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This is a business card I did for the late Jack Hawley, back in the 70s. Jack had a large waxed moustache, and his signature outfit was a three piece suit with a derby hat, a huge amethyst stickpin in his tie, and a one-pound pocket watch on a chain. The "pocket watch" was a small super-precise naval chonometer he had converted by machining a bow and a new crown for it.

The picture of Jack I did from a photo by Laurence L. Bradley (one of a set taken for Jack's Berkeley Councilman Campaign Calendar) using tracing paper and india ink. The text I did with rub-on letters, and the curliques are from a royalty-free Dover Books reproduction of an 1891 German catalog of modular lead type ornaments, done by copying and pasting various small sections.

If I were doing this today, I'd do it all digitally, and put the picture of Jack through steel-engraving-look filters.

Jack had a sly, deadpan, self-deprecating sense of humor, which shows in the motto, in the oversize stickpin and watch, and even in the use of his middle initial (a reference to Senator Jack S. Phogbound, a character in the comic strip Li'l Abner).

Description
This is a business card I did for the late Jack Hawley, back in the 70s. Jack had a large waxed moustache, and his signature outfit was a three piece suit with a derby hat, a huge amethyst stickpin in his tie, and a one-pound pocket watch on a chain. The "pocket watch" was a small super-precise naval chonometer he had converted by machining a bow and a new crown for it.

The picture of Jack I did from a photo by Laurence L. Bradley (one of a set taken for Jack's Berkeley Councilman Campaign Calendar) using tracing paper and india ink. The text I did with rub-on letters, and the curliques are from a royalty-free Dover Books reproduction of an 1891 German catalog of modular lead type ornaments, done by copying and pasting various small sections.

If I were doing this today, I'd do it all digitally, and put the picture of Jack through steel-engraving-look filters.

Jack had a sly, deadpan, self-deprecating sense of humor, which shows in the motto, in the oversize stickpin and watch, and even in the use of his middle initial (a reference to Senator Jack S. Phogbound, a character in the comic strip Li'l Abner).