Category Archives: Mozert

Blotto! 2025 Update

Still as misguided as ever! An update to the original Blotto! issued in 2021 but with a substantially more comprehensive list of pin-up ink blotters with updated prices as well as featuring 30 new blotter pictures. NEW! 2025 Update edition: A 40-page update with 30 full color pictures and 2,500+ blotter checklist with recent valuesContinue reading “Blotto! 2025 Update”

Buell and Beer

Al Buell for The Osborne Co., c. 1940s, source: eBay One of the funny things about pinup advertising ink blotters is that they sometimes cross over into other collectible realms such as Marilyn Monroe collectibles, train memorabilia and in this case vintage beer brand collectibles or “breweriana.” This foursome of ink blotters advertising Heigh-Ho beerContinue reading “Buell and Beer”

Misguided Collectors’ Guide!

We have published an 80-page pin-up advertising ink blotter collectors guide, albeit an incomplete one, with more than 1,500 pin-up advertising blotters catalogued. The guide features 100 full-color pictures of pin-up advertising blotters from our personal collections as well as a checklist and useful tips on grading, collecting and determining the age of a blotter.Continue reading “Misguided Collectors’ Guide!”

Collecting Pin-up Advertising Ink Blotters

Pin-up advertising ink blotters are an affordable and interesting way to collect so called “good girl art” from the 1930s through 1970s. Advertising ink blotters were 9″x4″ or 6″x3″ cards mailed to customers who were supposed to place them on their office desks and blot ink from their fountain pens after use. Fountain pens wentContinue reading “Collecting Pin-up Advertising Ink Blotters”