| Back in the days when everyone used quill pens | | | | to 3 inches wide where the blotting paper was |
| and fountain pens the one thing that could be | | | | attached. Some of these rocker blotters were |
| found on every office or writing desk was an ink | | | | very ornate and made of wood, glass, silver or |
| blotter. Ink blotters were usually made of a soft | | | | brass and are also sought after by collectors.Why |
| absorbent paper formed into a card and were | | | | not start a collection of vintage ink blotter today |
| used to dry up excess ink.With the invention of | | | | from your home town or state. You can find |
| ballpoint pen in the 1950s, ink blotters disappeared | | | | them at local antique stores and flea markets but |
| from the average office desk. Today, these | | | | the one and only place to find a large selection of |
| vintage blotters, made in the 1930s and 1940s, | | | | vintage advertising ink blotters is eBay.To display |
| are very highly prized and sought after collectibles. | | | | your ink blotter collection use archival, acid free 3 |
| Ink Blotters were a very popular from of | | | | pocket protective pages that are used by |
| advertising that were often given away by | | | | currency or dollar bill collectors. Then store the |
| fountain pen manufacturers, banks, merchants | | | | pages in a three ring binder and lay the binder flat |
| and especially Insurance Companies. Antique Ink | | | | rather than upright. 3 pocket protective pages can |
| blotters were as common as business cards are | | | | be purchased at your local coin shop, on line or on |
| today.Written references to ink blotting paper in | | | | eBay. The art work on some ink blotters are |
| America have been found beginning in the late | | | | very beautiful and ornate. Take 2 or 3 and have |
| 1700s. It was not until the 1850s that blotting | | | | them matted and framed.Glyn Farber has |
| paper came into common use in America, when | | | | published a catalog of all known Hickey Brother |
| Joseph Parker and Son started manufacturing | | | | Cigar Store Tokens and co-authored a book |
| blotting paper. In the late 1800s, a patent was | | | | about Louisiana Trade Tokens. In addition he |
| issued for improved blotting paper which featured | | | | wrote several articles for The Token and Medal |
| a smooth surface on one side and a blotting | | | | Society (TAMS) and The National Token |
| surface on the other.Rocker blotters were an | | | | Collectors Association (NTCA). Glyn has been a |
| important piece of desk equipment from the late | | | | devoted collector of Louisiana Trade Tokens, |
| 1880s until the 1950s. This type of blotter had a | | | | Louisiana collectibles and Lake Charles, LA |
| handle 2 to 5 inches long and a rounded surface 2 | | | | postcards for almost 40 years. |