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Ok... call me dumb but what is blotter? What were they used for?


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Very nice Champion thermometer. I like anything Champion with the picture of the plug on it....Dale


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Check out the blotters listed in COTM. You should be able to tell what they are. They were used to clean up after fountain pens on checks, documents, etc...


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Ink blotters. They were used to blot or soak up the excess ink from fountain pens. No ballpoints back then.


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They were used in the days before ball point pens, when real ink was used with fountain pens and the type you just dipped in the ink! In order to handle the document, the ink had to be dry, and often, it was not! It was then that a blotter was used to soak up the excess ink, in order that the writing would dry faster, and the document could be handled!
They turned into an effective method of advertising for all sorts of companies, including the gas & oil industry!!!

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Picked up a few new gas sticks and added the Shell restroom key holder to my Texaco's. Plus, another matchbook cover to add to my collection. Not as many new sticks out-there right now, LOL.

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I added to my Sinclair cardboard sign collection this week...

This sign is 48" x 72":



I also added to my Sinclair poster collection this week.

They are all 28" x 43":


















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I also added a couple of COOL Goodyear posters...

They, too, are 28" x 43":




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Picked up these two local oil cans from a new Shop Talk member about an hour and a half from me. The Streett's is a can from the J.D. Streett Company that I have been trying to find for years. The Site can is also a St. Louis company. I love the art-deco style label design. Thanks, John.

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JJ - You got lots of answers to your questions from others, so I'd just like to finish your request and call you DUMB (lol)

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I like the Worlds fair poster the best ! Ed Shaver


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Hey Ed,

Yeah, that's my favorite also! I've missed a couple of auctions on this poster in the past...

I'm looking for all the promotional stuff that was used during the World's Fair... There are a few "sign up" items I don't have but I've purchased the other two large cardboard signs they used. Here are my two World's Fair signs:

48" x 72"

20" x 33"






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Hotrod, you should be aware by now that i started measurments for a scale , (1-24th ) model of the 1964 Worlds Fair Sinclair don't you ..... Yep , Wes Maxwell sent me everything he had on it . I still have an origional picture Bennett pumps sent to me . So , as I can get some other projects cleared , I can go to the fair ! Ed Shaver


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Pre 1927 Standard Oil "OHIO" 30 Inch

plus this from ebay...


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Hey Ed,

No, I had no idea you were constructing a minature World's Fair DINOLAND display... PRETTY COOL! I'd like to see it when you are constructing it and when it's finished!

Do you have a link to a thread on the subject? I searched around and couldn't locate anything...

You mentioned an original picture from Bennett... Is the picture of the "Space Age" gas station they had at the edge of the World's Fair? I have a Sinclair Monthly Magazine (Picture News) with a picture of that station on the cover of it and I have an ash tray with a picture of the gas station on it and a description on back...


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