Often imitated, never duplicated.

Posted by RRC on July 09, 2009 at 15:29

In Reply to: Often imitated, never duplicated. posted by Brian from Shawnee on July 09, 2009 at 07:39:

: Often imitated, never duplicated.

: A friend asked me if I'd ever heard this slogan, and of course I had. But then he asked what company or product used it, and I was stumped. I thought it might be Bulova Watch Company but an on-line search proved fruitless. Does anybody know what company first used this slogan? Is it even an advertising slogan at all? Thanks!

I have found "often imitated (but) never duplicated" used in a lot of different ad copy back to the 1920's but it doesn't seem to have been a trademarked slogan exclusive to one product or company as far as I have found. For example in 1928, I found ads for an English tailor and Blue Ribbon malt extract using the words in the copy of their ads.
Perhaps one of the other posters will do a better search.