G-S-E
Gavitt's  Stock  Exchange

ENDORSEMENTS

FROM LEADING JOURNALS
of the United States
The following was copied from
THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA
of New York City; the largest Drug Trade
Journal published in the United States.

G.S.E. the Latest Invention by Harry E. Gavitt.

With this issue of the Era we introduce to our readers another new invention which undoubtedly will interest the majority. This invention takes the form of a society card game and is called Gavitt's Stock Exchange, the inventor being Mr. Harry E. Gavitt, the efficient manager of the W. W. Gavitt Medical Co., manufacturing chemists of Topeka, Kansas. Mr Gavitt has been the originator of several excellent devices among which was a machine for the automatic feeding and sealing of envelopes at the rate of 15,000 per hour. Gavitt's Stock Ex - change is claimed by the inventor to be one of the most exciting card games of the day, reproducing upon a small scale the excitement and confusion generally witnessed in the great stock and grain pits of the world. The cards used for playing this game are entirely different from the regular cards which are generally used in card games, and it is the novelty with which they must be handled in playing that makes the game so interesting and exciting. –Sept. 3, 1903.

The following was clipped from
THE AMERICAN STATIONER
of New York City, the largest Book and
Stationery Journal published in the U.S.

The "G.S.E." or to give it its full title, "Gavitt's Stock Exchange," is a new game that is manufactured by the W. W. Gavitt Printing and Publishing Company, Topeka Kan. It is of the card order, but the cards are entirely different from those used in the ordinary card games. "G.S.E." is recommended for informal gatherings, college events, and for use at summer resorts, or in fact at any place where genuine amusement and fun are desired. The game can be played in the ordinary way, or players or sides may progress if it is so wished.– Aug. 29, 1903.
What Two Of The Largest Topeka Daily
Papers say of G.S.E (Gavitt's Stock
Exchange), the New Card Game.
The new card game known as Gavitt's Stock Exchange is having a great run in Topeka just now. Dealers are unable to supply the large demand.– State Journal, May 27, 1903.
The Gavitt Printing Company are having a great demand for their Gavitt's Stock Exchange railway playing cards in all parts of the east– State Journal, July 16, 1903.
THE GREAT SOCIETY game in the East is G. S. E. (Gavitt's Stock Exchange.)—Daily Capital Aug. 9, 1903.
There was an extra large number of informal (G.S.E.) Gavitt's Stock Exchange parties this week.—State Journal, Aug 29, 1903.
There has been over 2,000 sets of G.S.E. (Gavitt's Stock Exchange), the new card game, sold in Topeka in the last six months. The book stores claim it is one of the most popular games they have ever handled.—State Journal, Sept. 19, 1903.
The following was clipped from the Topeka State Journal
October 30, 1903, the leading daily paper in Kansas.
SECURES HIS PATENT.
The Game of "Stock Exchange" Is Now
Covered By U. S Patent.
Mr. Harry E. Gavitt was the first to Publish, Copyright
and Patent the Burlesque Stock Market Card Game.
This Game is Making a Great Hit
in the East.

Mr. Harry E. Gavitt has just received notice from his attorneys in Washington that his patent on the burlesque stock market card game, known as "Gavitt's Stock Exchange" (G.S.E.) was allowed.

When Mr. Gavitt first published, copyrighted and applied for a patent on this game, he did not have the slightest idea that it would prove to be such a rage among the college and society clubs throughout the United States.

Harry E. Gavitt is a son of W. W. Gavitt and is manager of the Gavitt Printing and Publishing Co., and is also manager of the W. W. Gavitt Medical Company, manufacturing chemists, of Topeka, Kas. It was his first idea in publishing this game to distribute them free as an advertising plan for the advertising of one of their well known remedies, known as Gavitt's System Regulator. The manner in which he worked the medical ad in the card game was pronounced to be a winner and a very clever system of advertising by many eastern advertising managers.

The first lot of these games he had published to be distributed amoung their 6,000 medical agents, and notified the agents to give them to their customers free. He also gave a few sets to his friends. After that the demand became so great for free sets he decided to make a small charge for them.

The demand increased all the more. He then decided to remove the medical ad from the cards, increase the price to 35c per set, using better stock and putting them up attractively for the trade. It was not long before the demand from book and stationery dealers from all parts of the United States was greater for the games than their printing plant could turn out. Additional machinery was continually added until they were able to fill all orders promptly.

The game spread so rapidly in eight months that it surprised Mr. Gavitt, but he evidently thought it a winner, for he began protecting his rights from the very first and now he has this game protected by copyrights, trade marks and U.S. patents.

Mr. Gavitt is a developer of ideas and owns several valuable patents along other lines, gotten up originally for his own use; they proved so successful, he had them patented. The most complicated of his inventions is his automatic office envelope feeding and sealing machine. This machine will seal 15,000 office envelops per hour.

His patent artificial horse tail dock holder, for doing horses' tails up in a stylish manner and giving them the appearance of being docked is a great success, and is used by many of the prominent horse owners in all eastern cities. He has other patents pending.—Topeka State Journal, October 30, 1903.