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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 October, 1926; August, 1927; and October, 1927. The blotters advertise "Remembrance Advertising." Apparently the maker of this series is C.W. Bloom of Brown & Bigelow on Milk Street in Boston. $36.69 from Carolyn Dias of Norfolk, VA, through eBay, August, '02.

Each long landscape-formatted blotter has a fable on the left. The October, 1926, blotter is a second copy. I had the blotter already. August presents a lovely crow in peacock feathers, with the moral "Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds." October features a bear and a wolf. The latter has a chicken stuffed under his jacket. The moral here is "Honesty is the best policy." I have no idea from which fable this scene or moral may have been supposed to come. The specifics of "Remembrance Advertising" enumerated earlier are no longer mentioned. I am getting close to bringing together the whole year of Bloom blotters!

Source

$36.69 from Carolyn Dias of Norfolk, VA, through eBay, August, '02.

Date

Collection

Carlson Fable Collection

Citation

“Three Bloom Blotters,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed November 16, 2024, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1188.

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