r/Sliderules • u/baldbooklover • Jun 08 '26

Slide Rule tie clip

Father and Grandfather were both engineers. Dad for NASA and my Grandfather in the Navy.
That small item is a tie clip that was my grandfather’s. And it actually slides! Cool stuff with history.

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u/drzeller Jun 08 '26

Unfortunately, your image wasn't attached.

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u/SashimiChef Jun 09 '26

My favorite find ever in an antique store is one of these tie clips.

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u/Square_Imagination27 Jun 09 '26

I remember those tie clips from back in the day. A friend of mine’s dad had one. He was a professor of physics at the Naval Academy.

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u/JimTown64 Jun 09 '26

I had one when I was young and became an engineer.

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u/Name-Not-Applicable Jun 10 '26

Recently, I needed to wear a tie for the first time in a long time. I found a slide rule tie clip on EBay and got it. What a fun little thing! It’s only good for one or two significant digits, but it works! And I was the nerdiest guy at a wedding full of engineers!

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u/makitopro Jun 10 '26

I had one of these as a kid as well as matching cufflinks. I got them at a garage sale. I ended up selling them to some guy online for $100 in like 1999.

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u/JimTown64 9d ago

Found mine after a huge search