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Pin-up by Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, February 1961, #30-304-2

By Gil Elvgren, published c. 1943 This ink blotter is untitled but the pinup picture is Gil Elvgren’s painting titled “Dream Girl.”

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”

Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, September 1947, #36523

Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, September 1953, #33829

Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, September 1961, #30-305-9

Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, September 1948, #38529

Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, June 1950, #39526