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 values for more than 2,300 blotters. $22.95 postage paid.

Blotto! 2025 Update

A 40-page update with 30 full color pictures and a 2,500+ blotter checklist with recent values for more than 2,300 blotters. $22.95 postage paid in the U.S. International shipping can be arranged at cost.

$22.95

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Buy the 2021 original Blotto! plus the 2025 Update for discounted price of $39.95

Both guides are largely complementary as the original Blotto! has more information about blotter dating, grading and collecting in general plus 100 blotter pictures by leading pin-up artists, while the 2025 Update has a more comprehensive checklist (about 1000 more blotter listings) and more recent prices. It features 30 pin-up blotter pictures as well. Buy them both at nearly a 25% discount!

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The Wrong Nail

Pearl Frush for The Gerlach Barklow Co., c. 1950s

Up A Tree

Gil Elvgren, Brown & Bigelow, November 1966, 235-305-11

Glamorous

Pin-up by Jules Erbit, c. 1940s or 1950s

Shrink or Swim

Pin-up by Ted Withers for Brown & Bigelow, August 1956, #35648

Experience is a good teacher…

Earl Moran for Brown & Bigelow, c. June 1951, #30866

One of several ink blotters that feature Earl Moran’s pin-up art of Marilyn Monroe.

Reducing Waist

Pin-up by Zoe Mozert for Brown & Bigelow, December 1943, L 33152

Paid in Full

Pin-up by Ted Withers for Brown & Bigelow, c. November 1954, #33651

Girl in Green (untitled)

Pin-up by Earl Moran for Brown & Bigelow, c. November 1949, #39771

This ink blotter is part of an untitled series, but I believe the original painting by Moran was titled “Girl in Green.” There is also a variance of this blotter which has the phrase “I’m really glad that I have had the chance to stay awhile; but guess I’d better blot a letter and leave — Bye, Honey Chile.” This titled version seems less common.

Double In Hearts

Pin-up by Jerry “TN” Thompson, February 1956