JMI Information Pack for the Russell Hotel Trade Fair, August 1967

In August 1967, as a sort of fillip for its dealers, Thomas Organ arranged a European jamboree, timed to take in the BMII Trade Fair in London. One of the members of the tour was Don Miller, owner of Frank's Jewelry and Music in Graham, North Carolina. At the Fair, Don collected three wallets (among other things), kept over the years along with his Thomas Organ promotional material. One of the three - all are complete - is pictured below. A short piece on Don .

To date, stray items only from '67 Trade Fair wallets have turned up in the UK, and seemingly until now, in the USA too.

The Thomas Organ dealers, photographed before boarding their plane, Don somewhere in the crowd.

The main page on the Fair .

Detail from a photo of the JMI stand at the London Trade Fair, a small stack of wallets on the PA amplifier.

The wallet with Marauder brochure at front.

Below, the contents of the Trade Fair wallet: brochure for the Marauder Special guitar; flyers for the new ranges of organs and Gyrotone rotary speaker cabinets; the new JMI catalogues for amplifiers and guitars; wah-wah pedal demonstration flexi disk (removed from its backing card); select pages from the 1966 catalogue; "Vox Parade" double-sided "newsletter".