Charles Addams for Bankers Trust

A 1973 Bankers Trust ad promotes the bank's modern system of retrieving cancelled checks. The bank stores the checks on microfilm and can retrieve any check and provide a photocopy within 48 hours. The cumbersome alternative would be for each individual client company to store many checks on its own premises and thus lose valuable office space. A two-page color illustration by Charles Addams points out the potential shortcomings of such an antiquated business practice.

Charles Addams, After considering alternatives, top management at Saks Fifth Avenue decided that a more efficient method of check retrieval might be in order.
You'll find Check Retention at Bankers Trust
Advertisement for Bankers Trust, 1973

EBay scans by the Ad Store

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1973-Charles-Addams-Cartoon-Art-Saks-Fifth-Avenue-Bankers-Trust-Check-Ad-/400979606970?hash=item5d5c3f3dba

Note:  Be sure not to miss my earlier blog posts about the incomparable Charles Addams.

There's a fair amount of vintage advertising here as well.

01609