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 form or novelty, was essentially gone. I wonder how many of these were printed by Brown & Bigelow? My guess is quite a few less than in the 1950s and 1960s.

Are Any Warriors Around…

Earl Moran for Brown & Bigelow, December 1957, #36-315-12

Well Dressed

Ted Withers for Brown & Bigelow, c. June 1954, #33646

Good Looking

Ellen Segner for Louis F. Dow Co., November 1945, B 44043