Editing Planchette (section)

==Decline and evolution==
[[File:Original ouija board.jpg|thumb|1891 Kennard Novelty Co. Ouija Board]]
{{See also|Ouija}}

Following the commercial introduction of the Ouija board by Charles Kennard's Kennard Novelty Company and acquisition of the talking board patent by his partner [[Elijah Bond]] on 1 July 1890,<ref>{{cite web |title=US Trademark Registration Number 0519636 under First Use in Commerce |url=http://tess2.uspto.gov/ |publisher=Tess2.uspto.gov }}</ref> automatic-writing planchettes took a secondary role to the suddenly popular Ouija board and the many imitators its success spawned. Though early press articles had dubbed the Ouija the "new planchette", the patentees were initially quick to differentiate their devices from classic automatic writers by pairing them with paddle-shaped, pencil-less pointers far different in shape from other planchettes of the period.<ref name="ouija1">{{cite web |title=Museum of Talking Boards|url=http://museumoftalkingboards.com|access-date=2012-01-16}}</ref> The design changes and focus on the elegantly varnished boards and their clearly stenciled letters arching across their fronts seem to have had the intended effect, and the items were enthusiastically welcomed by the public in much the same way planchettes had experienced their own craze some 23 years previously. From this point on, the pencil-equipped planchettes that had facilitated often-garbled spirit writing for nearly four decades were quickly shoved aside in favor of the cleaner, faster communications of these new "talking boards". Though writing planchettes would enjoy brief revivals in subsequent years as the Ouija's popularity similarly waxed and waned, by the 1930s only British toy companies such as Glevum Games continued to produce true writing planchettes in any worthwhile numbers. By the Ouija revival that followed the Second World War, true writing planchettes were no longer being manufactured in any significant numbers anywhere, having been finally completely taken over by the more popular Ouija as they faded into obscurity.<ref name="ouija2">{{cite web |title=WilliamFuld.com|url=http://williamfuld.com|access-date=2012-01-16}}</ref>