Pin-up by Jerry “TN” Thompson, February 1956
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Inside Story
Pin-up by Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, February 1961, #30-304-2
Blonde in Pink
Pin-up by Fritz Willis, published by Brown & Bigelow, c. 1961, #31-384-7
Dream Girl
By Gil Elvgren, published c. 1943 This ink blotter is untitled but the pinup picture is Gil Elvgren’s painting titled “Dream Girl.”
Fantastic Females Series – Hello Ed baby…
Brown & Bigelow, c. 1964, 233-384-1
Clothes Spin
Pin-up by Bill Layne, published by Louis F. Dow Co., c. 1953, B-53049
I’ve Got A Pass Defense All My Own
K. O. Munson pin-up for Brown & Bigelow, October 1947, #36650
Even Santa can’t fill a stocking better than that
Pin-up by K. O. Munson for Brown & Bigelow, December 1946, #35652
I Was Afraid I’d End Up Like This
By K. O. Munson, Brown & Bigelow, December 1947, #36652
Picture Pretty
Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, December 1971, #230-304-12 This may have been one of the last pin-up ink blotters printed as I have not seen any from 1972 or later. Ball point pens were so prevalent by then that the need for ink blotters, other than when using fountain pens as an art formContinue reading “Picture Pretty”