Who invented stickers

There would be no gold stars stuck on those beautiful Sonatas! Perhaps they used the same adhesive that kept their mummies wrapped? Early stickers were used to decorate crates and make them more attractive during this time. These early stickers were stuck with gum glue. As with many products, nobody knows precisely who invented the sticker as we know it. Yet the first adhesive paper was actually invented by a British man called Sir Rowland Hill.

Because there was massive competition among European fruit sellers at the time, stickers were used on both sides of fruit crates, to make them stand out. Gill combined self-adhesive paper and day-glo ink to create the first ever bumper sticker. At first he faced many issues with the product, having found they faded very quickly due to the residue on the cars surface.

With the help from a nationwide advertising company they helped him pioneer the first vinyl stickers with adhesive backs that would stick to vehicle bumpers without fading. With the idea of putting stickers on the bumper of your vehicle was initially interpreted as a gimmick, it quickly grew in popularity and within a couple years even politicians were using them to help promote themselves in the run up to general elections by displaying voting details on the back of their cars, encouraging voters to do the same in the help that spreading the word would help encourage people to vote for them.

This early use of gaining widespread attention through stickers quickly caught the eye of large corporate companies who jumped on the bandwagon, realising the stickers potential to spread the word of their brand or message the sticker revolution was in full swing. The rise of sticker collecting came to be a multi million dollar industry in itself. Stickers are still used today on a global scale, available in more styles, shapes, sizes and designs than ever before.

From fluffy stickers to mirror stickers to 3D stickers, the multi billion dollar industry has created some of the most varied, diverse and unique products ever made.

Talk about a legacy that still carries on to this day and literally is a worldwide need. The other candidate for the first sticker is R. Stanton Avery, the founder of Avery Labels.

His invention was a little more forward in time so oftentimes he is suggested as a modern sticker developer. Still, it is said that he invented the first self-adhesive label in Either way, stickers, defined as self-adhesive labels, are undoubtedly an invention that truly changed the world from postage to product labeling forever. The difference in the time and the debate over who actually deserves credit is because of how each of these inventions worked.

These self-adhesive, vinyl stickers do not require any additional adhesive.