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- Circa - 1920s-1930s
- Advertiser - Brown Shoe Company
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- Size - 3-3/4" x 6-1/4"
- Price Guide - $15.00- $20.00 EX-NM)
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Buster Brown, a comic-strip
character created by Richard F.
Outcault, first appeared in the New
York Herald in 1902. It was Adopted as
the mascot of the Brown Shoe Company in
1904, Buster Brown, along with Mary
Jane, and with his dog Tige. The Brown
Shoe Co. was founded by George Warren
Brown in 1878, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Often included with advertisements,
ink blotters, like trade cards, were a
good way to attract potential
customers. Because people kept them on
their desks, the advertiser’s message
would always be in front of them, and
generate way more advertising
‘impressions’ than many of the
conventional trade cards. Ink blotters
were popular in the days of fountain
pens. They are typically thicker than
your standard trade card as they were
used to help wipe the excess ink from
the tips of the pen.
Most collectors consider sports themed ink blotters as a type of a trading
card like this one issued by Buster
Brown Shoes. The ink blotter depicts
three children with baseball equipment,
standing in front or a picket fence. A
boy with a catchers mitt, and mask, a
girl with baseball bat, an a boy with a
baseball and glove. The white fence has
the Buster Brown trademark logo, and
reads "Buster Brown Shoes - For Girls
- For
Boys" below it. A space below is
reserved for a local shoe store's
advertisement.
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Buster Brown Shoes Baseball
Theme Ink Blotter |
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Back of Buster Brown Shores
Ink Blotter |
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