Antique 1910s Advertising Ink Blotter ✨ Needham Massachusetts Real Estate, Boston Land Ad, Lester Ralph Knapp Co Glamour Art 1940s_creamery_box and sideshow banners

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Each color required a separate plate or stone

and no hedging needed

and the controversy that followed him for the rest of his life — the newspapers of the day were not kind

Antique 1910s Advertising Ink Blotter ✨ Needham Massachusetts Real Estate, Boston Land Ad, Lester Ralph Knapp Co Glamour Art 1940s_creamery_box and sideshow bannersThe Little Blotter That Sold a Boston Suburb A hundred and more years ago, before a subdivision was sold with a website and a drone flyover, it was sold with something you could slip into an envelope or leave on a desk: a printed ink blotter. This is one of those a genuine advertising blotter from around 1910, made to promote building lots in Needham, on the leafy edge of Greater Boston, at the almost unimaginable rate of five cents a foot. As of