The sign writing of the North American Indian has long been a source of interest to students of primitive races.

Superfine Linen Record

With the advent of paper in commercial quantities, primitive rule-of-thumb correspondence methods were speedily displaced.

In Canada, the peak of perfection was reached with the introduction of Superfine Linen Record, that distinguished all-rag paper now found in every secretary’s working equipment and in the record files of all big business.

Superfine Linen Record is guaranteed by the “R” Shield watermark by which you may also identify Rolland Antique, Earnscliffe Linen Bond, Colonial Bond, Mount Royal Bond and the popular general utility Service Bond.