What does a light pink hanky mean in the left pocket?

In the hanky code, light pink worn in the left pocket means: Small Toy User.

What does a light pink hanky mean in the right pocket?

In the hanky code, light pink worn in the right pocket means: Small Toy Receiver.

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HC-026 · LIGHT PINK · Historical · documented 1980–1989 · The 175 · 1980s record

Drop 1 · The RecordEdition of 25 per side · opens Wed 21 Oct 2026 · Family 48 hours early · closes Sun 1 Nov 2026

What does a Light Pink hanky mean?

Small Toys. Left pocket: Small Toy User. Right pocket: Small Toy Receiver.

Small Toys — LIGHT PINK hanky code print, left pocket: SMALL TOY USER — **Left pocket · gives**Small Toy User

Small Toys — LIGHT PINK hanky code print, right pocket: SMALL TOY SUB — **Right pocket · receives**Small Toy Receiver

ReferenceHC-026

ColourLIGHT PINK · #FFB3D9

Era1980-1989

OriginHistorical · documented 1980–1989

Where it sits in the story

Documented from 1980 in the extended bar charts, light pink in the left pocket told the room you were small toy user; in the right, small toy receiver. Recorded in the Damron charts of 1980 and Townsend’s Leatherman’s Handbook II in 1983. This colour belongs to the community that made it; the print is our specification of it.

Timeline stage: 1973 · Standardised across US cities. Read the full history →

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The swatchThe print at phone size with a name in the margin, sent phone to phone. Make it yours or make it for the person who should read you. No account, no email.

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Send a postcardA real postcard, printed and posted for you — HC-026, their name on it, in an envelope on your doormat or theirs. Unsigned, unnumbered. The impulse buy: no account beyond an address.

£15

Left · Small Toy User Right · Small Toy Sub

The Print · A3Giclée A3 on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm, posted flat by Prodigi, our print partner. Unsigned. Always on — ordered at will, no window, no clock — numbered in the Register in order of sale, with the Register QR printed in the margin.

£50

Print · left Print · right

The Print · the pairBoth pockets, posted flat together.

£90

The Print pair

The Edition · Family onlyGiclée on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm, A3, numbered and blind-stamped by the studio, entered in the Register and anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain. Drawn only from The 175 — the historical record — this code is one of them. 25 per side, released to members in dated drops, on a published escalator: nos 1–10 £300 · 11–20 £400 · 21–25 £500 — the price rises as it sells, stated in advance, verifiable in the Register.

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Drop 1 · The Record · Family early access Wed 21 Oct 2026 · opens Wed 21 Oct 2026 · closes Sun 1 Nov 2026.

Where it comes from. Documented in Larry Townsend’s The Leatherman’s Handbook II (1983) and the Bob Damron charts (1980). Worn in San Francisco leather bars from 1972.

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The match Send the right pocket — Small Toy Sub Send the left pocket — Small Toy User

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