Two more 4" blotter/trade cards from my ebay treasure trove of last month. This time: dogs. I need to figure out who the artist in this series is, as well as the name of the trade card manufacturer. No clues that I can find except for the "Style" number printed on each one.
Suggestions welcome!
Purchase (ebay) - "honeym845" = Arleen Willis, Suffern, NY - received 13 September 2019
Another kitten, this time on a blotter/trade card advertising the General Sign Company in Kansas City, Kansas. It's one of fourteen I acquired last month from Arleen Willis of Suffern, NY. Looks like they all came out of some sort of scrapbook, or salesman's sample book.
More kittens to come.
Purchase (ebay) - "honeym845" = Arleen Willis, Suffern, NY - received 13 September 2019
Staples was selling these laminated paper 3-ring binder inserts today; one side has a map of the United States and a ruler marked in inches, and the other side has a map of the world and a ruler marked in centimeters. I'm embarrassed to admit that I thought there were two separate sheets for sale (one each for the two different units of measure), and I bought two. My only consolation: they were cheap. And I love stationery supplies.
Purchase - Staples, Harvard Square - 6 October 2019
Who doesn't love kittens? These three don't look like they're worrying much about saving money, even though tomorrow may bring opportunity or ill fortune. (Just quoting from the text on this blotter. I don't wish the kittens any harm. I love kittens.)
This blotter is one of a set I acquired earlier this month from a great ebay vendor named Arleen, from Suffern, NY, who very generously threw in three extra blotters when she heard about my ruler collection. Many thanks, Arleen!
Purchase (ebay) - "honeym845" = Arleen Willis, Suffern, NY - received 14 September 2019
One of my colleagues made a recent trip to Taiwan, and came back with a present for me! This gold-colored ruler, in the shape of the island and in the photo below still in its packaging, came from the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Gift - Christopher Dupuis - 23 September 2019
Look at that beautiful ruler, stretched right across this trade card (not to scale)! This is one of my favorite styles of "advertising advertising," with great graphics and multiple typefaces.
Purchase (ebay) - "cartophilians" = Jose L. Rodriguez, Cheshire, CT - received 11 September 2019
Yesterday I added a fourth ruler-blotter from a 1930s union promoting union-made bread, and a closer look at the union insignia reveals the initials "B&CWIU of A (Bakery & Confectionery Workers). That makes sense! This new blotter features a limerick that includes the letter D and the word DELAWARE; the previous three feature (1) I and ID-OO, (2) R and ROOF, and (3) V and VALES. Now I have to figure out if the rest of the alphabet is out there somewhere. Suggestions welcome.
The three from this year's Labor Post can be seen here: https://www.bethsrulercollection.com/2019/09/union-blotters-for-labor-day.html .
Purchase (ebay) - "Cobwebtiques" = James Wallace, Belleville, IL - received 6 September 2019
This might have to be my new motto.
Purchase (etsy) - The ArchLine ("The Architectural Salvage & Tool Resource"), Drexel Hill, PA - received 6 September 2019
So far, my collection has three ruler blotters from this series of Union Label blotters, dating, I assume, from the mid-1930's. (Based on the NRA insignia on two of them.) I ordered a fourth one from ebay just this past weekend, so we'll have a new one from the same series for next year's Labor Day.
If anyone can figure out the significance of the VALES reference or the ID-OO joke, please let me know. There's something a little mysterious about the poetry on these blotters...
Purcase (ebay) - Ruby Bunge, Berger, MO - received 7 May 2016
Purchase (ebay) - "ajenterprises2", St. Louis, Missouri - received 17 January 2017
Gift - Thomas A. Horrocks; purchased from Peter L. Masi - books, Montague, MA - received 18 August 2019
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