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Three Bloom Blotters

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Title

Three Bloom Blotters

Description

1926 Three blotters almost 4" x 9" for the months of May, June, and July, 1927. The blotters advertise "Remembrance Advertising." Apparently the maker of this series is C.W. Bloom of Brown & Bigelow on Milk Street in Boston. $20 apiece from Carolyn Dias of Norfolk, VA, through eBay, Jan., '06.

Each long landscape-formatted blotter has a fable on the left. May has two beavers chipping away a bringing down a tree, with the moral "Whatever you do--do it with all your might." My, what things are attributed to dear old Aesop! June shows a monkey swinging upon a huge cluster of bananas, with the moral "Heaven helps those who help themselves." July has the same picture and moral that I have seen elsewhere: "Pride goes before a fall," with a scene depicting two dogs.

Source

$20 apiece from Carolyn Dias of Norfolk, VA, through eBay, Jan., '06.

Date

Collection

Carlson Fable Collection

Citation

“Three Bloom Blotters,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed December 16, 2024, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1187.

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