Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:47:22 +0000

From: Jim Rader jrader[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]M-W.COM

Subject: Dopp kit and Doppelt again



I turned up more information on Dopp kit through a Nexis search.

( Dopp kit , by the way, got only 26 hits in the combined News and

Mags databases, which is a pittance in Nexis terms; I didn't try

other spellings, though.)



The following is from the Austin-American Statesman , March 28,

1994, Lifestyle section p. B5, in a query-to-the-paper columns

(byline--Jane S. Greig):

-"Dopp" is a registered trademark of a man's toiletry kit.

-The kit was developed by Charles Doppelt, a German immigrant who

-arrived in Chicago in the early 1900's. Doppelt was a designer of

-leather goods and was the first to patent this toilet kit for men's

-shaving paraphernalia and other personal items....

-Charles Doppelt's Co. was purchased by Samsonite in the early '70's.

-In 1979 Buxton acquired ownership of the trademark name "Dopp Kit"

-[though according to the Buxton webpage only "Dopp" is

-trademarked--JLR].



Similar information appears in the Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) for

April 26, 1996. Some Buxton wallets carrying the "Dopp" trademark

appear to have contained a small card with a snippet of history,

according to which "during World War II millions of GIs were issued

Dopp kits, forever implanting the name Dopp in the psyche of

America."



A letter from one Maida Mangiameli, Hawthorn Woods, IL, appeared in

the Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine for May 19, 1996:

-Regarding Bill Brashler's article about luggage in your Travel Part

-2 (March 17), my father Jerome Harris designed the original Dopp Kit.

- He worked for his uncle, Charles Doppelt at Charles Doppelt fine

-leather goods in Chicago, where the design was patented. There was,

-indeed, a time when the Dopp Kit was very well known....



Finally, the following was in the obituary column of the Chicago

Tribune for June 16, 1993: "Jerome Marovitz...retired controller

for Doppelt, a former manufacturer of leather goods, for more than 15

years. Once located at Cermark and Wabash, the company was known for

its Dopp kit, a travel case for toiletries."



Jim Rader