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Posted 10 months ago
TGBWC
(185 items)
I love collecting ink blotters. To me, they look like miniature billboards. Still relatively easy to find...even the earlier ones since these were produced in such large quantities.
Most sell for around $20-$30. The early ones (1930s) are book-valued at $75-$150 but even those can be purchased from time to time for about $25. You just need to keep looking.
The last photo shows a miniature gold wood frame that a fellow collector actually makes by hand for ink blotters. I just wished I remembered who he was because these are real neat to display your ink blotters in.
I think I own about 20 different ones now.
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Yep, I have about 15 so far and won't pay too much for them, I did see a 1934 blotter with the girl sitting on a towel, in an antique somewhere on our journeys around the country. I just wish I could remember where it was.
They sure are fun, I just grabbed a couple more recently too!!