Gnomenclature - The Hammacher Schlemmer Newsletter

Our Mad Men moment

An ad-that-wasn’t signifies the era-that-was

Oct 16 • Jason Toon

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Guess That Gizmo

Our new game challenges you to identify whatsits past and present

Oct 9 • Jason Toon

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Dinah Shore sings “Hammacher Schlemmer I Love You”

On Bing Crosby’s radio show, no less

Oct 2 • Jason Toon

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September 2026

Which 1957 clock are you?

What your favorite midcentury Hammacher timepiece says about you

Sep 25 • Jason Toon

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When The Office and Frasier made fun of us

Not to mention Chris Elliott and Family Guy

Sep 18 • Jason Toon

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Hot Sauna Time Machine

A 1960s classic returns to Hammacher, unbeknownst to us

Sep 11 • Jason Toon

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Mission to Moscow, 1959

A model kitchen makes Cold War history, and Hammacher is there

Sep 4 • Jason Toon

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August 2026

The first grind & brew coffeemaker

Hammacher was an early passenger on the coffee-snob express

Aug 28 • Jason Toon

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Hammacher takes Letterman

And I think we all know how painful that can be

Aug 21 • Jason Toon

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The Zero-Man Band

Our $54,000 automatic orchestra

Aug 14 • Jason Toon

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The High-Speed Potato Baker

How did it work? Where did it go?

Aug 7 • Jason Toon

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July 2026

Cocktail Party, 1955

Midcentury barware for getting sophisticatedly stewed

Jul 31 • Jason Toon

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