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Ink Blotters Printed by David Landis to Advertise his Print Shop

Before ballpoint pens became popular here in the 1940s, everyone wrote with fountain pens.  So everyone needed an ink blotter when their fountain pens overflowed, or wouldn't flow smoothly.

Buinesses advertised their companies on ink blotters, like business cards.  In addition to printing blotters for other companies, David Landis printed at least 50 different ink blotters to advertise his own printing business.  Here are a few of those Landis blotters.

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