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Albemarle Blotters 3.5 x 5.87

1950? Series of 12 Aesop's Fables. Two blotters 3½" x 5 7/8" including the text "One of a Series of 12 Aesop's Fables." TH, a sample of Albemarle Verigood Blotting, from Bermingham & Prosser Company, Paper Merchants, Kansas City, Missouri.  $3 from Connie Burtis, Sedalia, MO, through Ebay, Feb., '01.  CP, a sample of Albemarle Halftone Blotting, from John C. Streibich Company, Peoria 2, Illinois.  $1 from Joel Cotton, West Monroe, LA, through Ebay, Dec., '00.  Three blotters -- CP, "Horse and Stag," and "Bald Knight" -- from Shaugnessy-Kniep-Hawe Paper Company, St. Louis, for $4.95 each Roberta Bull, Murphy, NC, through eBay, Feb., 08.

Here is simply more evidence that Aesop shows up anywhere and everywhere. Of course, the fact that I have found four of the twelve blotters in this series means that I have to look for another ten!

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