Magic Marker Studio Colours

It´s very hard to find information about those markers. I guess they were one of the first layout markers ever. They were introduced to the market in the 1960s and have grown very popular for decades. The magic markers are produced by Royal Sovereign, Manchester. The Magic Markers come in two shapes: one is very unergonomic and stubby, and until the company changed the markers ink solvent to alcohol it came in a little glass flacon. The other one is the Magic Marker Slimgrip. The Slimgrip came in a long thin aluminum barrel; the color was indicated by a sticker on the markers barrel. After discontinuing the toluene/xylene ink formula, the barrel was made of plastic. In addition, the new slim markers have two tips, one broad and one fine. The name was changed to Magic Marker Twin Tip. The glass flacon of the stubby version was also replaced by plastic, but the shape of the marker remains.

In the early 1990s I had the chance to purchase a bunch of the old markers, but I took only one of the old ones… can´t remember why, I should have taken more…

All of the Magic Markers still work, with the exception of the old one.

Magic Marker. Note the old one with metal cap…

Glass-Bottle-Magic Marker

Magic Marker – the stubby one and the slimgrip version… in a 1980s layout book.

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